EBOLA Inmate at Cobb county jail being tested for Ebola in Atlanta area

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/cobb-co-jail-inmate-being-tested-ebola/nhbYB/

COBB COUNTY, Ga. —

The Cobb County Jail is no longer accepting inmates after an inmate developed a fever. The man told jail officials that he recently traveled to Africa.

Jail officials confirm to Channel 2's Ross Cavitt that the inmate is being tested for Ebola.

The man was arrested overnight for DUI.

We are anticipating an update from the Cobb County Sheriff's Office and we will carry it live on wsbtv.com.

Check back for constant updates from wsbtv.com and get live coverage on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4 p.m.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
Considering the "mechanics" of a county jail, everyone is going to have to be quarantined including every deputy and attorney that's been in the place since this guy got booked into the place and every inmate processed out. YIKES!
 

vessie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Considering the "mechanics" of a county jail, everyone is going to have to be quarantined including every deputy and attorney that's been in the place since this guy got booked into the place and every inmate processed out. YIKES!

And all the families of the employees who worked at that time who then went home after their shifts. V
 

2Trish

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Report: Inmate At Cobb County Jail Being Tested For Ebola
October 3, 2014 12:44 PM
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In this handout from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a Ebola virus virion is seen. (credit: Center for Disease Control (CDC) via Getty Images)

In this handout from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a Ebola virus virion is seen. (credit: Center for Disease Control (CDC) via Getty Images)
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. (CBS Atlanta/AP) — An inmate at the Cobb County Jail is reportedly being test for Ebola.

WSB-TV reports that the man told jail officials he recently traveled to Africa after developing a fever while in custody.

He was arrested overnight and charged with DUI.

WSB reports that the jail is no longer accepting inmates at this time.

The first Ebola diagnosis in the nation has raised concerns about whether the disease that has killed 3,300 people in West Africa could spread in the U.S. Federal health officials say they are confident they can keep it in check.

Texas health officials expanded their efforts to contain the virus, reaching out to as many as 100 people who may have had direct contact with Thomas Eric Duncan or someone close to him.

None has shown symptoms, but they have been told to notify medical workers if they begin to feel ill, said Erikka Neroes, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County Health and Human Services agency.

The at-risk group includes 12 to 18 people who had direct contact with the infected man, including an ambulance crew and a handful of schoolchildren. The others came into contact with that core group, she said.

“This is a big spider web” of people, Neroes said.

The virus that causes Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids — blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen — of an infected person who is showing symptoms. Those fluids must also have an entry point.

For example, people might get infected by handling soiled clothing or bed sheets and then touching their mouth, or if they are not wearing gloves while doing those tasks and have a cut on their hand.

Duncan’s neighbors in the Liberian capital believe he become infected when he helped a sick pregnant neighbor a few weeks ago. It was not clear if he had learned of the woman’s diagnosis before traveling.

Nonetheless, Liberian authorities announced plans to prosecute Duncan when he returns, accusing him of lying about not having any contact with an infected person.

Duncan filled out a form Sept. 19 about his health and activities before leaving for Dallas. Among other questions, the form asked whether Duncan had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of anyone who had died in an area affected by Ebola. He answered no to all the questions.

Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.

“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”

Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill a few days later. An emergency room sent Duncan home last week, even though he told a nurse he had been in West Africa.

In a statement issued late Thursday, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said it followed communicable disease protocols by asking Duncan if he had come into contact with anyone who was ill. He replied that he had not.

A flaw in the electronic health records systems led to separate physician and nursing workflows, meaning the travel history documented by nurses was not passed onto physicians, hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said. He said the system has been corrected.

Duncan’s symptoms included a 100.1 F temperature, abdominal pain, a headache and decreased urination, the hospital said. He said he had no nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Based on that, the hospital decided to release him.

He returned two days later and has been kept in isolation since Sunday. Duncan was listed Thursday in serious but stable condition.
 

