Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Yet Another Ebola Case In Dallas (With Addendum)

Confirmed: another healthcare worker who took care of pathogen-carrying, pathogen-spreading criminal Thomas Eric Duncan has Ebola.

Now there are two cases from an individual index patient. An outbreak is not contained until there are fewer than two additional cases from any one individual index case.

As if the above isn't bad enough...No hospital 'protocols' for Ebola treatment: US nurses' group.


Nurses Union Releases Statement That Ebola Patient Duncan Was Left In Open Area of the ER For Hours


A statement from National Nurses United also says Thomas Eric Duncan was left in an open area of an emergency room for hours. 
A spokesman for the group says nurses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments. It's said that the patient had explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting. 
In a conference call with reporters executive director RoseAnn DeMoro says the allegations are based on revelations from "a few" nurses and that the claims were vetted. 
The nurses also said that Duncan's lab samples were allowed to travel through the hospital's pneumatic tubes, opening the possibility of contaminating the specimen delivery system. The nurses also alleged that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling.
AND HERE'S THE GUY WHO IS LEADING US:

CDC Director Frieden: If the US Bans Travel From West Africa Ebola Will Spread



Meanwhile, some 4500 West Africans with visas enter the United States every month. How many new index cases are among them?

Additional reading...Ebola Preparation ‘Will bankrupt my hospital!’ Director Reacts to CDC Prep Call.

ADDENDUM

Tammy Swofford's comment this morning at my blog site:
I have discussed with AOW for literal weeks (since the Ebola numbers climbed in W. Africa) that we were unprepared for Ebola in America.

This morning I called her. Tears are streaming down my face and I do not cry easily. When I saw images of nurses with their necks exposed on videos, supposedly "ready" for Ebola, I knew we were doomed. Having trained constantly and consistently in the USNR for chem-bio scenarios wearing MOPP IV gear in sweltering heat, I KNOW what it takes to train and be safe. The military, does it right. Period. They set the standard. They set the standard in many things in medicine.

For weeks, I have brought this concern to my own hospital. Finally, we will provide training for critical care nurses. Now that a unit of labor is down, and nurses may flee the hospitals in Dallas, we will train. And then, in an act of bureaucratic genius, we will have "daily briefings" on Ebola.

We cannot talk Ebola to death. We can only contain Ebola by proper gear, worn by healthcare workers with weeks (not one damn session) of training in wearing the gear.

How many nurses will die because of bureaucratic incompetence and callous disregard for our lives? Naturally, my own hospital will continue along with their yearly holiday tradition of gratitude for our labor. We get a fifteen dollar Target card to cover Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Yeah, now you understand the sacrifices that nurses make for you every day.

And how many clients did the nurses infect after they cared for Mr. Duncan?

Tammy Swofford
Reporting from the hot zone

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Would not surprise or shock me to read that nurses refuse to work under current standard.

FWIW . ..

Here is a list of reported close associates of Duncan and his fiance, Louise Troh which I've skimmed from reports since his diagnosis:

Nowai Gartey Korkoyah, mother of Duncan - no known contact with Duncan

Wilfred Smallwood - Duncan's half-brother located in Phoenix no known contact

OLIVER SMALLWOOD, Wilfred's 21-year-old son is among the friends and family members remaining in quarantine.

LOUISE TROH - fiance/girlfriend - Duncan stayed with Louise for 8 days

YOUNGOR JALLA, (nurses aid)- 35 yr old daughter of Louise Troh cared for Duncan at Louise's residence

TIMOTHY WAYNE - 13 year old son, resided in Louise's residence while Duncan currently in quarantine

Mahwhen Jallah, 28, daughter of Louise Troh unknown if contact made


Mai Wureh, Duncan’s half-sister, arrived with her husband in the US in 1989, unknown if contact made

Troh's two older sons:

Dwana & Emen still reside in Liberia no contact

Another daughter of Louise's,

Kebbeh Jallah died with her baby in Monrovia Liberia in Feb. during failed C-section No Contact

Karsiah Duncan, 19 yr old college student @ Angelo State University - of Troh/Duncan
hasn’t been around his father since he was three years old; no known contact

Josephus Weeks, nephew of Duncan unknown if contact made

Saymendy Lloyd - friend of Louise Troh; unknown if contact made

Princes Duo - considers Troh like a mother; unknown if contact made

Note: Kasiah, Youngor and later Mawhen joined Louise in US in 2005-06

George Mason, pastor of the east Dallas church that Duncan’s girlfriend attends unknown if contact made

Tonia Wordsworth friend of Duncan's from time in Monrovia, now lives in Calverton, Maryland called Duncan a "dutiful" young man who was "like a brother."; unknown if contact made

Wilmot Chayee, 51-year-old dietitian friend in Ghana; unknown if contact made