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re: confirmed ebola in NYC.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 8:43 am to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 10/24/14 at 8:43 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Also any NYC OT people? He lived in Harlem? Why? All my NY knowledge involves 70's, 80's, 90's pop culture. So help me out. Is Harlem becoming a place to live?
Read my earlier post. I used to live on his street. frick it. This is what I wrote:
"I used to live on W. 147th. His exact same street. Not as bad of an area as you'd think. Not great either but it's gentrifying rapidly. Plus it's close to the hospital he works at. "
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Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:18 am to DosManos
The number of dumbasses on this board is truly baffling...
Lets assess the facts..
Patient Zero arrived in the US after misleading officials. The CDC actually predicted that this would happen.
Patient Zero resided in a house with 4 other persons before being taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Patient Zero was treated by several health care professionals and released back to his home.
Some days later Patient Zero again was rushed to the hospital by ambulance and tested positive for advanced stage Ebola. He later dies.
Two Nurses later test positive for Ebola. In the aftermath the leading consensus is that they exposed themselves to Ebola by removing their protective gear in such a way as to as expose themselves to the contaminated garments (They took the gloves off before taking off their protective gowns). Both RN's took care of the patient before he was officially diagnosed with Ebola. One later flew with over 100 persons on a commercial airline flight.
Both RN's are expected to make full recoveries.
So, lets assess who isn't infected?
None of the four people living with Patient Zero. Keeping in mind all of them had direct and unprotected contact with Patient Zero while he was symptomatic and contagious.
None of the EMT's or Ambulance staff who were also in direct contact and without protective gear. Same story, he was symptomatic and contagious.
Dozens of other healthcare workers who encountered Patient Zero both before and after he was officially diagnosed with Ebola.
None of the travelers aboard the flight have tested positive for Ebola.
This MD was asymptomatic and reported himself to proper authorities before and after returning to the US. He was testing himself for fever and the data was being given to local health officials. He followed a rigid CDC protocol and the likelihood of him infecting anyone is very remote.
Ebola is only spread by direct contact with bodily fluids and is not airborn. Ebola doesn't live on surfaces like other viruses found on cruise ships, etc.
More American citizens have died of the flu than Ebola in the past month.
You chicken little's need to settle down. The sky isn't falling.
Lets assess the facts..
Patient Zero arrived in the US after misleading officials. The CDC actually predicted that this would happen.
Patient Zero resided in a house with 4 other persons before being taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Patient Zero was treated by several health care professionals and released back to his home.
Some days later Patient Zero again was rushed to the hospital by ambulance and tested positive for advanced stage Ebola. He later dies.
Two Nurses later test positive for Ebola. In the aftermath the leading consensus is that they exposed themselves to Ebola by removing their protective gear in such a way as to as expose themselves to the contaminated garments (They took the gloves off before taking off their protective gowns). Both RN's took care of the patient before he was officially diagnosed with Ebola. One later flew with over 100 persons on a commercial airline flight.
Both RN's are expected to make full recoveries.
So, lets assess who isn't infected?
None of the four people living with Patient Zero. Keeping in mind all of them had direct and unprotected contact with Patient Zero while he was symptomatic and contagious.
None of the EMT's or Ambulance staff who were also in direct contact and without protective gear. Same story, he was symptomatic and contagious.
Dozens of other healthcare workers who encountered Patient Zero both before and after he was officially diagnosed with Ebola.
None of the travelers aboard the flight have tested positive for Ebola.
This MD was asymptomatic and reported himself to proper authorities before and after returning to the US. He was testing himself for fever and the data was being given to local health officials. He followed a rigid CDC protocol and the likelihood of him infecting anyone is very remote.
Ebola is only spread by direct contact with bodily fluids and is not airborn. Ebola doesn't live on surfaces like other viruses found on cruise ships, etc.
More American citizens have died of the flu than Ebola in the past month.
You chicken little's need to settle down. The sky isn't falling.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 9:22 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:24 am to DosManos
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gentrifying rapidly
The hipster proliferation is real. I'm surprised more on this board aren't supporting a contained outbreak in the area.
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