Ambros

Veteran Member
“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”

Uhhhh WHAT? Seal the damn border, no new outbreak monkeys in, take care of the ones in the place, and boom....outbreak contained. That's like saying if you put a bucket under a water faucet, turn the water on, then try to scoop the water out with a thimble that turning the water off would make it harder to get the water out of the bucket. What kind of stupidity is this?
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
Uhhhh WHAT? Seal the damn border, no new outbreak monkeys in, take care of the ones in the place, and boom....outbreak contained. That's like saying if you put a bucket under a water faucet, turn the water on, then try to scoop the water out with a thimble that turning the water off would make it harder to get the water out of the bucket. What kind of stupidity is this?

It is the PC, Liberal thought process/rationalization that is going to be the ultimate death of us all. It is obviously contagious in itself (the PCness) because there was a lot more common sense even 20 or 30 years ago than there is now.
 

imaginative

keep your eye on the ball
Considering the "mechanics" of a county jail, everyone is going to have to be quarantined including every deputy and attorney that's been in the place since this guy got booked into the place and every inmate processed out. YIKES!

And I hope no one else used that breathalyzer
 

CTFIREBATTCHIEF

Veteran Member
as far as the guy in Atlanta that was booked in? I wonder where he was drinking? at home or at a bar someplace...man what a mess!!
 

JohnGaltfla

#NeverTrump
If you're a cop, and the suspect is black and has an African dialect, are you going to approach him now and try to arrest him and put your entire family at risk of a painful death?

Yup, anarchy, right around the corner....
 

Beach

Veteran Member
They had a news conference about this on WSB during my drive home today. Said all tests so far are negative, but won't get the official CDC ebola test results until 9:00 to 12:00 tonight. Everyone involved realized what they may be looking at from the point the ambulance workers got involved and used proper protocol in handling him.
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
Actually what it says is this: "The Cobb County Sheriff's Office says inital Ebola tests have come back negative for a Cobb County Jail inmate. One test is still outstanding, but officials say they expect that test to come back negative as well."

That is not exactly an "all clear" yet. I hope it will be, but let's not jump the gun.

I first heard this about 4 pm when I went in the car to go buy batteries.

As I posted earlier today, WSB radio----along with ALL ATLANTA stations---are simply playing "yes men" to WHATEVER line (lie) the CDC puts out (http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...IRST-IN-USA!&p=5369540&highlight=#post5369540)

The first words I heard them say this afternoon were "The BIG story--which we have been trying to downplay all afternoon....."

YES, he SAID that.


And then they go on to CALMLY, EMPHATICALLY, and REPEATEDLY REGURGITATE (and I choose that word by design) the CDC's LIES that Ebola "is not easily caught, can only be caught by direct contact, and can not be picked up on surfaces"---and YES, they said that LAST one, too!


GOD HELP US---they are DELIBERATELY LYING TO THE PEOPLE TELLING THEM THIS IS NOT AS DANGEROUS AS IT TRULY IS--- AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF THESE LIARS !!!!


Then, coming home, I heard the NATIONAL press conference----another regurgitation of the SAME OLD LIES----and as I left the grocery store parking lot, what should drive in but a small white vehicle something between a "jeep" style and a small "SUV" style---painted ALL WHITE with the words "HOMELAND SECURITY POLICE" on the side and the logo "Public Protection Force."

Why he was going to Publix I have no idea--I didn't even try to snap a picture of it. It is a mark of how afraid I am becoming that I was fearful that if I did they'd arrest me for some reason just because I did so.
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
Oh--forgot to say--

I CALLED WSB radio newsroom twice---once to ask WHY they are accepting at face value a "negative" test result SO EARLY IN, when (and I asked them--don't YOU REMEMBER??!??) Patrick Sawyer's test results were negative in the beginning, too--and begging them to NOT accept at face value whatever they're told but to do the research and dig deeper.

All I got out of the reporter who answered the phone was, "thank you."


I called again later & asked them how it was possible they had gotten a test result SO SOON--when according to news reports the guy was only arrested TODAY and even the CDC says their tests take AT LEAST 24 hours for results----

all they said was, "These are different tests that don't take that long."

