Ebola is here. Can this clusterfuck 'president' do ANYTHING right???

[Dave007inVegas]

How fast will Ebola spread?

A report in late September that said that at current rates of infection, as many as 1.4 million people would become infected by January.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ad9e76-4fb2-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_story.html

 

[SheriffJoe]

Obama Contradicts CDC on Avoiding Ebola...
MILITARY ARRIVES IN HOT ZONE...
AFRICOM: US Personnel Will Have Direct Contact With Patients...
MAG: Outbreak Reveals Flaws in Protective Gear...
FEAR ESCALATES IN EUROPE...
WHO lists 13 potential new hotspots...
Liberian leader seeks more power to fight virus; Restrict movement and public gatherings...
Bans journalists from Ebola centers...
Ominous math of epidemic worries experts...
Cases doubling every 3-4 weeks...
General warns virus could cross Mexican border...
Unease On Dallas College Football Weekend...
Duncan's family gives his medical records to AP...
Released from ER after registering 103-degree fever...
NYC ON ALERT...

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]'Breach of protocol' blamed for Texas nurse's Ebola infection: 'Heroic' woman who treated Thomas Eric Duncan is confirmed to have deadly virus as CDC admits mistakes were made in quarantine[/h]

• The nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported fever on Friday but was NOT a part of the original 'high-risk' group
• The healthcare worker wore a gown, gloves, mask and shield while treating U.S. 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan
• A team of 19 epidemiologists are on the ground in Dallas speaking to everyone within a 4-block radius of the victim's apartment
• A second person who had 'close contact' with the nurse has 'proactively' been placed in isolation
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has stopped receiving emergency patients and will divert them elsewhere
• All those who treated Duncan are now considered to be potentially exposed because of a potential 'breach in protocol' in the removal of protective gear
• The CDC is closely monitoring 48 healthcare workers known to have potentially been exposed and searching for additional contacts

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[superbeets]

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Off limits: Police stand guard on Sunday outside the apartment of the hospital worker diagnosed with Ebola

Cleaning up: A man dressed in protective hazmat clothing leaves after treating the front porch and sidewalk of an apartment where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides on Sunday, October 12

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Perimeter: Dallas police setup a barrier after a hazmat vehicle entered the alley behind the as-yet-unidentified nurse's apartment on Sunday

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Growing fears: A woman looks out of her window from an apartment building next door to the apartment building of the infected nurse


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[superbeets]

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Brad Smith with the hazmat company CG Environmental Cleaning Guys talks with the media outside of an apartment where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides on October 12, 2014 in Dallas, Texas

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Ominous: A yellow barrel, left, that holds hazardous materials was placed in front of the nurse's Dallas apartment. The Texas health care worker, who was in full protective gear when they provided hospital care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who later died, has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition

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Breach of protocol: Dr. Tom Frieden (pictured), head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the worker had treated Duncan multiple times after the Liberian man was diagnosed. He said the nurse's diagnosis indicates a clear breach of safety protocol

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Pamphleting the neighborhood: A notice is left on the front porch of a house across the street from the apartment where a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital lives and tested positive for Ebola in Dallas

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Sanitize: A hazmat worker cleans outside the apartment building of the infected hospital worker on Sunday

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Safety first: A hazmat worker puts up a plasti


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[superbeets]

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Dual mission: First responders guard the apartment of the infected nurse as health officials fanned out in her neighborhood Sunday in a mission to both calm fears and gain information

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Important information: Volunteers pass out flyers for the Dallas County Health and Human Services department near the infected nurse's apartment on Sunday

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Turn around: A member of the Dallas Police Department talks with a motorist who turned into the apartment complex where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides on October 12, 2014 in Dallas, Texas

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Checking in on the situation: Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings (left) drives by the apartment of the infected woman on Saturday


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[superbeets]

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First infection on U.S. soil: Ebola arrived to America in September and now a healthcare worker who treated 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan has tested positive for the virus as confirmed by at a Sunday press conference. Dr. David Varga, of the Texas Health Resource (pictured), says the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

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Scary: Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins speaks about a health care worker who provided hospital care for Thomas Eric Duncan who contracted Ebola, during a press conference Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas

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Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was admitted. A nurse who treated Duncan tested positive for Ebola on Saturday despite having worn protective gear

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Wasn't high risk: Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person to die of Ebola in the United States last week. One of the nurses treating him tested positive over the weekend and was not even a part of the originally identified 'high-risk' group

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Texas State Health Services Commissioner Dr. David Lakey, center, said: 'We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility'



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[superbeets]

