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Thursday, October 23, 2014

NYC: Doctor Suspected of Having Ebola Rushed to Bellevue Hospital - Very Ill


Dr Craig Spencer, 33, who returned to the U.S. ten days ago after treating Ebola patients in Guinea, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday with Ebola-like symptoms



NYPost: Doctor who treated Ebola patients rushed to NYC hospital 
The Big Apple may have its first case of Ebola...103 fever & nausea...returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago

NYT: 9 in Connecticut Being Watched for Symptoms of Ebola

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NYDailyNews: Doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea rushed to Bellevue Hospital with fever 10/23/2014 2;49 PM

The drama unfolded shortly before noon on W. 147th St., where FDNY hazardous materials specialists sealed off the apartment as EMS rushed the doctor, clad in an exposure suit, to Bellevue. He told authorities that he recently got back from Guinea, where he had been treating patients.

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TIME: #thebrief: What are the rights of people quarantined for Ebola? 10/23/2014 9 minutes ago

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StreetInsider: Ebola Stocks on Watch on Possible New York Case October 23, 2014 2:59PM

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33-year-old, Dr. Craig Spencer quarantined himself inside his Harlem apartment AFTER his fever spiked via Business Insider 31 minutes ago

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Pray it's a false alarm, and this is just a touch of flu or some less alarming malady easily treated and cured. If positive, he's been in NYC for 10 days...God only knows how many contacts he's made.

UKDailyMail:
Dr Spencer is being tested for the Ebola virus as well as malaria, salmonella and stomach flu. The results are expected in 12 hours.

Quote: "On October 16, he checked in at a hotel in Brussels, Belgium, presumably on his return journey from Guinea to the U.S. "

Today is the 23rd . ..that is less than ten days ago. 

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Friday, October 17, 2014

EBOLA NEWS 10-17-2014 ----- UPATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY






Super-Genius Barack Obama: We’ll Keep Ebola Out Of America By Letting West Africans In

“I don’t have a philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe,” President Obama said on Thursday. 
Obama said the experts have advised him that it’s more effective to let West Africans into the U.S. than it would be to keep them out. 
“The problem is that in all the discussions I’ve had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease, is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting, that involve screening passengers who are coming from West Africa.” 
Obama said it’s important to continue screening West Africans before they get on planes and then after they arrive in the U.S. to see if they’re showing signs of disease. Sick people should get medical evaluations, he said. And people who are not sick should list their contact information.
And yet, remember, this from yesterday:


NPR, July, 2014: The Only Solution To Ebola Is Total Containment


Just to be clear, I'm not saying NPR are more expert than the head of the CDC. What I'm saying is the healthcare workers depicted in the NPR article show, by their actions, that absolute containment is the only thing that works. They even contain people SUSPECTED of having Ebola. They don't allow them to travel. They quarantine them absolutely. 

And yet, now that it Ebola is a problem in the US, suddenly absolute containment is not the answer?!?

It's almost as if the Obama Administration is more concerned with the political fallout of Ebola than they are with the health of the American people.


Let's not forget this additional 'coincidental' coordinating effort making it possible for these new visa holders to simply blend into society without any regard for the pestilence they may bring with them...

WashingtonTImes: Ebola in the U.S.: Stricter travel quarantine practices dropped by Obama admin. in 2010 
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Texas-Based Carnival Magic Cruise Ship Stuck At Sea With 4,633 Passengers and Dallas Healthcare Worker With Ebola Symptoms – Belize Refuses Port Entry – Belizeans Saying “Sink Ship” – Armed Belize Coast Guard Keeping Ship At Sea…
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BusinessInsider:
Health Worker Who May Have Had Contact With Ebola Patient Is On A Cruise Ship Right Now

Belizean: Belize confirms patient with Ebola symptoms on cruise ship off it’s coast

Quote: "The GoB reassures the public that the passenger never set foot in Belize and while we remain in close contact with U.S. officials we have maintained the position that when even the smallest doubt remains, we will ensure the health and safety of the Belizean people."

