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ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh -
"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."Comment
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I stayed home. Maybe I will go panic tomorrow.Originally posted by YALE View PostFuck you. We're going to Costco.Comment
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Panic at the disco!Originally posted by talismanOriginally posted by AdamLXOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyOriginally posted by 80coupeOriginally posted by Rick ModenaOriginally posted by JesterComment
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Looks like the nurse that came down with ebola sat in the ER for 90 minutes before she was isolated.
By MELISSA REPKO and SHERRY JACOBSON
Staff Writers
mrepko@dallasnews.com; sjacobson@dallasnews.com
Published: 12 October 2014 05:18 AM
Updated: 12 October 2014 03:54 PM
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A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital health care worker in Dallas who had “extensive contact” with the first Ebola patient to die in the United States has contracted the disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta confirmed the news Sunday afternoon after an official test.
The infected person detected a fever Friday night and drove herself to the Presbyterian emergency room, where she was placed in isolation 90 minutes later. A blood sample sent to the state health lab in Austin confirmed Saturday night that she had Ebola — the first person to contract the disease in the United States.
The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that the infection in the health care worker, who was not on the organization’s watch list for people who had contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, resulted from a “breach in protocol.”
"We have spoken with the health care worker," who cannot "identify the specific breach" that allowed the infection to spread, said CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden. The CDC has sent additional staff members to Dallas to “assist with the response,” he said.
Frieden said exposure can result from a “single inadvertent slip.” He cautioned: "Unfortunately it is possible in the coming days we will see additional cases of Ebola" in health care workers.
Texas health commissioner David Lakey said the health care worker had "extensive contact" with Duncan. The nurse, who missed two days of work before going to the emergency room, is believed to have had contact with one person while symptomatic. Ebola, which is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person, can only be transmitted from infected people showing symptoms.
"We have been preparing for an event like this,” Lakey said.
Presbyterian chief clinical officer Daniel Varga said the exposure occurred during Duncan’s second visit to the hospital. Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the United States, went to the Presbyterian emergency room Sept. 25 and was sent home with antibiotics only to return to the hospital on Sept. 28. He was diagnosed with Ebola and died Oct. 8.
It is not clear how the health care provided contracted Ebola. According to Duncan's patient records released by the family to The Associated Press, this is what happened at Presbyterian:
— On Sept. 28, an ambulance with Duncan arrived at the hospital’s emergency bay shortly after 10 a.m.
— Doctors performed tests on Duncan, who told them he had recently arrived from Africa, and determined he had sinusitis.
— Now in isolation, Duncan was projectile vomiting, having explosive diarrhea and his temperature was 103.1 degrees.
— On Sept. 29, as his condition worsened, Duncan asked the nurse to put him in a diaper.
— On Sept. 30, tests results confirmed Duncan had Ebola. Only then did staff treating Duncan trade their gowns and scrubs for hazmat suits, and the room was cleaned with bleach.
Varga at Presbyterian said the worker was wearing protective gear, including a gown, glove, mask and shield, when she came into contact with Duncan. “This individual was following full CDC precautions,” Varga said
Officials haven’t released the name of the health care worker or her job description. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he has spoken to the health care worker's parents, who have asked for privacy.
"Let's remember that this is a real person who is going through a great ordeal. So is that person's family," Jenkins said.
The second Ebola patient lives in the 5700 block of Marquita Avenue in East Dallas, where the person’s apartment was going to be decontaminated Sunday. While the CDC didn’t consider the person to be at “high risk” of contracting Ebola, the health care worker had been monitoring for signs of the disease, including checking for fever twice daily.
The person's car was decontaminated and the common area of an apartment complex was going to be cleaned by a hazardous-material team Sunday.
A crew of 15 people from the Cleaning Guys was going to decontaminate the person’s apartment Sunday afternoon, said company owner Erick McCallum. "Our main objective is for this to go away and to be eradicated," he said.
Staff writers Melissa Repko, Sherry Jacobson, Claire Cardona, Eva-Marie Ayala and Matthew Haag contributed to this report.
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I didn't panic today, but I did make sure to pretend like everything was ok.sigpicComment
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It amazes me how they repeatedly screw up the safety procedures.Originally posted by Forever_frost View PostComment
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Well that just went to not good.Comment
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Thats the issue with not being scared, you relax and make mistakes. I would rather them treat this like it was the beginning of the apocalypse and get people scared enough to make the protocols stick.Originally posted by line-em-up View PostComment
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I have a problem with them not releasing the name of the new patient. I want to know who it is so we can find out who they have been in contact with.Comment
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Sounds like a series of cluster fucks.Comment
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CNN is reporting breaking news on a potential, new Ebola case in the United States:
A patient who has been to Liberia presented himself Sunday at a medical center in Braintree, Massachusetts, complaining of headache and muscle aches.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we immediately notified authorities and the patient was securely removed from the building and put into an ambulance now headed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The building was closed briefly but has now reopened,” Ben Kruskal, chief of infectious disease at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, said in a statement.
On CBS’ Face the Nation this morning, the Centers For Disease Control’s director, Dr. Tom Friedan told Bob Schieffer that a Texas hospital worker who has now tested positive for Ebola “provided care for Duncan ‘on multiple occasions after his diagnosis.’
Friedan stressed the need for medical personnel coming in contact with Ebola patients to follow safety protocol. The Daily Signal reports:
“We’re deeply concerned about this new development with a preliminary positive [test for Ebola],” CDC Director Thomas Frieden said. “The fact that we don’t know about a breach in protocol is concerning because, clearly, there was a breach in protocol.”
“…Even a single breach [of safety protocol] can result in contamination,” he said. “We have the ability to prevent the spread of Ebola by caring safely for patients.”
We will keep you posted as the story continues to develop.
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its not rocket science. I work in a hospital donning PPE and taking it off is something we do every day. In fact, id say about 40% of the people in my ICU right now are on contact or droplet isolation. We do the same thing day in and day out.Originally posted by jyro View Post
oh and btw.. I hope the majority of the media gets ebola for all this bullshit fear mongering. Its a whopping 4000 people in the last fucking year. Who cares?Comment
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