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[4thgenFolsomite]

 A person in Texas who had contact with Duncan is now being transported after showing symptoms.

[cw68]

so now someone in Sacramento is being tested for Ebola and has been placed in isolation.  And a second person in Texas who had contact with Duncan is now being transported after showing symptoms.

A second person? I'm only seeing one - an officer who was in the apartment, though he isn't showing symptoms of Ebola. He was admitted in an abundance of caution.

I don't see anything on a Sacramento case. Links?

[4thgenFolsomite]

I should have said "another person, one who had contact with Duncan..."  There is only one in Texas.  I'll see if I can find the Sacramento link.

 

update:  okay, I got tricked by an old link.  remember when this happened a few weeks ago and it turned out to be negative? 

 

I tried to copy in the link, but it wouldn't work.  It was a patient tested at a South Sacramento Kaiser.

[supermom]

A second person? I'm only seeing one - an officer who was in the apartment, though he isn't showing symptoms of Ebola. He was admitted in an abundance of caution.

I don't see anything on a Sacramento case. Links?

Crap, get out your pocket books.

 

cop unions gonna demand haz suits and respirators as a 'precaution' for an outbreak in CA

[cw68]

Crap, get out your pocket books.
 
cop unions gonna demand haz suits and respirators as a 'precaution' for an outbreak in CA

Individuals should demand precautions. If supervisors don't agree the. The supervisors should go in.

[bordercolliefan]

And they should demand, and receive, training. As shown by the case of the Spanish nurse, this disease requires incredibly diligent and skillful procedures, especially when it comes to removing protective gear and sanitizing oneself and one's equipment...

Hopefully every first responder in the country is getting protective gear and training now...

[nomad]

Great show on Nova last night called "Surviving Ebola." Several researchers have been working for a cure for over a decade. Still a long ways to go.

[Howdy]

Great show on Nova last night called "Surviving Ebola." Several researchers have been working for a cure for over a decade. Still a long ways to go.

 

Considering the CDC has 360 different strains of it, it could take a while. Its interesting to see that the last couple cases of the cop and the nurse had no contact with bodily fluids, but still came down with ebola or whatever this is. Doesn't sound like the people who are dying from this are "bleeding out", which would normally happen with ebola. 

[bordercolliefan]

I'm dismayed to see that Duncan's family is now claiming that he died because of racial bias.

I have no doubt this man received better care than any of us would, considering the international focus on this case. I also think it shows an appalling lack of gratitude to the health care workers at the hospital who literally put their lives at risk to care for him. I find it rather disingenuous that his family members are all prostrating themselves with grief and outrage--this is a man who gives new meaning to the term "absentee father." In short, I am forming a very negative impression of this family.

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[4thgenFolsomite]

yes and no, Border.  its hard to know without knowing all the facts.  he did, in fact, try to get admitted to hospital for treatment when he was just starting to show signs of illness.  They sent him home with an antibiotic where he progressively got worse over the next 10 days until I believe his nephew called the CDC and said, hey, we need some help here.  They finally took him into the hospital to start treatment when he was in far worse condition.  I don't think its racial bias, but not sure it wasn't.  Texas and all.  Did he get the best treatment available after he was admitted?  no doubt about that.  and he was the woman's baby daddy and a father.  his death matters to them.

[bordercolliefan]

No question the hospital made a mistake the first time he showed up. No evidence it was racial bias.

I think we have all had bad experiences at ERs. My daughter waited 1 1/2 hours with a concussion for her CAT scan... only to have one nurse ask another, "Oh, that hasn't been done yet?!"

Incompetence is, unfortunately, a feature of ERs and hospitals generally. Nothing to do with race.

"Baby daddy"?? I think you made my point better than I did.

[supermom]

well, you bias against a babies daddy is precisely the type of prejudice that they may feel sensitized to. A human being is a human being. 

 

on the other hand, none of us know the entire story of why he was an 'absent' father. 

 

quite telling is his desire to return, and the family's desire for him to return. So why not just turn off the negativity? Focus on the disease. 

 

50,000 people live in the confines of that city in Liberia that was cordoned off and no one is allowed to go in or out. 

 

Can you imagine being one of them?

[bordercolliefan]

I was sympathetic until this family began making unfounded accusations of racism against the doctors and nurses who put their lives on the line trying to save this man.  Can you imagine how these medical staff feel?

 

That is just wrong. 

 

We could have a separate debate about the "baby Daddy" phenomenon... my real point was that this man has not seen his son or "fiancée" for 16 years, yet they're immediately crying racism and ready to sue the hospital. Hmm.  We'll see what a Texas jury does with that! 

[mac_convert]

The man lied about his exposure to Ebola when he arrived to our country. The guy put a whole bunch of people at risk and used our healthcare system to try and cure him. Our government, more likely TX citizens, will be paying for this man's healthcare costs.

[supermom]

Again, you seem to be stuck on the negativity of one man and his issue. He is dead and they are grieving. 

How about focusing on the bigger picture?