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Not long after it hit Dallas we were issued individual PPE that was not used on a regular basis but shared and utilized as the need arose for certain tasks.
As a precaution but not a bad idea anytime even against flu as it was face protection.
From the article: "As Ebola enters a deepening relationship with the human species, the question of how it is mutating has significance for every person on earth."
Cuomo and Christie's pandering to ignorance and fear will be short lived. The NY,NJ quarantines are coming under fire from the people who are forced into quarantine, the volunteer agencies and the health care experts. It is likely that a court is going to order them stopped as it is hard to show there is a legitimate state interest in detaining persons when medical opinion says there is none.
Cuomo and Christie's pandering to ignorance and fear will be short lived. The NY,NJ quarantines are coming under fire from the people who are forced into quarantine, the volunteer agencies and the health care experts. It is likely that a court is going to order them stopped as it is hard to show there is a legitimate state interest in detaining persons when medical opinion says there is none.
There is no state interest in protecting people from ebola? I'm sure the state has it's own medical experts who will testify in its defense.
The NY,NJ quarantines are coming under fire from the people who are forced into quarantine,
I would think those individuals that are giving/caring to provide help to others for no compensation would be the last to complain about a quarantine upon return to a country which is trying to keep the same thing from happening here. Even if the odds are very low of spreading the virus, why take a chance and why not err on the side of caution? There are many unknowns here with this virus and the "experts" can't know the current status/every last detail on how the virus is morphing.
There is no state interest in protecting people from ebola? I'm sure the state has it's own medical experts who will testify in its defense.
The quarantine is overreaction. As the Spencer case clearly demonstrates, monitoring is sufficient to protect the public without imprisoning the volunteers. We can't let our fears make our decisions. NY, and NJ are wrong and the courts will agree. Wait and see...
OK, I'm back. In the three days I was gone, a lot has happened on the Ebola scene. At first, I was going to drop the "CDC blamed the nurses" issue, because it was contentious and seemed kind of over with. But then, two things happened.
One, Craig Spencer, MD, came down with Ebola after traveling around NYC, including going bowling, for a couple of days while feeling "under the weather" before his temperature spiked and he was officially diagnosed with Ebola. No one at the CDC, let alone the head honcho Dr. Frieden, made any statements about any breaches in protocol Dr. Spencer must have committed, and/or his travels in public, including on public transportation prior to his diagnosis.
Amber Vinson is apparently highly p*ssed off at the CDC and is planning to hire an attorney. Here is a snippet: "The next day, Frieden said he'd gotten an "earful" from nurses around the country about his comments."
In regards to the issue of "what is an epidemic" here is the PUBLIC HEALTH definition:
Definitions "11. Epidemic—The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness (or an outbreak) with a frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy. The number of cases indicating presence of an epidemic will vary according to the infectious agent, size and type of population exposed, previous experience or lack of exposure to the disease, and time and place of occurrence; epidemicity is thus relative to usual frequency of the disease in the same area, among the specified population, at the same season of the year.A single case of a communicable disease long absent from a population or the first invasion by a disease not previously recognized in that area requires immediate reporting and epidemiologic investigation; two cases of such a disease associated in time and place are sufficient evidence of transmission to be considered an epidemic. (See Report of a Disease)"
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