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LSU quarantines employee returning from Liberia
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:25 am
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:25 am
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Kudos to LSU for taking reasonable precautions. Also - should point out this guy wouldn't have even been allowed to fly home under the let's cancel all flights inbound from west Africa plan.
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An LSU employee who recently returned to Baton Rouge from Liberia where he trained police there to avoid contracting Ebola will remain under a precautionary 21-day quarantine before returning to campus, according to the university.
Kudos to LSU for taking reasonable precautions. Also - should point out this guy wouldn't have even been allowed to fly home under the let's cancel all flights inbound from west Africa plan.
This post was edited on 10/17/14 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:37 am to SpidermanTUba
Obama and his peeps wrote a 2,700 page insurance reform bill (it sucked, but we've already discussed that).
in the event that Obama ever does ban air travel from these infected countries, are you saying that he's too dumb to put in a provision allowing people with U.S. passports to return and be placed in isolation? Do you really believe that Obama would issue an EO that would effectively leave military personnel and healthcare professionals stranded over there?
in the event that Obama ever does ban air travel from these infected countries, are you saying that he's too dumb to put in a provision allowing people with U.S. passports to return and be placed in isolation? Do you really believe that Obama would issue an EO that would effectively leave military personnel and healthcare professionals stranded over there?
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:41 am to SpidermanTUba
quote:Correct.
Also - should point out this guy wouldn't have even been allowed to fly home under the let's cancel all flights inbound from west Africa plan.
And?
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:43 am to SpidermanTUba
The employee is doing this himself...kudos to him too.
He is aware of the treatment strategies and knows the precautions. Our government should take a page from his book and actually do something to help reduce the spread. Right now, we are responding to a crisis instead of getting ahead of it.
IMO, the state and the Feds should be pushing to setup a biocontainment treatment facility (either temporary or permanent) at OLOL and similar facilities across the nation. Hopefully we won't have to use them. Something with negative pressure and a staff trained and equipped to handle at least one patient at a time.
Texas Presbiterian proved that regular hospitals are not equipped to handle ebola cases. I also suspect that they moved those nurses out to other facilities because they expect more cases in the near future.
He is aware of the treatment strategies and knows the precautions. Our government should take a page from his book and actually do something to help reduce the spread. Right now, we are responding to a crisis instead of getting ahead of it.
IMO, the state and the Feds should be pushing to setup a biocontainment treatment facility (either temporary or permanent) at OLOL and similar facilities across the nation. Hopefully we won't have to use them. Something with negative pressure and a staff trained and equipped to handle at least one patient at a time.
Texas Presbiterian proved that regular hospitals are not equipped to handle ebola cases. I also suspect that they moved those nurses out to other facilities because they expect more cases in the near future.
This post was edited on 10/17/14 at 9:52 am
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:43 am to Roaad
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Correct. And?
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:44 am to SpidermanTUba
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Also - should point out this guy wouldn't have even been allowed to fly home under the let's cancel all flights inbound from west Africa plan.
There are no direct flights from west Africa, everything goes through Europe.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:45 am to KCT
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in the event that Obama ever does ban air travel from these infected countries, are you saying that he's too dumb to put in a provision allowing people with U.S. passports to return and be placed in isolation?
yes. The ineptness of out gov know no bounds. Some low level gov employee (i.e TSA agent) make that mistake. Also do I need to reference the article about how travel bans do more harm than good again and how the WHO says the longer the outbreak is going on in africa to more likely (still incredibly small) that virus could mutate (again incredibly small) into something more serious?
To OP: I think that a quarantine is unnecessary, but if LSU wants to give him a 3 week paid vacation and he agreed then good for him and LSU.
This post was edited on 10/17/14 at 9:46 am
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:46 am to SpidermanTUba
Only US citizens should be allowed to return.
They should be quaranteined for a month. Air travel ban needs to be put in effect until things cool down. The U.S. should have 4 regional hospitals specializing in Ebola treatment. Our government has a responsibility to keep this out the country. This isn't a civil rights issue.