[h=1]America on edge over Ebola fears: Sick passenger's flight put on lockdown at LAX and Boston hospital evacuated after man from Liberia showed symptoms of virus[/h]

• A female passenger on board a flight which landed in Los Angeles from New York Sunday afternoon vomited and showed flu-like symptoms
• Health officials say there is 'no reason to believe' the passenger, who had recently visited South Africa, had been exposed to the Ebola virus
• Also on Sunday, a man in Boston reported head and muscle aches at a hospital and led to an evacuation at the urgent care facility
• The unidentified male patient had recently arrived from Liberia and was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for evaluation

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[superbeets]

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United Airlines Flight 703 landed in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon, and was immediately put into lockdown after a female passenger vomited and showed other signs of the flu. A medical team assessed the passenger for possible exposure to the Ebola virus and say there is now 'no cause for concern'. Above, a picture of health officials on the tarmac

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The plane landed at LAX and was diverted to a far terminal for the assessment. The United Airlines flight arrived from New York's JFK airport, but the passenger in question had recently visited South Africa

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The above Twitter picture shows health and safety officials arriving on the tarmac near the quarantined plane Sunday afternoon

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According to officials, Harvard Vanguard Medical Center (above) in Braintree was evacuated this afternoon after a patient who recently traveled to West Africa began to complain of symptoms related to the illness (file photo)

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The patient was subsequently taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston. Above, a man collects and bags items near the entrance of the hospital after the patient arrived on Sunday

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A Braintree law enforcement official places police tape around a sign to the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates on Sunday

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The man under observation for Ebola in Massachusetts has his car towed on Sunday

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A tow truck driver wears protective gloves as he prepares to haul away a vehicle, that police say was driven by a patient who had been to Liberia



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[russ1945]

[h=1]OBAMA PLAYS 200TH ROUND OF GOLF AS 2ND EBOLA CASE EMERGES[/h]

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Obama is briefed about the diagnosis of a second case of Ebola in Texas

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[h=2]AUSTIN, Texas -- After hearing the news shortly after midnight early Sunday morning that a second Ebola case had been diagnosed in a Texas Presbyterian Hospital nurse, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings stayed up through the night putting together an action plan.[/h]In contrast, President Barack Obama's response is being criticized as not adequately prioritizing the crisis. As Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren tweeted, Obama made a phone call to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and then "headed out to play golf." CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller had posted that the press corps had been escorted to vans in the presidential motorcade to go to the golf course, but then were led back to the White House for a photo opp of Obama on the phone with Burwell that "lasted only 40 seconds." Knoller tweeted several photos of Obama wearing a casual windbreaker, sitting at his desk in the Oval Office while speaking on the phone.
Knoller also reported shortly after 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time that Obama has arrived at Fort Belvoir Golf Club for "his 200th round of golf as President." The Golf Channel confirmed that this was the 200th round of golf for Obama -- or, as they dubbed him, the "First Duffer" -- since he became president.
Twitchy.com reported several negative reactions questioning how seriously the president was taking the Ebola crisis, allowing only a short delay in his golf game and quipping "What a workaholic!" Conservative lawyer and author David Limbaugh tweeted a cartoon of Obama in ancient Roman garb, golfing as the city burned around him as "unfair to Nero," referring to the Roman emperor who was rumored to have played a fiddle during theGreat Fire of Rome in 64 A.D. Austin-based Republican consultant Matt Mackowiakweighed in, "Obama is closely monitoring the #Ebola crisis and our war with ISIS from Gwyneth Paltrow's house and the golf course." [Disclosure: Mackowiak is a Breitbart Texas contributor.]

 

[superbeets]

$500,000 for the hospital treatment alone of Mr Duncan



One patient ,one hospital yes $500,000

 

[superbeets]

$18k t $24k per day to treat an Ebola patient.

 

[superbeets]

The cost of the clean up for the one apartment of Mr Duncan family $130k.

 

[superbeets]

The costs alone are good argument for travel ban that stops new cases coming into America.

 

[superbeets]

Rising costs. Money! may yet dictate policy.

