EBOLA Gov Perry announced the creation of the Texas Task Force on Infection Disease Preparedness

[Rayjay]

Kinda a couple weeks late........

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/06/perry-announces-infectious-disease-task-force/16807813/

AUSTIN -- At a press conference Monday in Austin, Gov. Rick Perry announced the creation of the Texas Task Force on Infection Disease Preparedness and Response, a group aimed to prepare for pandemic disease such as the Ebola virus in Texas.

Perry named Dr. Brett P. Giroir as director of the task force, with Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Dr. Kyle Janek and Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Dr. David Lakey serving on the task force as well.

Other members of the task force include doctors, professors and representatives for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Division of Emergency Management, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Education Agency.

Perry also called on federal officials to implement screening procedures at all U.S. points of entry. Screeners would take the temperature of travelers and conduct other assessments to determine their overall health.

He says the task force will develop rapid-response plans when an outbreak is confirmed in the state.

 

[TheSearcher]

Kinda a couple weeks late........

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/06/perry-announces-infectious-disease-task-force/16807813/

AUSTIN -- At a press conference Monday in Austin, Gov. Rick Perry announced the creation of the Texas Task Force on Infection Disease Preparedness and Response, a group aimed to prepare for pandemic disease such as the Ebola virus in Texas.

Perry named Dr. Brett P. Giroir as director of the task force, with Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Dr. Kyle Janek and Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Dr. David Lakey serving on the task force as well.

Other members of the task force include doctors, professors and representatives for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Division of Emergency Management, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Education Agency.

Perry also called on federal officials to implement screening procedures at all U.S. points of entry. Screeners would take the temperature of travelers and conduct other assessments to determine their overall health.

He says the task force will develop rapid-response plans when an outbreak is confirmed in the state.

Has any other state done this? I admit that yes, it should have happened already, but then again, the CDC is supposed to handle this sort of thing.

 

[ginnie6]

I see this kind of the same way I see committees at church....I'm Southern Baptist and we have committees to have committees. You meet several times to talk about what to talk about long before anything is ever done. The only plus to this is we get to eat at every single meeting......

 

[Rayjay]

I was actually once the Chairman of a Committee to get rid of committees.... I kid you not.... we got rid of about 15

 

[Mac]

It's pretty complete ... tons of medial experts as well as the top head of Transportation, Public Safety (State Police), Emergency Management, and Adjutant General (Texas National Guard)

 

[night driver]

It takes about a week to put this sort of thing together in a non-wartime framework.

Gov Good Hair is actually running at the front of the wave on this, I believe.


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Though it won't be long before we're handling these sorts of things IN a Wartime environment.

 

[33dInd]

well,
at least Perry has a pair of balls and is going ahead and doing what the feds, CDC and chief fool wont.

so whats the rub

 

[Be Well]

well,
at least Perry has a pair of balls and is going ahead and doing what the feds, CDC and chief fool wont.

so whats the rub

Exactly!

 

[night driver]

Deep down, at the bottom of the Port and after the last ash has fallen from his Partagas Gov Perry remembers his Texas Heritage as a Republic. And on occasion he decides to act like a reasonable CEO IN CHARGE of a Republic and do Republic sorts of things.

 

[sassy]

Has any other state done this? I admit that yes, it should have happened already, but then again, the CDC is supposed to handle this sort of thing.

I'm thinking when he met with CDC and similar authorities he became concerned that they don't know what they are doing?
So, he decided to start his own task force to make sure things are done correctly. ?? Maybe.

 

[Housecarl]

I'm thinking when he met with CDC and similar authorities he became concerned that they don't know what they are doing?
So, he decided to start his own task force to make sure things are done correctly. ?? Maybe.

The "last straw" as far as I'm concerned was the handling of the "clean up" at the apartment complex and the "isolation" of the immediate contacts that the patient had.

There were multiple breeches of basic practices that the CDC should have been completely on top of like a wet blanket.

 

[TheSearcher]

I'm thinking when he met with CDC and similar authorities he became concerned that they don't know what they are doing?
So, he decided to start his own task force to make sure things are done correctly. ?? Maybe.

Might could be.

It just seems that the guy can't do anything right. Perry could do life-saving CPR on their mom, and somebody would say "well, yeah, you're just trying to get votes"...

 

[TheSearcher]

Deep down, at the bottom of the Port and after the last ash has fallen from his Partagas Gov Perry remembers his Texas Heritage as a Republic. And on occasion he decides to act like a reasonable CEO IN CHARGE of a Republic and do Republic sorts of things.

In that regard, that's better-than-average for a politician.

