Good column on Ebola hysteria

[LibraryLady]

Way to go, Steve......

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/steve-blow/20141018-blow-a-word-of-caution-on-bits-of-wisdom.ece

[grouchy]

Yes!

[planosteve]

Blow is right. But, 2 people did catch it who were suited up in the prescribed garb designed to protect them. Or did they?
How sure are they that this was Ebola?

[glenn/dallas]

Somewhere in todays DMN there is a statement "3,000-50,000 die yearly in the USA, from influenza, one person has died from Ebola" Why the panic ?

[BigTex]

Remember the wall-to-wall TV coverage complete with helicopter shots and BREAKING NEWS graphics? There's where the panic comes from. Imagine if they did that for every case of the flu.

[John in Plano]

Blow is right. But, 2 people did catch it who were suited up in the prescribed garb designed to protect them. Or did they?
How sure are they that this was Ebola?

For 2 days no suits were worn per the DMNs, I haven't read/heard if the 2 nurses were infected then.


Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records.


http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014 ... ient.html/

[kent]

and what has happened to the second nurse?

[LibraryLady]

and what has happened to the second nurse?

She is in the hospital and has indicated that the hospital is NOT to give out any information.
The family has hired an attorney.
IMO, the family is trying to turn off all the comments about how foolish the nurse and family behaved. Her mother (who was told to be in isolation) hopped on a plane and is in Dallas....She came here to "be with her daughter"...and was probably surprised to learn that she was slapped into isolation and not allowed to be with her daughter. IMO, the family has no regard for the terms of "quarantine" and no regard for "stay away from others." Add my vote to "self centered" and "rules don't apply to me" and "foolish" as an evaluation of the family.

[BigTex]

I wonder where they learned that kind of behavior.

[ann jusko]

I just got back from having a heart echo ultrasound. The first thing they did was make me fill out a questionnaire.

Have you traveled to any western African country in the last month?
Do you have a fever?
Do you have a headache?
Do you have an upset stomach?

and on and on

I remarked "That was quick." He said "We've had it a week."

[BillB]

I just got back from taking my wife to her doctor.
The nurse told us that, last week, they had a woman who answered "yes" to all the symptoms questions and she had flown with Amber Vinson.
They went into panic mode and called the "infectious disease team" (whatever that is). They came, wrapped her in plastic and took her away.
When the patients figured out what was going on they all stampeded out of the office and waiting room.
The woman tested negative, but they didn't find out until a day or so later.

[LibraryLady]

Online friends tell me that in other states they are being asked:
Have you been in Africa recently?
Have you flown to Dallas or Atlanta recently?
as part of the scenero.

[BigTex]

Sounds like the doctor's office acted appropriately.

And I filled out one of those questionnaires last Friday.

[grouchy]

I had cataract surgery yesrerday at a small surgi
cal center in Waxahachie. I had four members of te
Staff ask me the same type of questions.

[jellowrestling]

Flew out of state this weekend, and sat next to a nurse who worked at Parkland. As far as "protocols"? She said what I think we all suspected: there were no protocols from the CDC.

When we got back to Love Field, I saw three people with hospital masks.