Ace:
Actually, what he’s referring to specifically is the fact her ebola has been identified by doctors and that she’s now in isolation.
But it is weird that in a case where a nurse wearing full protective ebola gear — per all the protocols — nevertheless is infected with the deadly disease, it’s said to be “a sign that the system is working.”
They just seem to have one mode: Reassure The Public. Whatever happens, they reassure the public.
I personally would be more reassured if they were dealing more candidly with the public instead of just saying “Oh sure we expected that to happen.”
The news that a health care worker might have the disease is not completely unexpected, an infectious disease specialist told CNN’s “New Day.”
“I think we’ve always expected that there may be another individual who will come down with the Ebola from the transmission of this one particular person, and we always felt that it was going to likely be one of his close contacts or one of the health care workers, because that’s the way this virus works,” Dr. Frank Esper said.Esper said Texas officials have been keeping a close eye on people who had contact with Duncan.“I will tell you that the fact that we identified this individual so quickly is actually to me a sign that the system is working,” he added.
I don’t know that health care workers are reassured that the “system is working” when someone wearing protective gear nevertheless gets infected.
These are our frontline soldiers against this horrific disease.
The Director of the CDC insists there was a breach in protocol:
“At some point, there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection,” he said at a news conference Sunday. “The (Ebola treatment) protocols work. … But we know that even a single lapse or breach can result in infection.”
However, officials are apparently unable or unwilling to specify what this breach in protocol is:
Today, Monday, the CDC director has changed his tune.
He admits no breach in protocol occurred.
He added, ”we are going to have to re-think how we deal with ebola.”
And the nurses are going on strike.
The HAZMAT suits are not going to be enough even if all hospitals had them…..which they don’t.