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Did Duncan get on that plane knowing he was already exposed?
It's likely this will never be known. The taxi driver who transported Duncan and the pregnant girl and others thought the girl was having a miscarriage when she collapsed.
We also don't know how much, if any, factual information Duncan had about Ebola.
Duncan began his journey to the U.S. 25 days ago, Monrovia to Brussels to Dulles to DFW and had some serious layover time in Brussels and Dulles. It is reasonable to assume he had close contact with hundreds - thousands of people during his journey.
They have all cleared the 21 day period and none have acquired Ebola. This is consistent with WHO/ CDC communications that the level of contagion increases with symptoms, especially vomit and diarrhea.
By the time Duncan had reached this point he was in no shape to ride a bus or take a flight, anywhere.
I think the point is more:
You can take 100 people in Liberia that already have been exposed to Ebola, fly them to 100 different places and now you have how many Ebola cases in how many new places?
You can take 100 people in Liberia that already have been exposed to Ebola, fly them to 100 different places and now you have how many Ebola cases in how many new places?
Yes, numbers are used to calculate risk.
And, transmission.
It's probably a probability thing.
Last edited by Hyperthetic; 10-12-2014 at 03:57 PM..
"noting that the patient in isolation recently traveled to West Africa."
"Police, fire officials and emergency medical services have arrived at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Center in Braintree, Massachusetts, Joe Zanca, with the Braintree Fire Department, told the Globe."
Fire Department and police involved?? Good grief. Wouldn't it be cool if we could get some people off the campaign trail/raising money and take this seriously?
The administration has sat on this for months and done nothing until very recently.
This was the first case in the U.S. of an Ebola patient coming in through emergency.
There is absolutely no proof that any other hospital in the country would have handled it better. So until other cases come in through emergency and we have something to go on, I'd say that Texas handled it as best they could with the information they had at the time.
In Texas the ER and doc screwed up royally. The Texas ER and doc mishandled their own information. Some other doc or ER might not have. It certainly could have been handled better.
They already have bigger parasites than Ebola in Massachusetts...
How is Mitt doing these days by the way?
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Ebola may be in Massachusetts