 

[Shacknasty Shagrat]

And other than keep the borders open for travel from infected countries and send several thousand Marines to rebuild the African continent, what has Mr. Obama done, or is doing , or is even planning to do to protect his homeland?
He might withdraw his crony capitalist and occasional Doctor pal from consideration as Surgeon General and get a qualified, non political hack to take on the job.
SS

 

[Illini Warrior]

you trust anyone at the CDC that answers to Obammy? ....

the guy would like nothing better than to neutron bomb TX and turn it into a giant Section 8 housing complex for the illegals .... a DemoCrap voting booth on every corner

 

[VesperSparrow]

......mask, goggles, or face shield, gloves, gown, leg covering, shoe covers), so it is likely he became infected by inhaling contaminated droplet nuclei into his lungs or having them settle into his conjunctival (eye) sacs despite the use of CDC level protection against direct contact. Dr. Brantly apparently did not use a full-face respirator with P-100 filters, but rather a simple or N-95 face mask. An interviewer noted that


“Brantly says he isn't sure how he got infected. He's certain he didn't violate any [CDC] safety guidelines.”

It is pretty clear from the current West African Ebola outbreak, particularly in the case of Dr. Kent Brantly and the doctors and nurses working with Dr. Callahan in previous Ebola epidemics, that Ebola-infected human beings are very good at shedding Ebola particles, particularly in the hospital setting. People gravely ill with Ebola are in no way comparable to the Ebola-infected monkeys described in this year’s experimental laboratory setting.

Aerosol-generating medical procedures such as surgical operations, endotracheal intubation, airway suctioning,and the operation of mechanical ventilators or BiPap devices place healthcare workers at very great risk, and I suspect even bathing patients is likely to generate infectious airborne droplets into the air. “Casual contact” or spending hours in the same room with Ebola patients also places medical personnel at significant risk, even with the CDC-recommended protective measures listed above. In retrospect it is clear that Dr. Brantly was not at “low risk”, as the CDC would have us believe. As Dr. Michael V. Callahan observed first-hand, and as the case of Dr. Brantly demonstrates, the current CDC guidelines are inadequate for preventing nosocomial transmission of Ebola from patients to medical workers.

It is not feasible for all medical workers in the United States to use "spacesuits" with a self-contained breathing apparatus air supply, as used in BL4 labs and at hospitals specially equipped for Ebola, but at a minimum, the American healthcare system should immediately upgrade respiratory / eye protection to full face mask respirators with P-100 filters for known or suspected cases of Ebola.

The primary mode of person-to-person Ebola transmission is through direct contact with the body or body fluids of Ebola victims, but it is unwise to ignore the airborne mode. Current evidence supports healthcare workers using a higher level of airway and eye protection than is currently recommended. Although less airborne than Influenza, it is reasonable to conclude that the West African strain of Ebola is at times spread by airborne means since over 170 medical workers have been infected to date, with 81 dead. These victims were using CDC level protective measures against direct contact with the bodies and body fluids of Ebola patients, leaving airborne transmission as the remaining alternative mode. Simple face masks, and N-95 masks as well, are not good enough to filter out Ebola contaminated airborne particles, and they do not have silicon rubber seals against the face to prevent entrainment (leaking) of contaminated room air in clinic and hospital settings. Likewise, goggles and face shields are inferior in eye protection compared to full face respirators with P-100 filters. Since CDC-level respiratory/eye precautions for Ebola are inadequate for healthcare workers in West Africa, I assume they will also be inadequate in the United States.

If Ebola comes here via infected individuals from affected overseas areas, and spreads from these cases to American medical personnel, the damage to our society would be greatly magnified. Not only would we lose doctors, nurses and other medical workers who could no longer provide care to Ebola victims (not to mention loss of care for the normal influx of patients), the medical team would its self become sources of Ebola transmission to others. Considering the deadly virulence of the Ebola virus, with a 50-90% death rate, it be behooves us to err on the side of safety rather than on the side of risk by increasing the level of respiratory and eye protection for our medical teams.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.html#ixzz3FPeEsQoG
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[sssarawolf]

To bad this all wasn't done before the horse got out of the barn. But he like most of us thought the cdc should have known what they were doing.

Have to say it, ...... this is NOT O's homeland. Flame on.

 

[Frugal Bob]

You know this Ebola stuff is looking like the first 10 minutes of every pandemic/zombie movie ever made... it makes one think what the next 60 minutes will be like.

 

[rodeorector]

Perry is looking very presidential these days.

 

[Housecarl]

You know this Ebola stuff is looking like the first 10 minutes of every pandemic/zombie movie ever made... it makes one think what the next 60 minutes will be like.

That is definitely not generating a "warm and fuzzy" feeling, but you are completely correct.