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This is something the current CDC would never say. It is absolutely criminal!
We're all familiar with these ships experience with norovirus sweeping rapidly through to the passengers. Imagine how anxious all the people on that ship are now.

WorldMaritimeNews: Cruise Passenger with Ebola Symptoms Denied Entry to Belize
The Belize government assured their citizens that the passenger never set foot in Belize, but failed to address the situation with other 4,631 passengers and crew reported on the ship.

The Belize Coast Guard is currently preventing anyone from leaving the ship, including the Belizean pilot on board.


Fox&Friends is currently discussing a story out of JFK airport in NY regarding a flight from Africa upon which a passenger DIED...of course, the reporter states Ebola already ruled out.

A passenger died on a Nigeria to JFK flight after a vomiting fit on Thursday - and top lawmaker said officials gave the corpse only a "cursory" exam before declaring that the victim did not have Ebola.



Texas hospital workers who treated Ebola patient placed on no-fly list 

The 75 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital staffers are banned from traveling by plane, train, bus or ship for 21 days after their last contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, the order said. The mandate comes after two of Duncan's nurses contracted the deadly disease — one of whom flew a day before she was diagnosed



 When surviving Ebola becomes a nightmare 
When Jerald Dennis left the Ebola treatment center after surviving the deadly virus that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 of his fellow Liberians, he thought the worst was over.

He was wrong.

Dennis, a 30-year-old non-medical worker at John F. Kennedy Medical Hospital (JFK), Liberia's largest referral hospital, fell prey to the Ebola virus in early September.

"I probably contracted the virus through indirect contact, because you can get it through direct or indirect contact," he told Anadolu Agency in an interview in his home in Monrovia's Matadi district.

Dennis recalled how he began feeling burns on his hands before things became worse, as he experienced severe pain in his head and other parts of his body, later suffering from diarrhea and vomiting as well.


Why Phillipines WONT'T send medics to Ebola-hit areas 
MANILA - The Philippines has rebuffed a US request to dispatch medical workers to Ebola-hit regions, with the health ministry saying boosting the country's defenses against any local outbreaks was the priority. The United Nations has launched a global ...
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Guardian: Ebola vaccine would be available had bioterrorism research been completed


US soldiers get 4 hours of Ebola training before shipping out to West Africa


What would an Ebola Travel Ban actually look like?


Three More Countries Impose Ebola Ban, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago


RedEye: Texas HCW isolated on cruise ship, deemed low risk for Ebola

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AtlantaJournalConstitution: DeKalb Schools block two from school amid Ebola concerns
were blocked from enrolling in DeKalb schools this week as a precaution against the spread of Ebola.

DeKalb school officials said the father worked for CARE, a humanitarian organization, as a finance controller in the Liberia/Sierra Leone office. He returned to the United States on Sept. 14 with his family and tried to enroll the children Wednesday at Dunwoody Elementary and Dunwoody High.
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PDF of Screening Questionaire for Ebola
Although the unidentified woman is being monitored and has not shown symptoms, she has been quarantined on the ship. US officials wanted her to deboard in Belize and fly her home but Belizian officials refused to allow her to travel through Phillip Goldson International Airport. Mexico banned the ship from docking off the coast of Cozumel, preventing any passengers from stepping foot in the country as part of its scheduled port visit.
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The CDC revealed on Thursday that she may have been contagious for her entire trip to Ohio - as early as last Friday
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MSN: People Are Now Apparently Faking Ebola To Get Faster Medical Treatment 
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UTSanDiego
On Thursday reports of a student with flu-like symptoms caused Southwestern College in Chula Vista to cordon off a classroom building.

It was later revealed that the student made up the story that she and her sister had shared a plane with a Dallas nurse who was later diagnosed with Ebola. Later in the day, Southwestern College issued a statement saying the issue was now a student conduct matter, “and will be treated in accordance with the district’s policy and procedures.


