EBOLA The nephew KNEW Duncan had Ebola before the Ebola test ...

[helen]

This has bothered me ever since the article came out on October 1.

How did the nephew know Duncan needed CDC intervention for Ebola?

Ebola was on a fairly long list of diseases that Duncan might have been suffering from. How did the nephew know which disease needed to be reported to the CDC?

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...as-eric-duncans-nephew-i-had-call-cdc-n216326

Health officials have acknowledged that Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, was initially sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas when he showed up on Sept. 26 complaining of fever and abdominal pain. He had to return two days later in an ambulance.

That was the day "I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was concerned for his life and he wasn't getting the appropriate care," Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News on Wednesday night. "I feared other people might also get infected if he wasn't taken care of, and so I called them to ask them why is it a patient that might be suspected of this disease was not getting appropriate care?"

 

[Kris Gandillon]

Well, technically he SUSPECTED that he may have this disease....unless the Ebola test has been performed you do not KNOW that you have this disease.

 

[helen]

Well, technically he SUSPECTED that he may have this disease....unless the Ebola test has been performed you do not KNOW that you have this disease.

Duncan had to have told them he might be infected. Normally you complain to the hospital administrator, not the CDC. You don't call the CDC for malaria.

I noticed they got quiet about how the hospital messed up. If the nephew knew something, he should have announced it loud and clear to the ER people instead of hoping they would figure it out.

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[CAgdma]

As I remember the earlier stories, the intake nurse at the first ER visit, wrote on the interview sheet that the patient had come from one of those West African countries....and the ER physician ignore the notes.

 

[msswv123]

Wanted to add this here ..I had never seen this interview with the nephew and mother of duncan

Ebola patient's family speaks out: He wasn't near Ebola area

Those close to first Ebola patient in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan have been upset with the time it's take for the Centers for Disease Control to not only get the family out the Ebola-infected apartment, but to remove the sheets and towels Duncan used.

Mother of U.S. Ebola patient: 'Everyone loves him'

CNN's Jim Sciutto speaks with Duncan's mother Nowah Gartay and his nephew Josephus Weeks about his condition.


Video is at the link..I don't know how to embed this type:

http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2014/10/03/ebola-patients-family-speaks-out/

 

[kjcap_777]

As I remember the earlier stories, the intake nurse at the first ER visit, wrote on the interview sheet that the patient had come from one of those West African countries....and the ER physician ignore the notes.

This has happened so often and the 'Nurse' always gets the blame. Healthcare has really turned into a Russian Roulette. One of my DD's is an RN and is in complete and utter astonishment as She deals with a Dr. who is either DRUNK or on a HANGOVER and Mad as Hell daily(Dry Drunk). And His card trumps Hers??? Just the other day She went off on Him and told Him He needed 'Treatment' asap.