He also said "one" of the tests was "a white-blood-cell count" test---so THAT wasn't even strictly-speaking an "ebola" test.
 
Oh--forgot to say--

I CALLED WSB radio newsroom twice---once to ask WHY they are accepting at face value a "negative" test result SO EARLY IN, when (and I asked them--don't YOU REMEMBER??!??) Patrick Sawyer's test results were negative in the beginning, too--and begging them to NOT accept at face value whatever they're told but to do the research and dig deeper.

All I got out of the reporter who answered the phone was, "thank you."


I called again later & asked them how it was possible they had gotten a test result SO SOON--when according to news reports the guy was only arrested TODAY and even the CDC says their tests take AT LEAST 24 hours for results----

all they said was, "These are different tests that don't take that long."

He also said "one" of the tests was "a white-blood-cell count" test---so THAT wasn't even strictly-speaking an "ebola" test.

White cell counts with differential can be a useful diagnostic TOOL, but it is not a definitive test for anything. WBC with diff can be done in a a short time and is often done on a stat basis in EDs across the country. Many "Doc-in-the-boxes" also have the capability of doing them.

A dollar to a donut the one test they are waiting on is the actual Ebola test.
 

Josie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/report-inmate-at-cobb-county-jail-being-tested-for-ebola/


Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.

“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”

.....

A flaw in the electronic health records systems led to separate physician and nursing workflows, meaning the travel history documented by nurses was not passed onto physicians, hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said. He said the system has been corrected.

Couple of things jumped out at me. First off, I know it was piss poor reporting, but I was getting a headache reading and re-reading the article trying to find out who the heck Freiden is! Finally Googled the name Freiden and come to find out, he is the director of the CDC!

Secondly, if he actually said what he is quoted as saying, either he is an out and out liar or ANOTHER incompetent affirmative action hire by the Obozo administration. But when I look at his picture, he's a white guy! So no affirmative action there! So that leaves me with the liar choice and I would go with it if his statement actually made any sense! Under a quarantine, people are not allowed to travel, moron!

Finally for the last part, from what I hear from people in working in medicine now days, screw-ups like what happened in Dallas are much more frequent than when an actual paper file/chart followed the patient around. In many cases, our health care is a danger to our lives!
 
Couple of things jumped out at me. First off, I know it was piss poor reporting, but I was getting a headache reading and re-reading the article trying to find out who the heck Freiden is! Finally Googled the name Freiden and come to find out, he is the director of the CDC!

Secondly, if he actually said what he is quoted as saying, either he is an out and out liar or ANOTHER incompetent affirmative action hire by the Obozo administration. But when I look at his picture, he's a white guy! So no affirmative action there! So that leaves me with the liar choice and I would go with it if his statement actually made any sense! Under a quarantine, people are not allowed to travel, moron!

Finally for the last part, from what I hear from people in working in medicine now days, screw-ups like what happened in Dallas are much more frequent than when an actual paper file/chart followed the patient around. In many cases, our health care is a danger to our lives!

I know exactly what you mean. He is one I yell at on the TV!
 

Beach

Veteran Member
White cell counts with differential can be a useful diagnostic TOOL, but it is not a definitive test for anything. WBC with diff can be done in a a short time and is often done on a stat basis in EDs across the country. Many "Doc-in-the-boxes" also have the capability of doing them.

A dollar to a donut the one test they are waiting on is the actual Ebola test.

Yes, that's what they said on the radio. Will come in between 9 an 12:00 tonight.
 
I don't get excited about any negative test results unless they have been sick for several days. Too many false negatives.

Absolutely true! Patrick Sawyer tested negative initially. Where is he? Oh, yeah, he's dead....of Ebola. The tests are not accurate and have a very high rate of false negatives until later in the active stage of disease.
 

JohnGaltfla

#NeverTrump
I don't get excited about any negative test results unless they have been sick for several days. Too many false negatives.

LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.

But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.

But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...

