This just keeps getting worse. I also saw that apparently this nurse flew on a commercial airline the night before she was isolated at the hospital with fever. If she was one of the healthcare workers being monitored after having direct contact with Duncan, why the hell was she allowed to go on a commercial flight?
We really have a mess on our hands here, and it’s going to come down to juggling Civil Liberties vs. Public Health. The fact that all these patients names have been released to the media through HIPAA out the window. What’s next?
We should be encouraged GenX. The President cancelled a fundraiser to call a meeting at the White House on Ebola. His embecilic CDC director famously said last week that all hospitals in the US are fully capable of dealing with Ebola. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Most don’t have the isolation rooms, equipment, suits or training to handle this outbreak. I wonder what the ER nurses and doctors think about all this. They have a very dangerous occupation now.
I could be wrong, but I *think* the family members released the patient names. So, it might not be a HIPAA issue – at least not right now. But either way, it’s still kind of terrifying to think about. :/
Don’t forget feral fido. I wondered if they’ve interviewed the dog yet to see what contact it may have had. The article mentions bats/chimpanzees — why isn’t it mentioning dogs? They certainly mentioned it over the weekend, and actually noted that they had “a facility in place to monitor the animal.”
…but at least we have the common sense to quarantine animals coming in from just about anywhere to make certain that infections not indigenous to our country are identified and contained. Individual civil liberties stop when they begin to impact the welfare and mortality of society in general. More interesting to me, though, is when did common sense die in this country?? Probably right after concern for fellow humans.
This just keeps getting worse. I also saw that apparently this nurse flew on a commercial airline the night before she was isolated at the hospital with fever. If she was one of the healthcare workers being monitored after having direct contact with Duncan, why the hell was she allowed to go on a commercial flight?
We really have a mess on our hands here, and it’s going to come down to juggling Civil Liberties vs. Public Health. The fact that all these patients names have been released to the media through HIPAA out the window. What’s next?
threw not through. . .sorry, got too worked up I guess.
We should be encouraged GenX. The President cancelled a fundraiser to call a meeting at the White House on Ebola. His embecilic CDC director famously said last week that all hospitals in the US are fully capable of dealing with Ebola. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Most don’t have the isolation rooms, equipment, suits or training to handle this outbreak. I wonder what the ER nurses and doctors think about all this. They have a very dangerous occupation now.
I could be wrong, but I *think* the family members released the patient names. So, it might not be a HIPAA issue – at least not right now. But either way, it’s still kind of terrifying to think about. :/
Soon to be more infamous than Typhoid Mary. Ebola Tommy.
Don’t forget feral fido. I wondered if they’ve interviewed the dog yet to see what contact it may have had. The article mentions bats/chimpanzees — why isn’t it mentioning dogs? They certainly mentioned it over the weekend, and actually noted that they had “a facility in place to monitor the animal.”
…but at least we have the common sense to quarantine animals coming in from just about anywhere to make certain that infections not indigenous to our country are identified and contained. Individual civil liberties stop when they begin to impact the welfare and mortality of society in general. More interesting to me, though, is when did common sense die in this country?? Probably right after concern for fellow humans.
Puzzled – Entry can be denied to non-citizens based on health and safety reasons. However, you can not deny entry to a U.S. citizen for that reason.