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WH: New Ebola Czar will report to Susan Rice

CSPAN clip: HEATED: Rep. Steve Scalise Grills CDC Director Frieden at Ebola House Hearing 10/16/2014
Dr. Frieden refuses to answer yes/no question whether WH discussed banning flights out of hot zone.
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“I am left to conclude that America’s leadership is either guilty of gross misconduct, dereliction of duty, criminal negligence or worse – treason,” writes Davis, warning that the “crisis will undoubtedly spiral out of control” if the advice of incompetent public health authorities, the government and the media continues to be followed unquestionably. Richard C. Davis, M.D., 

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

EBOLA News 10-16-2014 - The Definition of Insanity ---- UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY





The definition of INSANITY: Repeating the same action over and over again, and expectin different results. - Albert Einstein. . .

Who does this administration think they are fooling? Duncan managed to enter the US with Ebola despite the fever checks...the (insert string of obscene profanity here)CDC gave the second Ebola nurse to travel WITH A FEVER! And yet, today's headlines read:

US Steps up domestic response to Ebola crisis
"Customs and health officials at airports in Chicago, Atlanta, the Washington suburbs and Newark, New Jersey, were scheduled to start taking the temperatures of passengers from the three hardest-hit West African countries Thursday. The screenings, using no-touch thermometers, started Saturday at New York's Kennedy International Airport."
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HOW THE HELL IS THAT STEPPING UP?!

Then there is this little tidbit in the same article:

Quote: "Frontier has taken the aircraft out of service. The plane was flown Wednesday without passengers from Cleveland to Denver, where the airline said it will undergo a fourth cleaning, including replacement of seat covers, carpeting and air filters."

Yet this administration insists on allowing passengers from the Ebola hot zones of Western Africa - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea to - 
not only board planes, 
but change planes during connections,
enter mass transit hubs,
and travel freely within unsuspecting populations regardless of whether they were directly exposed to Ebola, as was Duncan, or not.
If and when these modes of transportation carry an infected passenger, the new standard set by Frontier suggests removal of contaminated vehicle from fleet for complete refab at corp. own expense? How sustainable is that, and for how long?
INSANITY!

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Ebola and the Crisis of Managerial Liberalism
ITV: MSF:'We have reached our ceiling in Ebola response October 16, 2014 1:45PM The leading organisation fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has said it has reached the limit of its capacity to help, and called on governments and other groups to step up their efforts.


WPTZ 5: Ebola WHO Cases 
Data shows that the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every four weeks, said Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, director of the World Health Organization's director of global capacity, alert and response. Nuttall was addressing reporters Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland. Earlier this week, the WHO said there could be 5,000 to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week by December.

ABCNews: Ebola Comes to Last Safe District in Sierra Leone 


NY1: DOH Updates Ebola Guidelines for City Schools, Daycares 

USAToday: Doctors say Ebola fears are affecting surgery

 Suspected Ebola patient hospitalised in Denmark 
A person with suspected Ebola infection has been hospitalised at Hvidovre Hospital in Denmark's capital Copenhagen for observation

NBC: Yale-New Haven Hospital Admits Person with Ebola-Like Symptoms

ActionNewsJax: Memorial Hospital monitoring patient with Ebola-like Symptoms 
Data shows that the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every four weeks

Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made this collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.
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Reliapundit notes, Postmodern leftists like Obama would rather have Marshall Law here than a quarantine over there.
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Ebola Travel Bans Enacted by Nearly 30 Countries, but Not US
NewsMax

Here is the complete list of nations with bans or significant travel restrictions:
Gambia,
Nigeria,
Togo,
Gabon,
Ivory Coast,
Senegal,
Rwanda,
Chad,
South Sudan,
Namibia,
Angola,
Botswana,
South Africa,
Congo,
Kenya,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mauritius,
Mozambique,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe,
Cameroon,
Gabon,
Morocco.

Tom Frieden: Too many layers of protection could have upped nurses' Ebola risk


The male doctor speaking at Yale Ebola press conference did not exude confidence given his posture kept falling back to this pose, his hand up at face repeatedly.


