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re: Confirmed case of Ebola in New York City
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:04 pm to GhostofJackson
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:04 pm to GhostofJackson
@Liz_Kreutz
Spotted: Residents in the patients's apartment building leaving, suitcases in tow...
LOL
Spotted: Residents in the patients's apartment building leaving, suitcases in tow...
LOL
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:04 pm to GhostofJackson
quote:That is really not clear at all.
Sounds like Ebola has a longer incubation period than 21 days
IMO, 21 days is very conservative.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:05 pm to Vegas Bengal
The difference is, of course, that the mortality rate for that R of 1.5 to 2.0 is 70%.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:06 pm to NC_Tigah
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:07 pm to Vegas Bengal
quote:
each person who has gotten sick has spread Evola to only about two others.
If that math is true, and the average person with Ebola gives it to two people... Then this country better hit its knees and pray to the Lord for His mercy from the holocaust that we are about to experience.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:08 pm to the808bass
It can be longer than 21 days
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:10 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
The doctor in this case followed policy.
What is it about that fact you do not understand?
no the common sense the I speak of would be if you aren't feeling 100% don't go fricking bowling.
quote:LINK
Spencer, whose name was not mentioned during the news conference at Bellevue Hospital, left Guinea on Oct. 14 and arrived in the United States three days later, said Mary Travis Bassett, the city's health commissioner. During his travels and upon arriving in New York, she said, "he was well with no symptoms."
He checked his temperature twice daily, she said, and "began feeling somewhat tired" on Tuesday. On Thursday morning, she said, Spencer began to develop a fever, at which point he contacted Doctors Without Borders officials. Soon thereafter, he was transported from his residence in Harlem to the hospital in Manhattan.
I am going to go out on a limb and say he was not contagious (given present info) since he didn't develop the fever until after he got home from bowling.
quote:
Those without any known exposure to Ebola are told to monitor their health for a 21-day incubation period, according to the organization.?
Monitor their health for 21 days is the policy and he did that. According to the WP article he didn't have the fever on wed night when he went bowling.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:11 pm to WeeWee
quote:Good.
What if they have no symptoms, no fever and decide they need groceries? There is no scientific evidence that they can pass on the disease.
Then WTF is this?
"Did the Dr exercise good judgement, no"?
Either he was contagious or he wasn't.
He obeyed ALL policy to the letter. To the letter.
Assuming the policy to be appropriate, he exercised perfect judgment.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:13 pm to WeeWee
quote:He felt a little tired, not sick.
no the common sense the I speak of would be if you aren't feeling 100% don't go fricking bowling.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:17 pm to Vegas Bengal
quote:
I've lived 30 years in a community devastated with HIV. I can't count the number of friends who have died from it on my hands and feet. One was my ex when I was in law school and who would later become one of my best friends who passed away two years ago. We had dinner on a Thursday. The following Tuesday he was dead. Looked as healthy as an ox and had first been diagnosed about 10 years ago. I've lived my entire adult life accepting that it could happen to me. And while I've been very fortunate, there's still a far greater chance that I will be infected by HIV than Ebola.
That's a lot of personal information you're hitting us with. Do you have the HIV virus?
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:25 pm to NC_Tigah
This shouldn't be an ideological issue, but just look how this board breaks on this topic. The reason why is the federal government has grossly underestimates how easy this disease can get here. Once identified, we have done a good job containing it.
The question is does the government want Ebola to continue coming into the states or not? Because it sure seems like they don't mind allowing it into the country. A doctor working on Ebola patients should be quarantined for 30 days. A 21 day time period has always seemed too short of a time period. Now, what is it going to take for us to get serious about the disease because the government still doesn't realize the panic this causes. Yes, it's overblown but they set the expectations so low of this disease even making it to the US.
The question is does the government want Ebola to continue coming into the states or not? Because it sure seems like they don't mind allowing it into the country. A doctor working on Ebola patients should be quarantined for 30 days. A 21 day time period has always seemed too short of a time period. Now, what is it going to take for us to get serious about the disease because the government still doesn't realize the panic this causes. Yes, it's overblown but they set the expectations so low of this disease even making it to the US.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:26 pm to TOKEN
Just popping in to say i am about to hit full rabble about Ebola. Please talk me down.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:29 pm to TOKEN
quote:
A doctor working on Ebola patients should be quarantined for 30 days. A 21 day time period has always seemed too short of a time period.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:31 pm to baybeefeetz
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:33 pm to baybeefeetz
Nah. I'm still alive. A little stiff & lethargic but alive. You should be good.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:37 pm to Vegas Bengal
quote:
re: Confirmed case of Ebola in New York City (Posted on 10/23/14 at 9:26 pm to GumboPot) I've lived 30 years in a community devastated with HIV. I can't count the number of friends who have died from it on my hands and feet. One was my ex when I was in law school and who would later become one of my best friends who passed away two years ago. We had dinner on a Thursday. The following Tuesday he was dead. Looked as healthy as an ox and had first been diagnosed about 10 years ago. I've lived my entire adult life accepting that it could happen to me. And while I've been very fortunate, there's still a far greater chance that I will be infected by HIV than Ebola. You can't live your life in fear. This post was edited on 10/23 at 9:28 pm
Aren't you a female?
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:39 pm to John McClane
Current board conclusion is gay male.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:42 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
He felt a little tired, not sick.
ok and he didn't have symptoms (according to present info) and according to current research he couldn't transmit the virus yet. So whats the problem?
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:43 pm to John McClane
quote:Nope he just sounds like a screeching premenstrual feminist hag.
Aren't you a female?
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:52 pm to LSUGrrrl
Makes sense, but I had always heard female
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