TOTALLY GEEKED!

VoiceOfReason wrote:

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Czech, I hope not. Those nurses are heros.

They're talking about the "copious" amount of fluids that nurses deal with while caring for ebola patients. Ugh.

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We have a patient here in Omaha. Yeah, nurses are talking about relinquishing their licenses.

A major disaster team was set up after 9/11 in our state. All nurses are registered to serve in case of a disaster. An ebola outbreak of major proportions would qualify for enactment of the disaster protocol.

I will relinquish mine in a heartbeat to save my family. 

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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If the hospital doesn't step up to the plate, then you might see a mass walkout by health care workers. They shouldn't have to die because hospitals are too cheap or lazy to get the proper equipment.

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Not only health care workers, but janitors, maintenance, food services, laundry, and cleaning workers. There will be a massive affect to all at risk. People don't realize what all health care truly entails. And their families, friends, the business's they frequent, etc. I hope you all get the picture that this is not just a nurses issue.  

DALLAS (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who has contracted Ebola told a U.S. health official she had a slight fever and was allowed to board a plane from Ohio to Texas, a federal source said on Wednesday, intensifying concerns about the U.S. response to the deadly virus.

The nurse, Amber Vinson, 29, flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

Vinson told the CDC her temperature was 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius). Since that was below the CDC's temperature threshold of 100.4F (38C), "she was not told not to fly," the source said. The news was first reported by CNN.

Chances that other passengers were infected were very low because Vinson did not vomit on the flight and was not bleeding, but she should not have been aboard, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-health-official-allowed-new-ebola-patient-on-plane-with-slight-fever/ar-AA6SMSo

Vinson's trip to visit family members in Ohio put a second U.S. metropolitan area on Ebola alert. She is related to three Kent State University employees and the school's health services director, Dr. Angela DeJulius, said they had been asked to remain off campus for 21 days.

They will monitor themselves for possible symptoms of Ebola, she said.

Cleveland Clinic and the Metro Health System said they had put on paid leave employees, mostly nurses, who were on Vinson's flight to Cleveland from Dallas. They were returning from a nursing conference in Texas.

Ohfour wrote:

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The fact that she FLEW ON A PLANE, knowing she had been exposed. They are scrambling to find the passengers to have them tested. And if the plane flew after she did (most certainly), then all of THOSE people have to be tested too.

She needs to be held accountable...

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 I haven't gotten to the end of this thread yet, so if this has already been addressed, my apologies. The local news (Austin) reported that the nurse disclosed that she had treated the ebola patient and the CDC cleared her to fly. She isn't the one that needs to be held accountable IMHO.

We'll see.

I'm watching the house panel grilling the cdc. My head is ready to effing explode.

The posturing and fake indignation is astounding. And idiotic.

Dr. Fauci says the concern is a mutated virus. There are 5 strains currently. If it mutates we're in trouble.

VoiceOfReason wrote:

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Dr. Fauci says the concern is a mutated virus. There are 5 strains currently. If it mutates we're in trouble.

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 Yes.  If it gets airborne, about 50% of us are dead within a year if it is not contained.

VoiceOfReason wrote:

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I like the republican from Missouri. He just off loaded on them for being fear mongering.

He said he has no doubt that travel restrictions will be imposed and it will make as much sense as cleaning the plane 4 times. It's for show but doesn't change a thing.

Like that guy a lot.

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 I don't think I follow the logic that travel restrictions won't help more than cleaning a plane 4 times.  The plane should have been clean after the first time.  But travel restrictions?  Those could help if done properly.  We now have potential ebola cases in Ohio because of TRAVEL. 

There is one in Atlanta at Emory.

Is there another somewhere?


I don't want to play with this. This will be the first year we all get the Flu Vaccine simply because I don't want to confuse the symptoms and end up in an ER with someone else who may have Ebola. No it isn't about freaking out. It is more about not taking an unnecessary risk.

And if it is ever linked to the school my boys are in. I will pull them in a heart beat and we will become home schoolers. Their are plenty of online class rooms to do that now. Even their school has virtual rooms.

I am not willing to risk my family's health with this.

FNW wrote:

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Nina Pham. The Dallas nurse. Your nurse died.

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Oh. Well why are they sending them to different places? I don't understand.

 

FNW wrote:

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Nina Pham. The Dallas nurse. Your nurse died.

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 Wait...WHAT?!!?????

www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/16/dallas-nurse-nina-pham-will-be-transferred-to-nih-facility-in-bethesda-maryland/

lilyofcourse wrote:

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So the one who flew after talking to the CDC with symptoms died first.

She must have been far worse than reported cause that was way faster than the others have progressed.

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 Right.  

 

Neither nurse died.

So the nurse hasn't died?

OK.

This was predicted to happen a long time ago. It finally arrived and now the CDC is failing all over the place, IMHO.
I no longer have much faith in the CDC. Epic fail in the making, I'm afraid.

Ohfour wrote:

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Just another Obama failure...But we'll just give him a pass AGAIN...right???

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Oh, he11 no. 

Ohfour wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Just another Obama failure...But we'll just give him a pass AGAIN...right???

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Oh, he11 no. 

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 You know they will...

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Oh, I know they will, but I won't. The planes should have been stopped from those countries a long time. But, that ship has sailed.