Ebola has reached Texas

[T-Rexx]

A Second Person Has Tested Positive For Ebola.

All news media outlets on both radio and television in Dallas-Fort Worth confirm that a healthcare worker who cared for Thomas Duncan has now indeed popped for Ebola. Details to follow...

That Hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian, has been rather remarkably incompetent at managing this disease and the media buzz surrounding it.

First, they sent an Ebola patient home from their ER because he did not have insurance and it is expensive to treat (despite the fact that the patient had a fever of 103°F in the ER and the patient and family kept saying he might have Ebola!). Then, they lied that it was a mistake caused by their dysfunctional medical records system. Now, we learn that one of their own employees caught a disease from one of their patients, presumably because they cannot implement adequate isolation procedures.

It isn't viable airborne, and Americans don't wash and handle their dead directly, so the vectors of contagion here are blunted. It's not the same threat here.

This is very true.

But, Dallas authorities are reassuring us that they have decontaminated the common areas of the new patient's apartment complex and her car. They have even "decontaminated the parking lot" (whatever that means) and have taken into isolation the patient's pet.

In other words, Dallas is reassuring us that there is no chance of contracting Ebola casually, but they are decontaminating walls, hand rails, parking lots, and cars to prevent people from contracting Ebola casually.

Why does Texas want help from the CDC or other federal government agencies at all?
They always talk about hwo they can handle it themselves, let them prove it.

Texas Republicans don't like government and don't want Americans to have health care. But, they are upset that the federal government is not doing physical examinations on everyone coming into the USA from Africa.

Perhaps this will help people realise that having a medical system which denies coverage to millions of your fellow citizens is not such a good idea. Viruses don't ask to see your insurance card before they infect you.

The profit incentive of private health care is not a good model for directing health care activity.

Sometimes, it is in the interest of the community to treat disease, even when it is expensive for the corporations responsible to do so.

 

[jdcnow]

The medical reporter for ABC News, Dr. Richard Besser, has already come out as saying Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas lacks the appropriate biocontainment facilities in place, nor the proper training of its medical staff, and wants the patient moved to Atlanta. Since Dr. Besser is the former head of the CDC, there is already talk of taking his advice. But we shall see...

 

[palbert]

I think all you Texans are getting het up over very little.

You're the gun and 2nd Amendment state: If you see an Ebola virus shoot it.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I see that a nephew of the Ebola victim a Liberian who died Wednesday at the Dallas hospital is complaining that his uncle had been “handled poorly, unfairly, and an injustice was done.”

How would he have been handled back home in Liberia?

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I think all you Texans are getting het up over very little.

You're the gun and 2nd Amendment state: If you see an Ebola virus shoot it.

 

[JPGhost]

>> A Second Person Has Tested Positive For Ebola.

All news media outlets on both radio and television in Dallas-Fort Worth confirm that a healthcare worker who cared for Thomas Duncan has now indeed popped for Ebola. Details to follow...

The fruit of that jerk.

 

[Vitamin]

I absolutely agree that this hospital should not be allowed anywhere near an Ebola patient. They've mishandled this crisis since day 1. There's only one Ebola patient in the US currently. Just let the CDC handle this, and fuck Texas.

 

[cgymike]

2 people may die!

Meanwhile 1000 died in Texas of natural causes...

 

[T-Rexx]

Anything this virulent would be hard to contain. There is much tsk-tsking at Texas because they have large egos, but hospitals the breadth of the land, from California to New York could and do make the same blunders.

Hospitals the breadth of the land do not send people home from their ERs who have 103°F temperatures, and then lie about it.

 

[rareboy]

>> A Second Person Has Tested Positive For Ebola.

All news media outlets on both radio and television in Dallas-Fort Worth confirm that a healthcare worker who cared for Thomas Duncan has now indeed popped for Ebola. Details to follow...

What do you want to bet that this person survives.

The over-reaction by Americans is fucking priceless.

 

[Vannie]

Many of these ebola posts are.....

Bad taste if you ask me, but that's just my opinion.

Not humorous:

I didn't see any humor threads about it before. My guess is that it isn't funny.

A tad bit insensitive don't you think

 

[T-Rexx]

Actually, they do.

I have friends whose daughter died from being sent away from an ER in similar circumstances. She was only 13. And you can be damned sure hospitals don't admit their guilt. They are worse than insurance companies about eschewing admission due to the great host of lawyers circling them.

It is precisely the point that when hospitals are incompetent, people die.

And Texas Health Presbyterian has been incompetent.

Of course people sometimes make mistakes. Even smart and caring people. But it is NOT routine for hospitals to send people home who have fevers of 103°F, nor is it excusable, as you insist. And this was NOT a mistake. THP sent home Thomas Eric Duncan because he did not have insurance and was not an American citizen. They would not, therefore, have been reimbursed for his hospitalization. That's a problem with American health care.

If you are able to respect hospitals, then you have a faith that exceeds mine. I have been at their mercy too much, and every time was appalled by their incompetence, bad management, and arrogance.

And yet, it would seem that you are still alive!

 

[FPNY]

It's payback for thrusting the Bush empire on us for so many years....God is punishing Texas because of the George Bushs...wait till you see what he does after Jeb is president...phew....

 

[star-warrior]

It's payback for thrusting the Bush empire on us for so many years....God is punishing Texas because of the George Bushs...wait till you see what he does after Jeb is president...phew....

Let us all pray and let the power of our prayers be answered.

 

[jdcnow]

Well, apparently, Nina Pham, the Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola... Well, now she has some company. This just keeps getting better, and better...

 

[star-warrior]

These folks who are finding they're getting ill before going to get help. They're urinating and defecating at least once or more a day, and this goes into the rat infested public sewers.

Will this mean we shall see ebola emerging in isolation in parts where these critters carry them?

 

[Kulindahr]

These folks who are finding they're getting ill before going to get help. They're urinating and defecating at least once or more a day, and this goes into the rat infested public sewers.

Will this mean we shall see ebola emerging in isolation in parts where these critters carry them?

According to the CDC, there's no evidence that rats can carry the virus. If you read carefully, though, there's also no evidence they can't.

So, why don't we know this??!?!?!?!?

 

[Kahaih]

According to the CDC, there's no evidence that rats can carry the virus. If you read carefully, though, there's also no evidence they can't.

So, why don't we know this??!?!?!?!?

It's also worth noting that they have quarantined the one lady's dog.

 

[Kulindahr]

It's also worth noting that they have quarantined the one lady's dog.

Yeah.

The saying is that ignorance is bliss. In this case, I think ignorance is a bitch!

Maybe I should start carrying my .22 rifle and shooting every rat I see.

 

[palbert]

^^ if not for ebola for the hantavirus