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- Thread starter cindylou
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Im gonna get it hard
Just wash ur hands afterwards
Yup.
It's still not scary though. The nurses are even saying they really had no protocols for dealing with it and were just sort of being told what to do on the fly meaning they definitely did fuck up, they didn't know what they were doing, and that the precautions the hospital started with weren't enough i.e. The first version of their protective gear didn't cover their neck and the first Ebola patient's blood samples weren't sent through the standard channels rather than being sealed and personally delivered.
It's still not scary though. The nurses are even saying they really had no protocols for dealing with it and were just sort of being told what to do on the fly meaning they definitely did fuck up, they didn't know what they were doing, and that the precautions the hospital started with weren't enough i.e. The first version of their protective gear didn't cover their neck and the first Ebola patient's blood samples weren't sent through the standard channels rather than being sealed and personally delivered.
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You're right that it spreads slowly and is hard to get in the beginning and people going about their lives aren't going to get infected from this, but it's easy for a healthcare worker to get infected. It's super contagious especially at the end stages which is why this is so dangerous for healthcare workers. Just one droplet of blood of at the end stages can contain a hundred million particles of the virus. A contagion that you have to deal with in this manner and be 100% perfect around is extremely contagious for a nurse or caregiver. The reproductive rate of ebola here in the US, a virus which there is no cure and has a 70% horrible, ghastly, undignified death rate is at 2 right now. So bravo Dallas. Bravo US. So far we've done no better dealing with this with our supposed superior healthcare system than west africa so far. How arrogant we are.
Yeah I agree, healthcare workers have to be careful. Obviously they're directly dealing with and handling infectious fluids from these people, so they need to be considerably more cautious than we do.
I don't think it's even something they need to be 100% perfect around. These nurses coming forward to talk about the lack of protocol and total fuck ups are making it clear Dallas wasn't even close, which makes you think it must not be terribly awful if so far only 2 of the 77 people there who dealt with him are sick. Granted, there's a 21 day period they could get sick that's not yet over, but we'll see.
Dallas was more concerned with dealing with the first patient quickly more so than making sure they were doing it correctly. They've since corrected themselves and added in CDC supervision, help, protocols and guidelines that weren't followed during the care of the first dude.
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