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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (502)	11/3/2014 11:04:20 AM
From: Fintas	Respond to of 608

Re learning fast? I know of a specific hospital in the north east that just failed miserably. I have a little experience setting things up. I have a lot of experience getting a majority to do what they should do. HMM how about stopping a mass from texting. How about getting all to get a flu shot. Now we would have a better chance if it were DICTATED.. THOU SHALL. But as long as we have debate over what is needed, how, etc we are learning fast as compared to.. 0 to 10 0 to 50 Zero to 100. Here's your key point. "The risk that I think would be most concerning is if ZEBOV were to get into Central America / Mexico and people start fleeing into the US illegally. And hiding their disease state in poor high-density populations in the US." Forget the if. that will happen. And for those who are bad guys.. Forget Central America.. It's not hard to bring them from many other areas. So until.. I hear the next case.. I'm eating snickers bar in my confined clean room. SMILE Fintas

To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (502)	11/4/2014 7:07:27 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 608

Reality is that ebola is a biohazard level IV risk... and that isn't going to change... It is one issue that we have very few biohazard level IV capable facilities... It is another that we have few people capable of handling them... It is another that you can't just convert a facility and train up people... without it costing huge money, and without it eliminating large swaths of capacity that exist for OTHER reasons... One case, in New York, means shutting down the ENTIRE Bellevue ICU... and, its not like there are a lot of surplus ICU facilities and staffs lying around... so each Ebola patient... costs others in access to care. The "correct answer" isn't that "we'll figure it out"... The correct answer is... "we will do what is required to prevent that need from arising"...