Man Who Was in Contact with Ebola Victim Told to Return to Work
So much for a 21-day quarantine:
The friend of Texas Ebola patient, Thomas Duncan, who visited the man on the day he was admitted to hospital has been told he can return to work as a nursing assistant.
But the agony of uncertainty is not over for Aaron Yah, 43, and his family.
In a confusing twist his wife, Youngor Jallah 35, Mr Duncan’s stepdaughter, as Ms Jallah and the couple’s four children aged between two and 11 have been told they must remain in quarantine with only Mr Yah free to come and go.
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Both Mr Yah and Ms Jallah visited the sick man on the day he was taken into hospital and the children all spent the night in the apartment where their grandmother often cared for them while their parents – both nursing assistants – worked.
They are among the ten considered high risk by health officials yet the extent to which they have been left adrift in the midst of this crisis is breathtaking.
Do you question your government’s orders, citizen? The Centers for Disease Control have determined that there is no problem. Therefore, there is no problem, citizen.
Also, a clarification: the hospital initially claimed that a problem with electronic records caused doctors to be unaware that Duncan might be infected with Ebola. Silly hospital! Pay no attention, citizen, to the fact that cumbersome and bureaucratic electronic records are a key feature of ObamaCare — or to the fact that, now that federal officials are in town, the hospital has now changed its tune:
The hospital at first blamed a flaw in its electronic records system for miscommunication, but late Friday said that wasn’t the case after all. It also pointed out the patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, did not disclose important information.
In fact, citizen, the hospital might not have even made that claim at all to begin with. It would be best, we think, if that thought were just wiped from your minds.
It never happened. Say it with me: it never happened.
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Patterico (9c670f) — 10/4/2014 @ 11:45 amunexpectedly!
introducing CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) has been a nightmare… the docs refuse to use it, the nurses follow their lead, and everyone yells at pharmacy, because compliance is mandatory, but management dare not yell at the docs, because they will take their patients elsewhere…
just look to the nightmare that is the VA medrecs system. hell, the VA can’t even tell me if the HAVE my military health records, which is what St Louis keeps telling me, even as they produce and send parts of them to me.
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 10/4/2014 @ 11:56 ambetween the Secret Service and the CDC, this sort of high-profile incompetence on the part of the US government makes it very very easy to talk my lil nephew person out of joining the military, which is a good good thing cause for awhile there I was thinking I was gonna have to use expensive bribes
happyfeet (a785d5) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:08 pmIt is so hard to CYA in a bureaucracy when everyone else is doing the same thing. It’s a Prisoner’s Dilemma of lies.
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:11 pmThat hospital’s IRS audit notice is in the mail.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:26 pmhi Dana the change it’s tune link isn’t the right link
happyfeet (a785d5) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:29 pm*changed its tune* link i mean
happyfeet (a785d5) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:29 pmSo, what is Governor Perry doing about this?
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:32 pmi mean Patterico not Dana sorry
i made a smoothie cause i have to use stuff up before i move and I think I got a sugar rush
it’s very tasty and seasonal as well
I took about 2/3 of one of those large cans of pumpkin and a can of pineapple “tidbits,” added a lil brown sugar and nutmeg and blendered it up with ice
I serve it in a big red wine goblet with a straw
can you say tres elegant?
happyfeet (a785d5) — 10/4/2014 @ 12:35 pmThe antecedent instruction of the CDC that one exposed household could go shopping conjoined to this nonsense indicates the CDC is not very serious about this and that the ‘quarantines’ are for show. Gov. Perry and the Dallas County executive need to take charge at this point.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/4/2014 @ 1:19 pmThank you happy; the link is fixed.
Patterico (9c670f) — 10/4/2014 @ 1:26 pmOMG, sure, go to work and mix your bodily fluids with the sick. Gaah!
Can you imagine what will happen when 1,000 people need to be quarantined?
People stop going to work and earning money, then what? They withhold news of their symptoms and go to work anyways. Or they steal money and food. IOW, civil breakdown.
We are not doing much better of a job than Africa at this point.
By the time the midterms come around, we will have dead people, and news of their deaths will be be told by alternative sources. The government will deny, deny, minimize.
Patricia (5fc097) — 10/4/2014 @ 1:54 pmIt is blindingly obvious to me that Duncan is just another god bothering christofascist reichwing teaklanner who probably also does not believe in global warming or support SSM and is just out to wreck Barack Ebola’s second term.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/4/2014 @ 2:00 pmThe first thing to remember is that nothing, nothing!, the government says can be trusted.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 10/4/2014 @ 2:30 pmParaphrasing the immortal words of Janet Napolitano: “THE SYSTEM DIDN’T WORK!”
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/4/2014 @ 2:42 pmRemembering the Gell-Mann Amnesia Syndrome and the fact that we are never to believe anything that is reported in the midst of a crisis …
we should find something else to do for a few days, don’t go to Dallas, don’t go to airports with flights arriving from Liberia, or Belgium
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2014 @ 3:18 pm14- THAT!
askeptic (efcf22) — 10/4/2014 @ 3:19 pmThe Centers for Disease Control have determined that there is no problem. Therefore, there is no problem, citizen.
The mindset behind that appears to be not too far removed from the one where the situation caused The Powers That Be to proclaim: “Yes, Nidal Hasan was raving and ranting — in front of his colleagues — about the hegemony of the US and the virtue of Islam. But his background and culture make it unkind and inhospitable for us to do or say anything about him. So ixnay on the limmusnay.”
Mark (c160ec) — 10/4/2014 @ 3:22 pm#14, askeptic: “that nothing the government says can be trusted” is true in a literal sense. However, we can be sure that whatever they are saying will put the most positive spin on the situation for today’s news cycle. So we can use the statements to see what our great leader believes to be important. Sadly, this just reinforces the conclusion that he is a manipulative gadfly with very dark plans for the country. Remember, every crisis is viewed by him as an opportunity.
bobathome (41dcc0) — 10/5/2014 @ 8:38 amThe whole matter of taking precautions and not taking precautions is being done irrationally, causing some people to think they are endangering people when they suddenly don’t do it.
It’s not done according to degree of risk but according to how much it inconveniences people, and whom. It’s not just the little people suddenly forgetting the excess of caution – this goes for officials, too.
Now the bedding from Duncan: It is quite unnecessary to treat that as hazardous medical waste any more.
Ebola is believed to survive a few days in water at room temperature [a good question would be is how narrow is the temperature range, and if maybe it only survives inside living cells for longer than several hours] and much less when dry and more than enough time has gone by for it to be all dead. (according I assume to research ovewr the last 20 years)
Sammy Finkelman (31cdef) — 10/5/2014 @ 11:47 amthe initial reports quoted the sister as stating the issue of him being liberian were in the contect of him not having a SSN which means that the person asking that question was not medical staff, but was a clerk from admissions. and we all know HIPPA regulations state that the medical staff are not allowed to even know if the person is an alien illegal or otherwise since that knowledge may color their treatment of said alien. therefore FEDERAL LAW prevented the clerk from informing the staff he was from liberia and was not a citizen. those reports that quoted the sister directly have all vanished from the search results. funny that…
Rorschach (61bf43) — 10/6/2014 @ 8:56 am