EBOLA BREAKING NEWS: CDC officials rush to Newark Airport to meet Liberian passenger showing Ebo

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Medical Maven

Deceased
Dear Lord,

I beg you to give strength and courage to those in government who are still not corrupted, to those who must take things into their own hands to end this nightmare.

Amen
 
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FarmerJohn

Has No Life - Lives on TB
LightEcho said:
Obamacare requires free medical treatment for the uninsured. The doctors & hospitals don't get reimbursed. Anyone want to be a doctor?
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ERs have been required to provide emergency treatment since President Reagan signed the bill that authorized that policy.

That's all the free treatment that the uninsured get. They get 'stabilized,' nothing more.
 
Be Well

Be Well

may all be well
Medical Maven said:
Dear Lord,

I beg you to give strength and courage to those in government who are still not corrupted, to those who must take things into their own hands to end this nightmare.

Amen
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My prayer too! Well said, MM.


(Have you checked the B.S. thread yet?)
 
Flippper

Flippper

Time Traveler
I don't think EMT's are stupid, I did see what looked like mask strings on one of them. What if the guy was sick from medication, an allergy or has an ulcer? There are other things besides Ebola that can make you vomit, perhaps he didn't present with any other Ebola symptoms or he knew what made him throw up? Let's hope that's why it was fast and easy to determine he didn't have Ebola.
 
Kris Gandillon

Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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Ben Sunday said:
I got pissed at Fox News yakking that the patient didn't have Ebola...after one hour? I thought those tests took something on the order of three days.
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Actually, the test now takes under 6 hours. From the documented timeline for Duncan we have this:

Sept 30 - Blood sample received at 9:00 am CDT and at 1:22 pm CDT results positive for Ebola Zaire.

Still...in regards to this situation today at Newark Airport, they obviously made an "executive decision" that this guy didn't have Ebola.

The backstory, in case you haven't listened to the CNN clip Tom McDowell provided of the interview with the passenger sitting next to this guy, the passengers were quarantined for a few hours in two locations. One group who had already made it through customs and down to baggage claim were quarantined separate from the ones who were still upstairs trying to clear customs. Before they were allowed to leave, "out of an abundance of caution" the CDC passed out forms explaining Ebola and what to look for symptom-wise to all of the passengers on this flight. The passengers also had to fill out a contact form for the CDC providing their name, address, email, phone #, etc. And THAT is the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say.


ETA: I see this was also covered in posts 63 and 66 above in articles that I had not yet read since I started at the bottom of this thread.
 
Kris Gandillon

Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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FarmerJohn said:
ERs have been required to provide emergency treatment since President Reagan signed the bill that authorized that policy.

That's all the free treatment that the uninsured get. They get 'stabilized,' nothing more.
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I wonder what "getting stabilized" really means when you have Ebola? At what point are you considered stable? And then do they just send you on your way even though you still have Ebola? Or will they likely keep them for the duration...through either death or recovery? And as we have seen, if they do recover that is often a 3-4 week ordeal.


That's a whole lot of "free" treatment and sort of disrupts the rest of the hospital's operations to a certain extent...or at least you would think it would unless it was a facility designed to properly deal with this.
 
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R.Tist

Membership Revoked
I think we're looking at this situation backwards.

At best, stopping all U.S. visitation/immigration from Africa (ALL of Africa) might stop Ebola from reaching the U.S. But then there are all the other countries in the world to where natives of the affected countries could have gone and infected people - and that could be any country anywhere in the world.

What needs to be done (and should have been done months ago) is to declare a moratorium on ALL travel and transport of goods from anywhere in Africa until Ebola has been completely eradicated from that continent.

This is a GLOBAL issue and should be treated as such.

So, we'll all be short of grapes and bananas etc. for a while. I think we can live with that.

In point: Shut down THEIR borders.


Artie.

Edited to add: By all means, let's drop-ship medicine and food to these people, but if the countries who can demand that they (Africa) suspend ALL international travel until the epidemic is over (as in - OR ELSE) then Africa would have no choice but to comply, and we would be preventing a pandemic that could be disastrous on a GLOBAL scale.
 
psychgirl

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Ben Sunday said:
VERY disturbing situation!

I got pissed at Fox News yakking that the patient didn't have Ebola...after one hour? I thought those tests took something on the order of three days.

Sure...apologists and excuse makers will say it could be flu, malaria or a bunch of other maladies. That may well be true in some cases but a crowded airplane on the ground in a busy international airport is not the time or place to make that judgement.

Enough is enough! Close the damn borders AND temporarily invalidate all passports from Africa. Political correctness has obliterated common sense and most of us are not prepared for the consequences thereof.
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Yes, the major news shows piss me off too , but if you watch Bill OReilly regularly, he is VERY PISSED about our gov NOT stopping flights from infected areas. He's one of a few that have been pounding the drum pretty hard, thankfully.
 
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