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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (146222)	10/16/2014 1:10:55 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

What specificity do you think the US President's role be in how a hospital operates. The CDC should determine the proper protocol to keep US health care workers safe from becoming infected from Ebola. I do not think that we should be treating Ebola patents in the general US hospital system as the risks of infection and death for the average US healthcare worker is too high for it to be an acceptable employment risk. I believe that the Texas hospital is an upper tier hospital and the results that we saw there are what I would expect in pretty much any US hospital. The proper protocol should be total isolation of suspected cases until proper test results are obtained with a definite positive or negative result. Prior to obtaining this test results hospital workers should avoid contact with the isolated patient. Upon a positive result the patient should be air lifted to one of the four specially designed hospitals with biocontainment units (Emory University, St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Instead of the CDC monitoring all 132 passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth we should eliminate, reduce or extensively monitor all of the incoming West African travelers on visas from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. I believe that the US can safely and successfully treat a very limited number of Ebola patients at a time in this country. (On the order of 20 or so) We should do everything possible to insure that we never have more that the this limited number of Ebola patients in this country. As the CDC reports and is directed by President Obama then I think that he should direct the CDC to do all of the above items.