The patient in Texas was put in one of the available hospital isolation units and the 3 paramedics have been put into a 21 day isolation at home. But the CDC admits that this patient may have infected others. How long would it take to fill all the isolation units, doctors are infected, and all the EMT's are in isolation or are walking away from their jobs?
It was just two weeks ago Obama said it would be unlikely that Ebola would reach the US. Google "Ebola unlikely" and you'll see everything Ebola is "unlikely" to do-- go airborne, spread by airplane, become a pandemic... There is no way the US will consider limiting flights and quarantining people from countries with the Ebola epidemic. It never hurts to have a small stock of bleach, gloves, masks, plastic sheeting, food and water... and get yourself a copy of the Richard Preston's Hot Zone if you haven't read it. Its a really horrifying virus. - Brad On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:51 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > And so it begins exactly as I predicted: He went to the emergency room with > flu like symptoms and they ... wait for it .... SENT HIM HOME. > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:08 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sorry but since none of the usual "policy experts" want to touch this with >> a ten-foot poll, it is shaping up to have some features in common with other >> civilization-impacting failures of "policy experts" with which this list is >> all-too familiar: >> >> Early symptoms of Ebola are "flu-like" and it is contagious during these >> "flu-like" symptoms. Now ... consider the fact that flu season is upon us. >> But you know what's _really_ frightening about this? Not one of the goddamn >> idiot "authorities" has even mentioned, let alone assessed, this confounding >> situation's impact on public health containment measures. >> >> Now THAT'S frightening! >> >> Read the CDC's guidelines on monitoring and movement of persons with >> "exposure" and tell me their guidelines work for a country in the throes of >> massive incidence of "flu-like symptoms". > >