I don't know if they still do, but when all of this started, they were testing for Marburg in addition to many other things.
 

fi103r

Veteran Member
LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.

But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...

We need to know what the heck is presenting ebola/nobola/newbola symptoms if the doc is testing for ebola this is probably hemmoragic

r
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
White cell counts with differential can be a useful diagnostic TOOL, but it is not a definitive test for anything. WBC with diff can be done in a a short time and is often done on a stat basis in EDs across the country. Many "Doc-in-the-boxes" also have the capability of doing them.

A dollar to a donut the one test they are waiting on is the actual Ebola test.

Well they are saying they will have THAT by 9 or 10 pm tonight EDT (it's almost that now) so what I want to know is WHEN and HOW did the CDC's ebola test, that took a MINIMUM of 24-48 HOURS to fully develop, FOR ACCURACY, suddenly turn into a 5-8 hour test???
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
Absolutely true! Patrick Sawyer tested negative initially. Where is he? Oh, yeah, he's dead....of Ebola. The tests are not accurate and have a very high rate of false negatives until later in the active stage of disease.

BUT THAT IS THE PROBLEM.


WSB radio, and ALL The other Atlanta stations, are acting as if THIS TEST IS THE DEFINITIVE WORD on the virus, and if it's negative, then we're in the CLEAR.


THEY ARE LYING!


And how many lives may be put in jeopardy or lost as a result?


Not to mention possibly starting ANOTHER knot of runaway Ebola contagion, as we ALREADY HAVE in Texas? (if we want to speak out loud HONESTLY what we all FEAR is true?)
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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We need to know what the heck is presenting ebola/nobola/newbola symptoms if the doc is testing for ebola this is probably hemmoragic

r

Not necessarily. Any 'flulike symptoms" *combined with* a history of having visited any of the affected countries in West Africa is going to get an Ebola test, especially if there is significant fever.

Hemmorhagic symptoms actually are only showing in a fairly small (20%) percentage of cases with this strain. However, reports say that ALL of those who do start bleeding die.

Summerthyme
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/report-inmate-at-cobb-county-jail-being-tested-for-ebola/


Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.

“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”

Did you see hear this today? Rush Limbaugh played the sound bite on his show---where Anderson Cooper interviews David Quammen about his book on Ebola: (you can HEAR the sound bite at THIS FOX link http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/10/03/ebola-expert-cnn-we-can’t-ban-flights-liberia-because-slavery )


This Sound Bite Is All the Proof You Need That Political Correctness Is Destroying This Country
October 03, 2014


BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Last night Anderson Cooper 24 spoke with author David Quammen about the book Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus and How America Should Respond to It.

Anderson Cooper said, "There are those who say that there should not be flights allowed from Liberia to US, even flights that have connected through Europe. That's not even really possible. First of all, I don't think there are many flights that directly connect from Monrovia to the US. Most of them are connection flights, so it's virtual impossible in real time like that to track somebody, I would think."

QUAMMEN: You can't isolate neighborhoods; you can't isolate nations. It doesn't work. And people talk about, "Well, we shouldn't allow any flights from Liberia." I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia? Given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery, we have a responsibility to stay connected with them and help them see this through.

RUSH: There. Have you doubted anything about this that I have been attributing to political correctness all week? There you have it. How dare we turn our backs on Liberia? How dare we ban flights! How dare we? Liberia only exists because of American slavery. We owe them by sharing the burden.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I want you to hear this again. All week long I have been attempting to convince everybody of how the tentacles of political correctness are slowly destroying the backbone and the spine of this country, and not just the backbone and the spine. Political correctness destroys common sense. Political correctness is a direct attack on achievement and success. It's an attack on the extraordinary. It's an attack on excellence.

And that's why it's made to order for the Democrat Party, made to order for liberalism. Now, who is this guy? This guy is an author. His name is David Quammen, he's written a book, Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, and he was on CNN with Anderson Cooper last night. He's an acknowledged, quote/unquote, "expert" on Ebola and how America should respond to it.

