Some local color
"Patient Zero" at THPD was isolated in a 24 bed ICU. So that whole particular ICU was out of service for any other patient use. I wonder how many hospitals have a small isolation unit that is trustworthy, building systems and equipment-wise. Comments here locally that the isolation at THPD was loading the other hospitals in the area. It wouldn't take too many of those events across hospitals to effectively strangle our urgent hospital healthcare.
THPD's ER is CLOSED. All incoming patients diverted.
I wonder if the design of the new big Parkland has small isolation units? May not have been thought of as a important need. The under-construction New Parkland hospital has undergone major design changes while under construction already.
I think many of us were under the impression that health care workers in contact with patient zero or his hazardous extracts were wearing full isolation spacesuits. Apparently not. It may be one thing to wear the get-up they used often, and another to wear it when your life depends on it. One unnoticed mistake in other times likely would not be a big deal. This time it is.
Nurse associations commenting on the lack of real training, no matter what the talking heads are saying.
Director of CDC saying "it WILL be stopped in Dallas"... OK, first task, annex all cities in Dallas county and surrounding counties all to Dallas.
Clay Jenkins, Dallas County Judge and lead Dallas County homeland security official, needs to can the parrot talk. He is a sensible person, but he is way out of his league on this one with his prior visit to the infected apartment, and his continuing parroty pronouncements. A good friend needs to tell him to shut up already. Politicians making puff the chest out happy talk on this one is a bad idea. I'm surprised they are sticking their necks out so far on this. The urge to get in front of the camera is exceeding sense.
As the days go by, if more healthcare folks turn up positive with Ebola from patient zero, the whole healthcare scheme could crash. If they feel they may not be getting the protection it requires, and decide to say F-it, I'm not going in there, who will? If the boss says you go, or you're fired, and they won't go, then what? It all assumes people will do their jobs. But if people "doing their jobs" possibly ends in their death, while possibly infecting others too, then it grows outward instead of containment. Very tough questions then. Now
that is a disaster scenario.