While admire this doctor and the other healthcare workers who put their lives at risk to help those who suffer most from this awful disease, I think it is grossly irresponsible for them to return to the United States without a mandatory quarantine/re-entry period. This doctor has caused his fiancé, friends and potentially others to suffer at the very least a 21-day disruption of their lives as they are quarantined and at the worst – infection with this awful virus.
I understand that we are all more at risk of contracting and dying from something like the flu than we are Ebola, but the panic it has caused could have been avoided or at least reduced.
Hi GenX. Hindsight is always 20/20. After the CDC took it in the chops for the past few weeks, they finally got around to issuing protocols for this terrible virus. Now, they can look good by rushing teams to any outbreak. They certainly didn’t in Dallas and the Nurses Association said there were no protocols prior to the infected guy showing up there. The good news is that nurse Nina Pham was declared Ebola free and will be released today.
This doctor was stupid by not observing a self quarantine in Africa prior to returning, then running around NY on the subways, cabs, going bowling, out to eat before the quarantine was up. Now, just look at the chaos in NY trying to find all persons who had contact with him in a city of 8 million. I think they will be spending some serious money with everything they will have to do.
Agent – considering you’re not contagious until you show signs (ie. a temperature) it was perfectly OK for him to go out on a limited basis. The minute he had a temp of 100.3, he contacted the authorities. None of the people that were around Duncan came down with the virus, only the health care workers that were around his body fluids when the virus had advanced severely. You are the stupid one for spreading more unnecessary fear and using words like chaos.
While admire this doctor and the other healthcare workers who put their lives at risk to help those who suffer most from this awful disease, I think it is grossly irresponsible for them to return to the United States without a mandatory quarantine/re-entry period. This doctor has caused his fiancé, friends and potentially others to suffer at the very least a 21-day disruption of their lives as they are quarantined and at the worst – infection with this awful virus.
I understand that we are all more at risk of contracting and dying from something like the flu than we are Ebola, but the panic it has caused could have been avoided or at least reduced.
Hi GenX. Hindsight is always 20/20. After the CDC took it in the chops for the past few weeks, they finally got around to issuing protocols for this terrible virus. Now, they can look good by rushing teams to any outbreak. They certainly didn’t in Dallas and the Nurses Association said there were no protocols prior to the infected guy showing up there. The good news is that nurse Nina Pham was declared Ebola free and will be released today.
This doctor was stupid by not observing a self quarantine in Africa prior to returning, then running around NY on the subways, cabs, going bowling, out to eat before the quarantine was up. Now, just look at the chaos in NY trying to find all persons who had contact with him in a city of 8 million. I think they will be spending some serious money with everything they will have to do.
Agent – considering you’re not contagious until you show signs (ie. a temperature) it was perfectly OK for him to go out on a limited basis. The minute he had a temp of 100.3, he contacted the authorities. None of the people that were around Duncan came down with the virus, only the health care workers that were around his body fluids when the virus had advanced severely. You are the stupid one for spreading more unnecessary fear and using words like chaos.