E-Bola

A health care industry insider I know tells me there's an ebola case in Atlanta as well.

 

You mean like the NBC medical reporter who was supposedly being isolated but decided her getting a takeout dinner was more important?

 

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Proving once again how on top of this all those in charge really aren't.

 

I suspected it was Obama's fault, but wasn't sure until you pointed it out.

 

Well, he didn't kill us all with swine flu, so it was only a matter of time until he tried again with something else.

 

He wants us to be like the rest of the world- we might as well be suffused with its diseases.

 

Yep. I heard he's even contacted General Zod about borrowing his World Engine.

 

Regarding nurses training and supplies - whatever Ebola training there has been has happened since this patient turned up in Dallas, with the exception of the four hospitals that they were intending to send patients to. The training will be of variable degrees of quality. I'd bet that the vast majority of the training has gone to the front line nurses and patient care techs. There are going to be a lot of people who don't have a clue still. Frankly, I don't expect a really strenuous program of training in this unless infected patients become more common. Time, money, and corporate inertia say that in many cases it will be butt-covering and going through the motions unless there start to be infected patients in the region.

The next thing is medical equipment. I remember the H5N1 scare a year or two back, and my clinic stocked up on masks. You could get the crappy disposables easily, but the good ones (the ones that the staff would have latched onto if it dropped in the pot) were very limited in availability. They also cost substantially more, and management didn't want to stockpile lots of them unless they were going to actually be used. The other disposables, masks with visors, the Tyvek isolation suits and the like are going to be in limited supply in the medical supply warehouses. You can bet that's going up the line right now, people are trying to decide about manufacture and stockpiling of stuff like that. Remember that every time someone deals with one of these patients they fully armor up, then strip off and throw out, each time they go in and out of a room.

Logistics and preparation is going to be very important, and I bet it's an absolute nightmare trying to judge what will be needed along about now.

 

Every newspaper in America has run stories with such a credit line.

 

If this is true, holy fucking shit.

https://twitter.com/JanCBS/status/522530827079790592

 

Nothing to see here. Move along. Next fundraiser, next golf outing.