Everyone realizes that the CDC has no authority at the present time to enforce any protocols or anything, right?
Yes, phone operator screwed up with Nurse 2 if this is true. But the real lapse here is the local/state health department down there in Dallas (not to mention the hospital). They absolutely did NOT oversee that their facilities were ready for Ebola (or any other contagious disease, apparently), up to date on CDC guidelines, and ready to handle even just ONE case, never mind a handful or more.
CBS News ‏@CBSNews 27s27 seconds ago
Ebola nurse called CDC several times before boarding flight http://cbsn.ws/1ssstwf
Just WOW. She would not have been allowed to board in West Africa.............DR> GUPTA CNN. jmo
Amarillo TX- A patient showing Ebola like symptoms is currently in isolation at Baptist Saint Anthony's Hospital.
The patient went to BSA Hospital at around 4:00 PM today.
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Everyone realizes that the CDC has no authority at the present time to enforce any protocols or anything, right?
Yes, phone operator screwed up with Nurse 2 if this is true. But the real lapse here is the local/state health department down there in Dallas (not to mention the hospital). They absolutely did NOT oversee that their facilities were ready for Ebola (or any other contagious disease, apparently), up to date on CDC guidelines, and ready to handle even just ONE case, never mind a handful or more.
http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/story.aspx?id=1110202#.VD8MiPnF_BY
ETA AMARILLO, TEXAS -- UPDATE 6:30pm:
Officials at BSA tell Pronews 7 the Emergency Room is no longer on lock down.
And, they tell us the person the patient came in contact with had not traveled to an affected country in the last 21 days.
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Still trying to figure out how Duncan's family,who lived in close quarters with him when he was acutely ill,unprotected,managed not to develop ebola,and protected nurses did.Testing for fevers at airports will not work at airports when flu season is upon us.Neither will asking if a patient travelled recently to Africa....what about travel to Dallas,Cleveland as well?
We need a CDC/National Health dept/bureau/whatever with the TEETH to enforce these things. As it is, we have so many in the country who oppose anything being done on the federal level, leaving it all up to the states and localities.
So you will get one outcome in Dallas, and you might get a completely different outcome here in Massachusetts, where public health is heavily funded and we have some of the best hospitals in the country, if not the world. We are lucky that we have strong health funding and enforcement here. I feel badly for folks in states where they do not.
So the nurses treated him when he was in his last few days or earlier?