You just can't make this stuff up . . .

NBCNews headline: 'Conscientious' Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson Stayed Close to Home in Ohio

The fact that she opted to travel out of state, after knowingly exposed to Ebola (whether she knew she was infected or not) from Texas to Ohio blows apart any characterization of 'conscientious' decisions this nurse made.
Pathetic.

Spain Tests 3 With Fever for Ebola, Isolates Jet

Comedy hour: TheHill: Poll: Most Americans confident in CDC to handle Ebola

USNews: Ebola Travel Ban sought by wave of Congressmen 
The trickle becomes a torrent as Boehner and senators join Rep. Grayson's once-lonely request.Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, John Thune, R-S.D., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., asked Wednesday for travel bans. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., did so Tuesday. A significant number of House members also have called for travel restrictions.


Frieden said that the 48 people whom officials started monitoring two weeks ago had passed a critical period and were now unlikely to contract the disease. They were more than 14 days into the 21-day maximum incubation period. One of them is Duncan’s fiancée, Louise Troh, 54, who has been under state-ordered quarantine with her 13-year-old son and two other young men. “Right now, we’re OK,” she said in a phone interview from the house where she and the others have been staying, in an undisclosed location. “I’m healthy. Everybody’s fine. God is in control.”

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Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Executive Vice President for Texas Health Resources Dr. Daniel Varga was prepared to formally apologize for mistakes made with Duncan’s treatment at Thursday’s U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee’s Congressional hearing in Washington D.C.
In prepared statements released Wednesday night, Dr. Varga is prepared to say, “Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr. Duncan, despite our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes. We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. We are deeply sorry. 
Also, in our effort to communicate to the public quickly and transparently, we inadvertently provided some information that was inaccurate and had to be corrected. No doubt that was unsettling to a community that was already concerned and confused, and we have learned from that experience as well.”
(she responds . .. read the rest at the link)

Dallas Releases 911 CAll for First Ebola Patient 

Audio: Duncan 911call - 9/28/2014 (Audio .wav file)
The voice you hear is that of Youngor Jallah, nurses aid, 35 year old daughter of Louise Troh who cared for Duncan @ Louise's address.

Vinson's stepfather, whose name was not released, self-quarantined himself after Vinson tested positive for the Ebola virus Tuesday.[snip]Vinson, 29, flew to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Oct. 10 and flew home to Dallas on Oct. 13, the day before she was diagnosed. Williams said she spent three days at the home in Tallmadge.
Begs the question: where did she stay the rest of the time?

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Canton nurses on same plane as Amber Vinson treated 13 patients at Aultman Hospital
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Akron bridal store closed after Ebola patient amber Joy Vinson visited
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An Akron elementary school was evacuated after public health officials told the district Vinson had come into contact with the parent of a student this weekend.





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NPR, July, 2014: The Only Solution To Ebola Is Total Containment


Erik Rush writes:
This week, Drs. Thomas Frieden and Anthony Fauci, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases respectively, doubled down on their propaganda, illogic and misrepresentations regarding the procedures for handling the Ebola virus and the dynamics of contagion. 
On Fox News’ “The Kelly File” Tuesday, Frieden gave nebulous assurances that all possible precautions were being taken to combat the spread of Ebola in the U.S., and stated that “we’ve been treating Ebola for decades.”
The truth is, Frieden ruled out a travel ban FROM West Africa. That is to say, he made it clear there will be no ban against people from West Africa traveling to the United States.

So, is this normally the way Ebola is treated?

Erik Rush goes on:
...  all of this experience (in "treating" Ebola) has been restricted to the African continent, where conditions are so abysmal that absolute containment has been the norm. This has included quarantines, travel bans, martial law and the burning of entire villages after outbreaks. 
As far as treatment goes, the only thing anyone has been able to do for Ebola patients to date is to make them as comfortable as possible until they either recover or die.
 That doesn't sound like "treatment" to me. That sounds like isolation.

