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Back from the "front lines" in the ER, I can tell you nobody is laughing. Every person is screened, carefully, for travel and history of symptoms. Our ears normally up are way up for anything out of the ordinary. Everybody watches the patient carefully when the ambulance gurney hits the door and they come into the ER. It is a little tenser a ratcheting up of eyes on the patient. On transfers the other hospital asks the same questions and then confirms the answers.
Most of us are just careful taking histories We have protocols to immediately contain. Rooms ready, hazmat ready, phone numbers on speed dial to the chief and the phone tree. It is more fatiguing body and mind. It's taxing. If someone vomiting comes into the ER you can bet nobody is rushing in until we know, for sure that they are not at risk for this killer virus....until we know for sure.
it is about time they considered it.
many have been saying this for quite a while already.
I am surprised they just thought of this.
antibodies are only produced by our own bodies effective against the virus
as a result
why not use the peoples blood that are now immune? the so to speak.
many online have already expressed this some doctors as well
especially now since Dr Brantly did it you know it is suppose to help
but his blood still contains the virus it is just that his blood is now immune to the virus itself for now
Frontier President Barry Biffle emailed employees Friday to tell them the nurse may have been at a more advanced stage of the illness than previously thought.
Duncans's girl friend and others who were quarantined in his contaminated apartment will be released today free of Ebola. It goes to underscore and bold the CDC contention that Ebola is simply not that contagious. It is, primarily, a disease of caregivers.
We don't have a Surgeon General and haven't had one for nearly a year! Heard this first on TV, so looked it up to be certain, and find it to be absolutely deplorable that we don't!
We have an 'acting' Surgeon General. We had an 'acting' Director of the IRS, an 'acting' head of Homeland Security, an 'acting' Head of the CIA (twice!) still have many 'acting' Inspector Generals and now have an 'acting' Head of the Secret Service. Does that mean that none of those Agencies or Departments were operational? NOPE - The "acting" heads of all Agencies & Departments have full authority.
Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak is the "acting" Surgeon General - he actually has a lot of experience. He spent 13 years in the CDC, has a Medical degree from Northwestern and a Public Health degree from Harvard. He's been involved in several high level bioterror operations, including Anthrax.
According to the CBS article; Michael Leavitt (former HHS Secretary), Lawrence Gostin (director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University) & Mike Stobbe in his book "Surgeon General's Warning: How Politics Crippled the Nation's Doctor.") the US Surgeon General is an office with no power and no funding in today's Politics. It's nothing more than a "brand", and it's been that way beginning in the 1960's. I would be surprised if Obama has ever spoken to Boris Lushniak - he doesn't even have contact with the White House. His "deputies" meet with the "deputies" of Health and Human Services.
"The U.S. Surgeon General's authority has been so watered down and neutered by successive White House officials that it is difficult to see how having one now would make a difference. At most he or she would have a bully pulpit but there is no authority currently in the office to coordinate and virtually no resources at the [surgeon general's] disposal," Gostin said.
Leavitt echoed that while America's surgeon general has a "strong brand," the reality is that the office "with very little responsibility in the context of comprehensive emergency management."
He noted that the surgeon general answers to the assistant secretary for health, who answers to the HHS secretary (accordingly, it was HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell who briefed the president Sunday on the latest Ebola case).
CBS gets points for digging out what the Surgeon General's job is, they have to give back those points for going into Parrot Mode about the non confirmation of Murthy. They couldn't possible have missed Harry Reid's Nuclear option on confirmations. He only needs 51 votes and he has the majority.
Obama's appointment of his 1st Surgeon General shows how little stature the position has and his second appointment (which Reid refuses to hold a vote on) is even worse. I fully expect Obama to appoint Dr. Oz next.
Reid schedules votes for the Senate. There is no filibuster in the Senate (under the new Harry Reid 'rules') for Presidential appointees .. exception (so far) for Supreme Court Justices.
He could schedule a vote whenever he wants, BUT he doesn't choose to do that.
He'd need 51 votes to confirm (or remove a Hold) since the filibuster was nuked for Appointees in Nov. 2013. Dems control 53 votes, and 2 Indies who caucus with them.
53 (much less 55) is a larger number than 51 - so the 45 GOP Senators couldn't block anything.
So why doesn't Reid hold these Votes that the Parrots claim the Evil Republicans are stopping? Reid doesn't have enough Democrats to confirm the weirdo appointees. He only needs 51 or them - word is that he is about 10 short.
Duncans's girl friend and others who were quarantined in his contaminated apartment will be released today free of Ebola. It goes to underscore and bold the CDC contention that Ebola is simply not that contagious. It is, primarily, a disease of caregivers.
Just a language correction. the disease is contagious by direct contact with bodily fluids.
ISIS. Ebola. Global Warming. Instead of making us afraid, this administration is making us think what idiotic jackasses they are when they have no clue whatsoever what to do about anything.
They want hysterics, treat them like hysterics. That's a slap across the face and telling them to get a grip.
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