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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (146263)	10/17/2014 4:34:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You can try to blame the hospital, but perhaps the instructions from the CDC office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response were lacking Perhaps they were first sent instructions in July and the hospital effectively blew it off. The blame for sending Duncan home and for failure to use protcol to protect nurses for several days lies squarely with the hospital, and, more specifically, the Medical director of the ER, the head of Infection Control, and prolly the Medical director of the ICU. Took them like 3 days to think about wearing protective booties on their shoes. What's amazing is how the story changed and evolved. Originally, no one knew that Duncan had just travelled from W. Africa. Then a few days later the admitting nurse knew but not the MD who saw him. Then a few days after that........the MD knew. This hospital not only was not prepared, they clearly don't have a strong moral compass.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (146263)	10/22/2014 10:26:16 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Is this how the "Blue States" handle a suspected Ebola patient? Go away and don't come back until we have completed construction on our "biocontainment area" CNSNews.com – The Virginia Hospital Center, which is rated as one of the nation’s Top 100 hospitals and which turned away a suspected Ebola patient last Friday after the patient waited outside the hospital in an ambulance for an estimated 20 minutes, says it was not yet prepared to admit the patient at that time in light of suspected Ebola cases that had surfaced elsewhere and changing CDC guidelines. The hospital says it believed it first needed to finish constructing an anteroom that staff could use going in and out of a suspected Ebola patient’s room in the hospital’s “biocontainment area.”