He didn't cop to being around a sick person, but mostly it was a massive fail of digital medical records. Digital medical records are bad for so many reasons.
some interesting stuff here, by a scientist who has been in Liberia, and has a candidate vaccine. this bit about the security theater at the airport is not reassuring. Q: What was your impression of the situation in Monrovia? A: The first impression was actually that nothing is wrong. The part of the city we were in, outside the center, was pretty calm. But when you get to the Ebola ward, that impression turns. It is a disastrous situation. There are a lot of sick people hanging around, trying to get in, but the ward is just not big enough. They have to turn obviously sick people back into the community because there are no beds. I think we would need at least five to 10 times the capacity in Monrovia. The city is totally overwhelmed by the number of cases and the outbreak. Q: What about yourself? How afraid were you of getting Ebola? A: As a lab worker, I feel extremely safe. We're very well trained for this. You would really have to have a catastrophic event happen in order to get a high-risk exposure. Having said that, you would be surprised what you sometimes get. You get tubes wrapped in gloves, including the needle, or broken glass vials. Those kinds of things you have to watch out for. People working for MSF, the clinicians, the nurses, that is a different story. They have a much higher potential of being exposed because they have to deal with the patient. Patients are like virus factories producing up to a hundred million virus particles per milliliter of blood, and a patient is unpredictable; a patient could cough, could spit at you, vomit on you, or even become aggressive and attack you. So these people really have the highest risk and have the highest burden. Q: But isn’t there a risk of contracting the virus off the job as well? A: If you move around, you never know who is infected and who isn't. This is the bigger problem for me personally. You have to basically avoid contact with local people, which is very difficult because these are friendly people, they like to touch each other. I actually think passing through the airport on my way out was the highest risk. They are bringing hundreds of people into a very confined space with a lot of direct contact, so if you get a patient into that environment, you are going to have exposures. It is a ridiculous situation. Also, they are checking your temperature three times before you get into the airport, but if you look at the people that do this kind of work, they don't really know how to use the devices. They are writing down temperatures of 32°C, which everybody should know is impossible for a living person. All the checks they do are completely useless because they are done by people who are not well trained or overwhelmed by the number of passengers. It is just a disaster, and it needs to be fixed. http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/confronting-ebola-virologist-liberias-hot-zone
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash">#BREAKING</a> D.C. hospital monitoring possible Ebola case <a href="http://t.co/qI1kCT4XuP">http://t.co/qI1kCT4XuP</a></p>— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) <a href="https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/518070304183451648">October 3, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
No link yet. Saw it on TV. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>N cypress medical center:"treating patient who's at extremely low risk for Ebola-"</p>— Deborah Wrigley (@wrigleyABC13) <a href="https://twitter.com/wrigleyABC13/status/519239618907361280">October 6, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ebola outbreak thread in Africa started 6-22-14 is currently at 12 pages, full of people getting post count up high, and mocking that country, all while thinking Ebola wont come here. Fast forward Ebola outbreak in USA thread started 9-30-2014 10 pages in about one week. With majority of people worried. Like I said months ago, you'd guys be taking it a lot more seriously if it came here to USA. Now its just a few hundred miles north of us. :/
I have a bunch of posts in this thread. I'm not scared of ebola. The news is just more relevant when it is local. Like all news is.
it's human nature man. Deal with it. People diss other people all the time. But watch someone talk trash about a loved one, and you get upset. With that said. The racism in the whole ebola epidemic is unacceptable.