In fact, I have heard it said, the only thing that has stopped an outbreak of Ebola in the past is the fact that it has affected rural areas which are natural isolated from other areas. And that once it works it's way through the local population, it is effectively over because it has no other human to affect.

Here's an interview from NPR, with a Ebola healthcare worker, July 2014:

Can you describe the treatment center?
It's basically a compound with a series of different tents. There are tents where people get suited up to go in. Another tent seems to be for storage, and one of the tents contains a lab. Then there's a double fence about 3 1/2 feet high, made of orange plastic mesh. They designed the fence so people can see where the patients are, so it wouldn't seem as if the patients are completely walled off.
Why a double fence?
So no one can get within 6 feet of someone who has Ebola. In case a patient from the isolation area reaches out or vomits, [Doctors Without Borders] wants to make sure there won't be any accidental contamination.

How do the doctors record information on the patients?

Doctors go into the isolation area completely suited up, do their rounds and write down what's happening with patients. Then they stand next to the fence and shout out to people on the other side of the fence [information about each patient]. Say, for patient 105, the doctor says, "diarrhea, vomiting." Then the doctor's notes [made inside the isolation area] are burned.

Where do they burn the notes?

They have a big pit in the back.

What else do they burn?

They burn everything. They say nothing comes out of isolation — although obviously they're taking blood samples out. People come out. They strip off their protective gear, the Tyvek suits they put over their entire body and shoes.

When they get suited up, you do not see a bit of skin as they're going in. There are multiple layers of gloves, goggles, a mask. As they're coming out all that stuff gets stripped off. Some things like rubber aprons and boots are disinfected and reused. But they burn the whole suit. A suit costs about 60 euros [about $80], and they use 70 or 80 suits a day.

What do you know about the isolation area?

There are about nine tents inside, with patients separated by whether they are suspect, probable or confirmed cases. 
Ok, so this tells us a lot. It tells us

1) the way to "treat" Ebola is to treat it as if it's going to kill anyone who comes in contact with it.

2) all clothes, notes, bodies, etc., must be burned. Nothing can be allowed to leave the Ebola tent.

3) EVEN INSIDE THE TENT, which is completely isolated from human beings, THERE ARE "PROBABLE" AND "SUSPECT" CASES. People who MIGHT have Ebola are put in the tent, even if the Doctors are not SURE they have Ebola.

So, if this is the case, do you believe Thomas Frieden when he implies he is doing everything he can do, and that it is reasonable to allow people to travel from Ebola Hot Zones INTO the United States?

Do you believe him?

I don't.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

EBOLA NEWS 10-15-14 - To Be Updated Throughout the Day








Appears CDC's definition of 'quarantine' needs review as well: 
The second healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola last night flew by air Oct. 13th, the day before she reported symptoms, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a release. 
She flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The CDC is asking all 132 passengers on the flight to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800-232-4636). Passengers will be monitored for symptoms and interviewed about the flight.





Related?
BreakingNews: Local reporter @DavidSchechter says family have told him that the newest Dallas Ebola patient is 26-year old Amber Joy Vinson, a registered nurse. We will update when we have further confirmation. - Grace

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The health care worker had flown from Dallas to Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 10. The flight she took back to Dallas on Monday arrived at 8:16 p.m. and remained overnight, because it was done with flights for the day.
After that, the plane “received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures” before resuming service on Tuesday, Frontier said in a statement. It was also cleaned on Tuesday night in Cleveland, the airline said.

Nurses outraged: 'There was no protocol, there was no system'

 ABC5 updated 3 minutes ago The patient flew into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Oct. 10 and out Oct. 13. She came to Akron to visit family, the Ohio Department of Health reports.

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"The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the Universityof Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientificand epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles,” including exhaled breath."
MEANWHILE:
Current page on Ebola at OSHA, Quick Facts:
Ebola virus and EHF do not pose a threat to most U.S. workers.At this time, there is not an EBola outbreak in the U.S. The ongoing outbreak is limited to countries in West Africa . . .

This is your progressive government in action.