Anderson Cooper basically, in the question says, "Look, there aren't any direct flights from Africa to the US, certainly not from Monrovia, Liberia. We can't stop them. We can't stop all these flights. There's no way. It's virtually impossible, right?" And then this guy's answer: "Not only is it impossible, we have no business stopping these flights! We have no business trying to keep Ebola out of this country, especially from Liberia."

We're guilty, folks. We essentially deserve this. (replaying of sound bite) Let me ask a question. Okay. So... (interruption) I know, I know, I know. Everybody's shouting things at the radio. Let me go through these one at a time. We are not "turning our backs on Liberia" by keeping Ebola out of this country. A total non sequitur! We are helping. We're doing everything we can.

We sent every bit of serum that we had over to Liberia and other countries. We've done a lot to try to help isolate it. Keeping Ebola out of America is not turning our backs on Liberia. And then, of course, "Why, we are responsible for Liberia. Why, if we hadn't had slavery, that poor black people had to flee from, why, there wouldn't be a Liberia. Therefore, there wouldn't be any poor slave descendants in Liberia to even get Ebola if it weren't for us.

"So we are ultimately responsible for them getting Ebola because if it weren't for us and slavery they wouldn't even be there, and so we can't turn our backs on them. That country was founded because of American slavery, and therefore -- since it's all our fault -- we have a responsibility to stay connected. And, by God, if any of them that we sent over there back in the 1800s because of slavery, want to come back here, who the hell are we to say no? Because everything that's happened to them is our fault."

Hello, political correctness.


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2...itical_correctness_is_destroying_this_country
 
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Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
10 pm news---they declared the Ebola test NEGATIVE.


(no word on how this test was so miraculously quick.)


(anyone able to point me to a medical link -- I know I've read it somewhere--- on how LONG it actually TAKES to run one of those ebola tests?)
 

Beach

Veteran Member
http://www.newsweek.com/how-hospitals-test-ebola-274898

CM the article at the link states that the actual test can take as little as three to four hours. For someone in the Atlanta metro area you have to add a few hours for time to transport. For other areas of the country you have to add time to one-day ship the blood sample to a proper testing lab, thereby the 24 hour or so result.
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
http://www.newsweek.com/how-hospitals-test-ebola-274898

CM the article at the link states that the actual test can take as little as three to four hours. For someone in the Atlanta metro area you have to add a few hours for time to transport. For other areas of the country you have to add time to one-day ship the blood sample to a proper testing lab, thereby the 24 hour or so result.

Thanks. Maybe it was something I read over at Pixie's forum, but I could have SWORN I read that you have to allow time for a culture of virus to grow, and that takes about 24 hours.

???
 

msswv123

Veteran Member
This is from the storify from the CDC chat yesterday....they answer most of the questions but then someone ask this and they completely dodged the question.

CO Pinecone @CO_Pinecone
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#Ebola #CDCchat At what point will a Ebola test show positive once a person has been exposed? Can there be a false negative?
5:05 PM - 2 Oct 2014


CDC Emergency ✔ @CDCemergency
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.@CO_Pinecone CDC is here 24/7 to take calls from concerned medical/hospital staff - 100 calls, 24 states, 15 tests, 1 positive. #CDCchat
4:32 PM - 2 Oct 2014


another

How soon does a blood test detect #ebola we should require blood test results from incoming travelers at their expense #CDCchat


CDC ✔ @CDCgov
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.@mmatitanfans The test for #Ebola only works when a person is symptomatic. #CDCchat
4:36 PM - 2 Oct 2014



another

Ms. L @Ms_Lathrop
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@CDCgov is that a rapid test or a PCR test? #CDCchat

They dodge again:


CDC ✔ @CDCgov
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.@Ms_Lathrop For information about diagnosis, please see http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/diagnosis/index.html … #CDCchat


Here's the link to the storify

https://storify.com/CDCgov/live-ebola-cdcchat-october-2-2014#publicize



See the graph here:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/diagnosis/index.html
 
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