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I don't want anyone arrested. I want the hospital to come clean on why they screwed up SO THAT NO OTHER HOSPITAL DOES IT AGAIN. It was not a software error. There is more to the story.
Let's hope Obama's crew, the IRS or Eric Holder doesn't investigate or we'll never know the truth.
I expect a hospital to ask his travel history and not send him home, then blame their software, then rescind that blame, then spin and make more excuses for why they sent an ebola patient home for 48 hours.
We're all FULLY aware of the lethality of the virus when it runs rampant in Africa. We don't know how it behaves if it's caught early in our system, when all the pieces fall into place, and when finger pointing isn't necessary.
Duncan did not know he was exposed.
The other people did.
There is a huge difference here. Duncan was not a medical person.
He was your normal Joe.
Duncan's experience is how this is going to go down should an outbreak happen.
You'll have people that have no idea they were exposed.
I don't want anyone arrested. I want the hospital to come clean on why they screwed up SO THAT NO OTHER HOSPITAL DOES IT AGAIN. It was not a software error. There is more to the story.
Drop the level 4 mumbo jumbo please, because it's irrelevant. If you follow the news, you are aware that the CDC has been saying that Ebola WILL eventually reach the United States. Ebola originates in Africa. A guy comes from Liberia. He has symptoms. Hmm. I wonder what that could possibly be. Eh, it's just the sniffles. Let's send him home with anti-biotics and call it good.
Either the nurse screwed up and didn't communicate with the attending physician; and/or the attending physician ignored the travel history and discharged the patient; and/or the hospital's administration failed to adequately inform and/or train their staff. Or maybe they told him to go away because he obviously had no insurance. There are many, many possible reasons why they screwed up and we still don't know the story.
There are employees at that Dallas hospital who will probably never speak to each other again because they are so furious with one another.
A level 4 biohazard with a 50-90% mortality rate is NOT mumbo jumbo.
And what if the hospital and government already corrected what went wrong ?
Why do you personally need to be told ?
I don't intend to disagree with you. The reports are mysteriously not her own that she touched her face but are third party reports....I am going to hold off judgment until we see how she does. One touch is unlikely to produce transmission in many other diseases...even HIV HEPb TB all require a high level of contact and over repeated exposures...so what I am saying is ONE touch and transmission is different from the norm...and quite surprising.
Just no one start the race thread. This guy received the best care available. For free. The drugs that saved some are not available with no due date on the next batch. The medical system took great care AND risk to try and save the man. It didn't work. We are all truly sorry for that.
Condolences to his family and may they recover soon.
Signed,
A sincere Republican
his family is complaining.
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Rev. Jackson said he came at the request of Duncan's family, who told him they were not getting enough information from the doctors, and that Duncan was not getting the best care America had to offer.
The family are all refugees and called Jesse Jackson to come help them.
Jesse ranted to the local press that they turned him away because he was Black and had no insurance.
The ball got rolling a few days ago.
Or did JJ's people make contact with Duncan's family? JJ has a tendency to make just about anything all about JJ.
Everyone is curious why the dots were not connected in Duncan's initial presentation at the ER and why he did not recive the same treatment as others diagnosed and subsequently transported back to the US. I guess it's easier to pull the race card than accept human error as it relates to the initial diagnosis.
We don't know how Duncan's condition, when admitted to the hospital compared to those who had been diagnosed in Liberia. It's possible some of Duncan's organs had already shut down.
And given the likely litigation the hospital is not in the best position to make further public statements.
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