They should be quaranteined for a month. Air travel ban needs to be put in effect until things cool down. The U.S. should have 4 regional hospitals specializing in Ebola treatment. Our government has a responsibility to keep this out the country. This isn't a civil rights issue.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:46 am to TOKEN
quote:even if they are infecting their fellow passengers?
Only US citizens should be allowed to return.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:48 am to SpidermanTUba
No where in the article did it say how the guy returned home. Passenger, private jet? This is the kind of shitty reporting that leaves facts out only to make the public speculate. 
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:49 am to Roaad
If a U.S. citizen has this then they should be able to return for treatment.
otherwise they are dead.
otherwise they are dead.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:50 am to TOKEN
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Only US citizens should be allowed to return.
They should be quaranteined for a month.
Instead of banning travel, why not leave it open for any west African who is willing to be quarantined for three weeks, starting with the day they apply for a VISA?
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:51 am to TOKEN
quote:If they have it, then they can give it to al the other passengers. Treatment isn't 100% effective.
If a U.S. citizen has this then they should be able to return for treatment.
otherwise they are dead.
Allowing one guy to infect 50, for example, means tat even with treatment more than one could die just to get one guy home.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:53 am to TOKEN
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If a U.S. citizen has this then they should be able to return for treatment.
otherwise they are dead.
What about when aide workers decide to not go to west africa because they don't want to be quarantined and more ppl die in africa? All that needs to be done is screen for fever which is already done in the ebola countries before passengers board a plane, and in the connecting airports and airlines have the legal freedom to deny entry to any sick traveler. When they get here all they need to do is monitor their temp and if they develop a fever go straight to the freaking hospital and make it known and understood that they have been to an ebola country.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:55 am to trackfan
Because West Africans are not our responsibility.
I'm sympathetic to Americsn citizens. I know this sounds harsh to some, but only US citizens should be able to return. On their way in they are quarantined and if they don't like it then take their chances with the Africa healthcare system. I think this is fair.
I'm sympathetic to Americsn citizens. I know this sounds harsh to some, but only US citizens should be able to return. On their way in they are quarantined and if they don't like it then take their chances with the Africa healthcare system. I think this is fair.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:57 am to Roaad
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If they have it, then they can give it to al the other passengers. Treatment isn't 100% effective.
They are quarantined before travel. If positive its a charter plane back to the states isolated from public. I'm talking past you Rooad
Posted on 10/17/14 at 9:59 am to WeeWee
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What about when aide workers decide to not go to west africa because they don't want to be quarantined and more ppl die in africa? All that needs to be done is screen for fever which is already done in the ebola countries before passengers board a plane, and in the connecting airports and airlines have the legal freedom to deny entry to any sick traveler.
You lost me
Posted on 10/17/14 at 10:03 am to TOKEN
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Because West Africans are not our responsibility.
Some of ppl (i.e aide workers, missionaries) would disagree and they want to help contain the virus to help stop the epidemic.
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I'm sympathetic to Americsn citizens. I know this sounds harsh to some, but only US citizens should be able to return. On their way in they are quarantined and if they don't like it then take their chances with the Africa healthcare system. I think this is fair.
how is it fair that only ONE foreigner out of the millions that have probably traveled from the west africa to the US since the outbreak began was sick?
Also as far as the Yale case goes:
[quote]Initial tests show a Connecticut patient who recently traveled to Liberia and is being isolated at was Yale-New Haven Hospital does not have Ebola. quote] LINK
Posted on 10/17/14 at 10:13 am to WeeWee
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how is it fair that only ONE foreigner out of the millions that have probably traveled from the west africa to the US since the outb
Just stop...
We have not had MILLIONS from West Africa come to the U.S. okay.
I don't want the crap coming over here and the public wants at least a temporary ban on air travel. Last time I checked we were a sovereign nation. You think it's a good idea to just have people traveling back and forth? This doesn't raise the risk to Americans? Come on!
Posted on 10/17/14 at 10:15 am to member12
quote:if it were a via hospital the conversation would be that government just can't do healthcare right
Texas Presbiterian proved that regular hospitals are not equipped to handle ebola cases.
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