 

[Ricboff]

any volunteers....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-made-ebola-vaccine-start-clinical-trials-healthy-145000261.html


TORONTO - An experimental Canadian-made Ebola vaccine will begin a clinical trials Monday in what officials are calling a promising development in the fight against the deadly disease.
The vaccine will be tested on healthy individuals to see how well it works, whether there are side effects and what the proper dosage is, Health Minister Rona Ambrose said in a news conference.
"The Canadian vaccine provides great hope and promise because it has shown to be 100 per cent effective in preventing the spread of the Ebola virus when tested on animals," she said.
If it proves safe and effective in humans, the vaccine could help stop the devastating outbreak that has killed thousands of people in west Africa, she said.
Studies in primates have shown this vaccine works in primates both to prevent infection when given before exposure and to increase survival chances when given quickly after exposure.
A small U.S. company called NewLink Genetics holds the licence for the vaccine and will be arranging the trials, to be conducted in a lab in Silver Spring, Md.
Ambrose said the results are expected in December, with the vaccine to be deployed shortly after.
NewLink said earlier this month that at least five clinical trials involving the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, would soon be under way in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and in an unnamed African country which is not battling Ebola.
As well, the Canadian government has said it wants to conduct a trial in this country.

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]'Nurses are not protected, they’re not prepared for Ebola': Angry nursing union says NO US hospital can cope - and claim hazardous waste was piled to the CEILING of Thomas Eric Duncan's room[/h]

• National Nurses Union has made series of startling allegations against Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
• Claims there were no concrete protocols to deal with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan
• Union director RoseAnn DeMoro alleged her nurses were left unprotected and at the mercy of the killer virus
• Angered by CDC director Tom Frieden's attempts to pass the blame to nurse Nina Pham - who is now infected
• Blasted Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for their duty of care towards their nurses
• Claimed that nurses had to use medical tape to cover their exposed necks because their suits were ill-equipped
• Alleged that hazardous waste from Duncan was left to pile up to the ceiling in one room
• Made the frightening assertion that no hospital in the United States can deal with Ebola
• Frieden confirmed today that 76 medics are being monitored for Ebola exposure

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[superbeets]

Nurses at the Dallas hospital where the first patient died of Ebola in America have spoken out to insist there were no protocols for dealing with the disease in place - and claim that no hospital in the country is prepared to deal with the deadly virus.
The director of the National Nurses Union RoseAnn DeMoro directly contradicted the CDC's initial claim that a breach in protocol lead to the infection of Nina Pham as she treated Thomas Eric Duncan.
She said: 'Our nurses are not protected, they’re not prepared to handle Ebola or any other pandemics,' DeMoro said.
'The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place and are not in place anywhere in the United States, as far as we can tell.'

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Hope: Stephanie Wright and Erin Taylor, a members of the Sigma Kappa sorority, speak to the media following a prayer vigil on the campus of TCU for health care worker Nina Pham who contracted the Ebola virus last week

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Interviews: Allison Lanza, Associate Chaplin at TCU, talks with the media following a prayer vigil on the campus of TCU for health care worker Nina Pham who contracted Ebola treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died

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Pray: Allison Lanza, Associate Chaplin at TCU, instructs attendees to stand at a prayer vigil on the campus of TCU for health care worker Nina Pham in Dallas on Tuesday night


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[superbeets]

Nurses say 'the guidelines were constantly changing' at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital - and claims hazardous waste was left to pile to the ceiling in the room that Duncan was being treated.
Speaking at a hastily arranged press conference on Tuesday DeMoro and union co-director Deborah Burger alleged an unprofessional and careless approach to Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where Thomas Eric DUncan passed away last week.
The specific claims made by DeMoro and Burger, if true, are 'startling' according to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
They include:
Thomas Eric Duncan was not isolated immediately when he was admitted to the hospital with Ebola symptoms.
He was 'left for several hours, not in isolation, in an area where other patients were present,' said Burger, who said that seven patients were in the vicinity of Duncan.
A nursing supervisor faced interference from hospital chiefs when they demanded Duncan be isolated.
The protective clothing the nurses were wearing when they initially treated Duncan left their necks exposed.
When they reported this to their superiors, the nurses were told to use surgical tape and wrap it around their necks instead.
'They were told to use medical tape and had to use four to five pieces of medical tape wound around their neck. The nurses have expressed a lot of concern about how difficult it is to remove the tape from their neck,' said Burger.
The nurses made the shocking allegation that during Duncan's care, hazardous waste was dumped in a room and built up to the ceiling.
Ultimately, according to DeMoro and Burger, the nurses feel 'unsupported, unprepared, lied to and deserted', especially in light of CDC Director Thomas Frieden's assertion that a 'breach in protocol' led 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham to become infected.
"This nurse was being blamed for not following protocols that did not exist. ... The nurses in that hospital were very angry, and they decided to contact us," DeMoro said.

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CDC Director Tom Frieden said on Tuesday that he regretted not putting an Ebola response team on the ground when 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan was diagnosed

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Nurse Nina Pham, 26, who cared for patient Mr Duncan is said to be in a stable condition after contracting Ebola from him



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