Twitter from Jon Gabriel
"The people screwing up the Ebola response? Soon they'll run our entire healthcare system.



Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases 

Note also, family members have suggested Duncan’s 19-year-old son, Karsiah, has been indefinitely barred from Angelo State University, where he attends college - . University officials denied that, saying he could return whenever he likes.

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 A female passenger dressed in a hazmat suit — complete with a full body gown, mask and gloves — was spotted Wednesday waiting for a flight at the airport. Another traveler snapped a photo of the woman and provided it to The Daily Caller.




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Flashback: CDC Identifies Ten Individuals as Being At "High Risk" of Infection from Thomas Eric Duncan; Those Individual Were Told Not to Travel Outside of Dallas

From Ace:

Despite this nurse obviously being a "High Risk" case -- I assume she was, anyway; if she was not on the High Risk list, that opens up a huge Pandora's box of questions -- she was not, apparently, restrained from flying (despite being within the 21 days when ebola is present but not symptomatic), nor were any special precautions before boarding (taking her temperature), nor did the CDC tell Frontier Air to decontaminate its planes.
But hey man -- she was being "closely monitored" out of "an abundance of caution."
Silly me, I thought the High Risk Cases would be confined to their apartments during their 21 days of possible asymptomatic infection.

The Washington Post's Hacktastic Plum Line: America's Fears About Ebola Are Just Due to Media Scare-Mongering

—Ace

The Democrat-Media Complex is blaming the Democratic-Media Complex for the allegedly undue panic about ebola.
Reliable Democrat spinner Paul Waldman at the Plum Line says "Congratulations, media," about the public's fear of ebola, then makes the case that heck, only two people have gotten Ebola in the US so far, and twenty four people have been struck by lightning so far this year alone.
Yeah here's the problem with that: Lightning strikes are not prone to exponential increase the way that an epidemic is. Lightning strikes are a stable phenomenon.
Lightning strikes are not doubling every three weeks as they are in West Africa.
The Secretary General of the UN stated:
The Ebola crisis has evolved into a complex emergency, with significant political, social, economic, humanitarian and security dimensions. The suffering and spillover effects in the region and beyond demand the attention of the entire world. Ebola matters to us all. The outbreak is the largest the world has ever seen. The number of cases is doubling every three weeks. There will soon be more cases in Liberia alone than in the four-decade history of the disease. In the three most affected countries -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the disease is destroying health systems. More people are now dying in Liberia from treatable ailments and common medical conditions than from Ebola....

The gravity and scale of the situation now require a level of international action unprecedented for a health emergency.
And, actually, we've had the first doubling in America these past two weeks too. Yes, it is a minor doubling, from one to two, but you cannot proceed to four, nor eight, nor 16, nor 32, without that first doubling.
One could expect the "doubling rate" in America to be slower than in Liberia. Liberians apparently have cultural practices that make the spread of the disease easier, such as the touching of the dead. Then again, I'm pretty sure the word has gotten out in Liberia -- do not touch the dead -- and yet the doubling continues.
Liberia doesn't have the health care system we do, sure. So again, we could expect the doubling rate to be slower.
But it is the nature of epidemics to double, even if slowly. And it doesn't take many doublings at all to get to truly staggering numbers -- by the twentieth doubling, two becomes just over one million.
WHO, by the way, says to expect 10,000 new ebola cases a week in West Africa.
I don't think the American people are wrong to take a serious health risk seriously. I also don't think they're panicking -- I think they're alarmed, as they should be.
Paul Waldman seems to take the fact that 67% of the public wants a travel ban from West Africa as a sign of panic, and then notes "experts say" such a ban could make things worse.
It seems to me that Paul Waldman concludes the public is in an unnecessary and irrational panic based on having a different position on a Travel Ban than Obama.
This is the same position that Obama Zealots always take: If you disagree with Obama, you are guilty of some sort of defect in thinking, whether it is "racism," "hating women," or, now, being irrationally afraid of the outbreak of a disease well into its exponential doubling phase and which kills 50% of people infected with it.


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