K.M.Clarkster
Senior Member
Per wsb news.
Considering the "mechanics" of a county jail, everyone is going to have to be quarantined including every deputy and attorney that's been in the place since this guy got booked into the place and every inmate processed out. YIKES!
“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”
Uhhhh WHAT? Seal the damn border, no new outbreak monkeys in, take care of the ones in the place, and boom....outbreak contained. That's like saying if you put a bucket under a water faucet, turn the water on, then try to scoop the water out with a thimble that turning the water off would make it harder to get the water out of the bucket. What kind of stupidity is this?
Considering the "mechanics" of a county jail, everyone is going to have to be quarantined including every deputy and attorney that's been in the place since this guy got booked into the place and every inmate processed out. YIKES!
If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola...
Cobb Co. Jail inmate has tested negative for Ebola!
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/cobb-co-jail-inmate-being-tested-ebola/nhbYB/
Actually what it says is this: "The Cobb County Sheriff's Office says inital Ebola tests have come back negative for a Cobb County Jail inmate. One test is still outstanding, but officials say they expect that test to come back negative as well."
That is not exactly an "all clear" yet. I hope it will be, but let's not jump the gun.
Oh--forgot to say--
I CALLED WSB radio newsroom twice---once to ask WHY they are accepting at face value a "negative" test result SO EARLY IN, when (and I asked them--don't YOU REMEMBER??!??) Patrick Sawyer's test results were negative in the beginning, too--and begging them to NOT accept at face value whatever they're told but to do the research and dig deeper.
All I got out of the reporter who answered the phone was, "thank you."
I called again later & asked them how it was possible they had gotten a test result SO SOON--when according to news reports the guy was only arrested TODAY and even the CDC says their tests take AT LEAST 24 hours for results----
all they said was, "These are different tests that don't take that long."
He also said "one" of the tests was "a white-blood-cell count" test---so THAT wasn't even strictly-speaking an "ebola" test.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/report-inmate-at-cobb-county-jail-being-tested-for-ebola/
Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.
“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”
.....
A flaw in the electronic health records systems led to separate physician and nursing workflows, meaning the travel history documented by nurses was not passed onto physicians, hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said. He said the system has been corrected.
Couple of things jumped out at me. First off, I know it was piss poor reporting, but I was getting a headache reading and re-reading the article trying to find out who the heck Freiden is! Finally Googled the name Freiden and come to find out, he is the director of the CDC!
Secondly, if he actually said what he is quoted as saying, either he is an out and out liar or ANOTHER incompetent affirmative action hire by the Obozo administration. But when I look at his picture, he's a white guy! So no affirmative action there! So that leaves me with the liar choice and I would go with it if his statement actually made any sense! Under a quarantine, people are not allowed to travel, moron!
Finally for the last part, from what I hear from people in working in medicine now days, screw-ups like what happened in Dallas are much more frequent than when an actual paper file/chart followed the patient around. In many cases, our health care is a danger to our lives!
White cell counts with differential can be a useful diagnostic TOOL, but it is not a definitive test for anything. WBC with diff can be done in a a short time and is often done on a stat basis in EDs across the country. Many "Doc-in-the-boxes" also have the capability of doing them.
A dollar to a donut the one test they are waiting on is the actual Ebola test.
Cobb Co. Jail inmate has tested negative for Ebola!
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/cobb-co-jail-inmate-being-tested-ebola/nhbYB/
I don't get excited about any negative test results unless they have been sick for several days. Too many false negatives.
I don't get excited about any negative test results unless they have been sick for several days. Too many false negatives.
LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.
But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...
LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.
But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...
LOTS AND LOTS of negatives for Ebola.
But what if, IF, they should be testing for a sister virus, say Marburg perhaps? Just sayin' as we are not ruled by the best and brightest...
White cell counts with differential can be a useful diagnostic TOOL, but it is not a definitive test for anything. WBC with diff can be done in a a short time and is often done on a stat basis in EDs across the country. Many "Doc-in-the-boxes" also have the capability of doing them.
A dollar to a donut the one test they are waiting on is the actual Ebola test.
Absolutely true! Patrick Sawyer tested negative initially. Where is he? Oh, yeah, he's dead....of Ebola. The tests are not accurate and have a very high rate of false negatives until later in the active stage of disease.
We need to know what the heck is presenting ebola/nobola/newbola symptoms if the doc is testing for ebola this is probably hemmoragic
r
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/report-inmate-at-cobb-county-jail-being-tested-for-ebola/
Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.
“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”
http://www.newsweek.com/how-hospitals-test-ebola-274898
CM the article at the link states that the actual test can take as little as three to four hours. For someone in the Atlanta metro area you have to add a few hours for time to transport. For other areas of the country you have to add time to one-day ship the blood sample to a proper testing lab, thereby the 24 hour or so result.