Throwdownmyaceinthehole
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I opened a good bottle of Pinot tonight, to watch the news, cuz we are all gonna dieeee.....
My hope is that President Obama will appoint an Ebola Czar with emergency powers. No "should have" or " could have", just do it right!
There is almost nothing else more likely to bring out the armed militia groups and political opposition than this. Bad idea.
I opened a good bottle of Pinot tonight, to watch the news, cuz we are all gonna dieeee.....
If you were in charge, how would you manage the situation?
OK, then I hope President Obama will issue executive orders which must be obeyed. However, not being an infection control expert, he will need advisors to guide his orders.
Actually the states already have those powers. They remain from the early part of the 20th century when they were used for TB among other things. Note that for example the Dallas county judge discussed travel bans for those being watched. Here is a link to the state laws on communicable disease health emergencies: State Quarantine and Isolation Statutes
The federal role is related to interstate travel, mainly.
Major centres do, and there have already been several patients isolated and tested for Ebola. To date, all have been negative. It's only a matter of time. My educated guess is that the level of preparation in Canada is about the same as in the US.
Ebola virus disease - Infectious Diseases - Public Health Agency of Canada
Here is a policy example from September 2014. Actually, it's an Operational Directive, which means compliance is mandatory.
http://www.wrha.mb.ca/prog/ipc/files/EVDMgmt-OD.pdf
If you were in charge, how would you manage the situation?
I would kick some asses at the CDC and make sure someone competent who takes ebola seriously is in charge. I would NOT do anything that even remotely hinted at imposing martial law.
I'll take a swing:If you were in charge, how would you manage the situation?
I'm not willing to sacrifice him for one screw up which was only partially his agencies fault.
I'm not looking for heads. Too much of that in today's political world.
Just looking for them to do their jobs. Part of their job is to train the hospitals on this. How about training the people in isolation. ("Don't get on a plane.")
Sounds like all this is now happening at a higher intensity now which is good.
More from inside, the nurses view of what went on:
Dallas nurses describe Ebola hospital care: 'There was no protocol'
Heads will need to roll at that hospital, and at the hospital group. Big Heads, not nurses.
Just looking for them to do their jobs. Part of their job is to train the hospitals on this. How about training the people in isolation. ("Don't get on a plane.")
+1. I could not believe that one of the Dallas nurses supposedly in isolation after the first nurse got infected decided to fly from Dallas to Cleveland to visit her mother, during her 3-week isolation period. That is the height of irresponsibility! And why was she even allowed to get on a commercial flight?? Now, 132 people who were on that flight with her (from Cleveland to Dallas) will have their lives disrupted (possibly in a major way), because of her stupidity. Unbelievable.
+1The nurses keep getting tossed under the bus. They are the victims.
Don't blame the nurse. She actually contacted the CDC prior to her flight. She reported her fever at 99.5. They told her she was clear to fly since it wasn't a 100.5 fever. Per their 'protocol'. Apparently she called the CDC more than once and got the same answer.
The nurses keep getting tossed under the bus. They are the victims.
Muir
I doubt that this is the root cause of the problems. Sure a better facility would be great, but the problems so far are a lot more about not even wearing the protective gear for the first few days while waiting for the Ebola test to be confirmed. Common sense would have been to act like the test was positive and protect, then you can always relax if it turns out to be a false alarm. To treat it like a routine problem until the test says otherwise is common in some medical settings but should not have been for something as infectious as this.The hospital in Dallas was not designed for or intended to ever handle anything like ebola. The crime here was their attempt to handle it.
She did exactly what she was told to do- go upstairs and get orders.While I am in the camp that the nurses should be applauded for knowingly risking their lives for treating Mr. Duncan, it is still an incredible lapse in judgment to hop on an airplane knowing you are in the 3 week incubation period. I don't care what the CDC told her, that just shows an extreme lapse in judgment in my opinion.