2014 Global Ebola Outbreak

Who needs strict protocol?

It's just ebola. :doh:

Someone needs to be fired.
 
I know a few nurses and they said, if a Ebola patient came into their hospital they are ill prepared to handle it.
 
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Hazardous waste pileup..who the **** lets that happen?
 
Victarion said:
Hazardous waste pileup..who the **** lets that happen?
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A hospital with nobody trained ahead, to pick it up.
And a CDC head completely BSing about how safe and prepared everyone is. To save his own job, blaming it on nurses.

What's sad (despite how obvious everything seems to everyone now) is how ill prepared anyone at that hospital was to receive an Ebola patient.

And the official CDC protocols they received was for them not to cover their necks. Can you blame them for feeling unprotected when this dropped on their doorstep.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rkers-are-supposed-to-treat-ebola-safely.html
 
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Mondragon said:
A hospital with nobody trained ahead, to pick it up.
And a CDC head completely BSing about how safe and prepared everyone is. To save his own job, blaming it on nurses.

What's sad (despite how obvious everything seems to everyone now) is how ill prepared anyone at that hospital was to receive an Ebola patient.

And the official protocol calls is for them not to cover their necks. Can you blame them for feeling unprotected when this dropped on their doorstep.
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So a massive sort of malpractice on behalf of the CDC head?
 
Victarion said:
So a massive sort of malpractice on behalf of the CDC head?
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if you are "quoting"/asking me?
I certainly don't need or want to see anyone sued.
They just need to send in experts to any hospital who receives a walk in ebola patient. Or emediatlly have them transferred somewhere where there are specialized experts and facilities. and waste disposal.
They did not do either, and it all came to late.
The head of the CDC needs to stop BSing about how great and prepared he made sure everyone and everything was. Which was all bull! And make sure he gets it right next time.
And stop blaming the nurses.
 
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Texas College Rejects African Applicants Because It Fears Ebola

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Navarro College, a community college in The Great State of Texas, sent rejection letters to multiple applicants from African countries because "Navarro College is not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases."

One such rejection letter sent to a Nigerian applicant was, of course, immediately posted to Twitter, and now the school has spent the past day backtracking in a comically inept manner. Inside Higher Ed reports that the school added this statement of dubious believability to their website yesterday after they began to be deluged with media calls:

Our college values its diverse population of international students. This fall we have almost 100 students from Africa. Unfortunately, some students received incorrect information regarding their applications to the institution. As part of our new honor's program, the college restructured the international department to include focused recruitment from certain countries each year. Our focus for 2014-15 is on China and Indonesia. Other countries will be identified and recruitment efforts put in place once we launch our new honors program fall 2015. We apologize for any misinformation that may have been shared with students.

Misinformation. Hm. Well. That's one way to put it. You stupid idiots.

As many people have gleefully pointed out, one place with "confirmed Ebola cases" is The Great State of Texas.

The only silver lining may be that this encounter with real live ignorant hicks will give international students an accurate picture of what America is really like.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news...rians-they-were-rejected-coming-country-ebola

Morons
 
:doh: seriously, the biggest reason why this virus is spreading is because of stupidity. If we started treating this seriously then maybe we would have quarantined it by now.
 
There needs to be massive education worldwide right now, in teaching people what to do. That of course includes healthcare workers, they're the first in line at risk.
 
Without the proper equipment that education is more or less useless. How has the federal government not provided these now high risk hospitals with the right materials? This whole thing is being fumbled hard.
 
Governments in America and Europe/UK really do need to educate their people about this. Start airing TV specials, radio ads etc on what to do and give reassuring information. There's so much mis-information spreading around my school right now it's unbelievable.

"Ebola's in London!"

"I heard if you shake hands with a guy with Ebola you die"

"It's already hit the general public"

People could do with some reassurance on this, because it's only a few more cases away from becoming mass hysteria - which in itself is bigger than the pandemic at the moment.
 
To be fair this is literally the first time the U.S. has had to deal with an Ebola infection and outside of the CDC few people in the medical community would have had any training dealing with a contagion like this.

If it had been because of the nurses it's because they were not trained to handle highly dangerous diseases like this but it sounds more like the hospital administration was at fault than any of the medical staff.

Although it does not excuse one bit of the inadequate even for regular conditions this hospital apparently was operating under.

And get some damned perspective. THREE PEOPLE ARE INFECTED. That does not constitute an epidemic in the United States or in Spain or Britain or even all of Europe where as far as I know only one person has gotten it and she was a nurse directly dealing with infected individiuals.
 
craigdbfan said:
Without the proper equipment that education is more or less useless. How has the federal government not provided these now high risk hospitals with the right materials? This whole thing is being fumbled hard.
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Man can't even afford to have nurses in schools. I doubt they are going to be sending hazmat suits to every hospital that receives someone from West Africa before they are full-blown symptomatic.
 
Now peopl on on my Facebook are freaking out because reportedly the Dallas man stopped in Cleveland and Akron.
 
Hyde said:
Governments in America and Europe/UK really do need to educate their people about this. Start airing TV specials, radio ads etc on what to do and give reassuring information.
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My wife has worked in the medical profession for decades.....believe me when I say that the American public needs to be educated on everything, not just ebola....every....damn....thing. They are stooooopeeeeed.
 
The only way to get infected is to come into contact with the infected fluids but I can see why people are scared. The media and the general misinformation going on out there has even rational people thinking irrationally.
 
I have little sympathy for pre-contagious patient zero potential contacts freaking out, they are just being ignorant.
I do have sympathy for the post-contagious contact nurses both in Texas and Spain(who got two on the brink of death patients)who put themselves on the line in hospitals and under conditions which where wholly unprepared, while their superiors safely declared it's all safe and under control from a separate room and on TV.
Then blamed the nurses.
 
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