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Dallas Nurse Caught Ebola Because CDC Protocols Are Inadequate
Building Safer Protocols Isn’t Rocket Science … It’s Just Common Sense
A nurse in Dallas has caught Ebola even though she was wearing full protective gear.
The Centers for Disease Control says she must have broken protocol, or else she couldn’t have caught it. Maybe she did … or maybe CDC assumptions are overly-optimistic.
But the whole point of protocols for dealing with life-and-death situations is to have backup systems, redundancy and a margin of error in case something goes wrong.
In other words, if a mistake could be fatal, you don’t just hope that there’s no human error or natural accident. You build safety systems in so that – if something goes wrong – no one dies.
Safe Removal of Protective Suits
CDC head Frieden said today that removal of protective clothing is one of the easiest ways to get exposed to Ebola, if done incorrectly.
He also said that it is “not easy to do right.”
Yes …and the protocol should reflect those facts.
Specifically, the CDC protocol should require:
(1) Spraying of bleach or other disinfectant or uv light on the healhcare worker’s protective clothing before it is removed
(2) A buddy system, where an infectious disease specialist helps the healthcare worker take off their protective clothing without exposing themselves in the process
Respirators
Even the CDC now admits that Ebola can be spread if a carrier coughs or sneezes into the face of a healthcare worker.
And numerous scientists say that Ebola can be spread via aerosols created by vomit or the flushing of a toilet.
As such, CDC protocols must require frontline healthcare workers treating Ebola patients to wear respirators.
Phone Screening
Doctors should not have to guess whether patients have just come from Ebola hotzone countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.
Receptionists at doctor’s offices and hospitals around the country must ask the patient on the phone – before they come in – whether they’ve recently traveled there.
If the answer is yes, extra caution should be used to examine the patient … or they should be sent to specialist facilities which know how to spot and handle potential Ebola patients.
Postscript: We think a travel ban from hotzone countries should be enacted. But if we're not going to do that, let's at least have a real screening test ...
30-Minute Test
A majority of Americans support banning all flights to the United States from countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak.
Screening people at West African airports with a thermometer can’t work, and is just for show.
But Japanese scientists have developed a test which can determine if someone has Ebola within 30 minutes. And the test is cheaper than the one currently being used in West Africa.
So – if we’re going to continue to allow folks from West Africa to fly into our country – why don’t we demand that they get tested for real?
A health agency like the World Health Organization, UN or Centers for Disease Control should buy the international airports in the hotzone countries one of the Japanese testing kits.
Then all travelers should be tested while they’re waiting for their flights.
Make sense?
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Have you done a search for such images?
I just did and found plenty of them. Whether they're true and accurate or not is another story.
If this ebola scare is a hoax that has been concocted for some purpose is not known by us muppets. If it is really a significant medical threat then we are in for some big trouble.
Just like everything else, the healthcare industry (sickcare if you prefer) has been financialized. If people start dropping like flies the bankers will not be able to QE this away. MSM will not be able to spin it away and the MIC will not be able to drone or bomb this away. What are the other typical responses to any recent problem, fake or real? No-knock warrants? Civil Forfeiture? Tax hikes? Make health insurance mandatory? None of that shit will help.
Every single illness/remedy is an actuarialized commodity for trading on Wall Street and the people that actually work in healthcare are just costs that have been getting cut. Yeah yeah, blaming Wall Street is a tired meme...and so is "US Healthcare is the best in the world". I think most people know which one of those is true. It's not the best but it's the most expensive.
This is a medical problem that needs a medical solution. Instead of that there will be a financialized solution because that's what happens all the time and it doesn't work.
12Tooth -
This is a link to a short vid that is a montage of stills of Ebola victims. It is NOT pretty, may be NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpESL3klFUY
This youtube shows lots of nothing, except, Kevin Spacey in makeup? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rpESL3klFUY#t=147
Inconclusive at best. It begins with a stock image of what looks like it should be ebola and fails to deliver. This would fit the pattern of programming you to use your mind to fill in the rest. People have been trained their entire lives through television to be highly suggestable. There are more people in Tyvek than there are people shown to be "sick" - and the overwhelming majority of obvious illnesses could EASILY be any number of things besides Ebola.
I counted 5 images, mostly towards the end, that could conceivably be ebola. There are lots of fruit bats and fear porn though!
As I was taught in a course on policy analysis, "Information is always incomplete, uncertain, and expensive."
The vid I linked is definitely not conclusive, but does have some representative, and disturbing, images. Thought there were more than 5; don't know what else would cause skin lesions like that, but I wan't keeping a tally.
Another vid I saw yesterday did not pass the smell test: white journalist and a cameraman cruising araound one of the hot zones in W Africa, talking to the natives about the shortage of hospital beds, etc. It really, really seemed like they probably went around handing out $5 bills to people to have them recite a few lines for the camera. I guess that would be safer, wouldn't even have to go to a hot zone for that.
Because it doesn't actually exist, or isn't Ebola. This whole situation is theater to accomplish a goal.
Pass the popcorn.
Like Sandy Hook?
Apparently the school had been shut down for a few years when the tragedy happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuGBz8ZhUs
Endless other examples on youtube including Gene Rosen the weirdo.
Job to not have at present: Receptionist at doctor's office or hospital.
Family member works at a hospital in Texas (not Dallas). Said that someone came in with ebola-like symptoms and one of the aides quit on the spot. If this thing kicks off for real, expect a lot more of that.
I used to think that one of the worst jobs would be the guy who picks up the dead bodies in Liberia, Guinea and Serria Leone... but thanks to the magic of the invisible hands of the Market new wealth-making opportunities are being created daily...
MONROVIA, Liberia—Some of the teams sent to retrieve bodies of suspected Ebola victims here are collecting cash instead, allegedly accepting bribes to issue death certificates to families saying their loved ones died of other causes and leaving the body, locals and health workers say.
It is a troubling development for an outbreak in which dead bodies are a major source of contagion and one that suggests local corruption could help undermine the international effort to contain the virus.
Liberian funerals typically include washing the body and keeping it for a wake that can last days as relatives and friends come by and kiss the corpse before it is buried, often in a family cemetery nearby. In addition, Ebola infection carries a stigma in the country and people sometimes don’t want to admit a family member died of the disease.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/some-ebola-stricken-african-families-pay-...
Just park the god damned jets already
Exactly.
Watched an interesting interview with the head of a nurse's union on PBS tonight.
She said 76% had not received face-to-face training on the current protocols and did not have the proper equipment.
46 State survey of working RN's in the Union; they wanted proper equipment and training and were not getting it.
Probably "too expensive" in the view of the corporate hospitals and the MBA managers.