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As previously posted, vomiting woman does not have Ebola. She has admitted to lying about recent travel to West Africa. She has not recently traveled anywhere.
Reportedly, she works for Total Spectrum, a DC lobbying firm.
what?? what in the hell would cause a grown woman to do this???
closing airline traffic would cost significant amount of money and worthy travel to these countries. Ebola is and remains no real threat to the United States. People aren't passing it until symptomatic, and aren't traveling when they are really contagious. Plus closing air traffic would then force people to move via other routes harder to track (and easier to spread Ebola). If you have money for a air ticket to US, you have money to take a ship to Spain or something than fly back (you people are so not thinking this through)
Any hospital in the United states should of had the capability (you would think) to handle this disease (or fairly quickly). Hospitals need to be prepared for infectious diseases . . .not just Ebola. This isn't a sunk cost, there will be actual contagious threats in the future. This is an opportunity to prepare, because obviously we aren't.
We got a glimpse from the Nurses Union about how bad Texas F'd up. So now you have a couple nurses sick (and no doubt a few more by the time this is done).
So no, air travel should continue. Very little threat in it. . .and if someone comes from West Africa to Ebola I will assume we will better prepared since the last f'd up in texas.
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a real man and leader doesn't blame others for mistakes, what he admits is, there have been mistakes made and we're going to learn from it and change it....
Aaaargh! He's in a meeting, figuring out who should be doing what. Of course he's going to address what the CDC and WHO should've been doing and where they fell short. In a meeting, where they're discussing it. This is what you want him to do, right?
It's counterproductive to criticize everything he does for it's own sake.
at the BARE MIN then the airlines should use this machine to just use it for screening people coming from west africa
okay - no. At least on flights.
the test, without symptoms, isn't likely to be effective. They didn't mention the error rate, but even if it was a 10% error rate. . .for a 1 in a million event like Ebola you would be flagging thousands for every ebola patient.
Better to have symptoms + previous destination + contact than test
though Duncan would of fit that bill. . but hell you didn't need this machine. The hospital ignored his previous travel on the 1st visit. . they didn't even THINK Ebola. . . so they wouldn't of had a clue to use the test.
A doctor yesterday said if any Ebola fluid gets on your naked skin , neck , etc, you get Ebola. He stated the nurses should not have had any bare skin as just touching the neck with ebola on a glove would give that person ebola.. translated, one does not need an opening in the skin to contract ebola.
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