This article set my mind at ease a bit. Hopefully it can do the same for others.
> During this contact tracing process, officials made a staggering 18,500 face-to-face visits.
Who here thinks the CDC has done anywhere near the same level of review?
The level of hubris is striking. "It won't happen here" is not a comfort when our hospitals can't contain an infection.
And of course seeing two US nurses get it from one patient illustrates that our healthcare system is not prepared to contain it. Hopefully that will be fixed within a couple of months.
There is no indication that it's changed to be more transmissible. Have you read the report that the Dallas nurses gave to the nurses union? Here it is, if you haven't:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-dallas-20141014-st...
It's a private hospital and is self-policing when it comes to preparing for and implementing CDC protocols. Based on the allegations, they clearly had not made the necessary preparations, so the nurses were very poorly protected and almost certainly came into contact with excretions from the patient. The fact that the nurses had to release this information via a union that didn't represent them because of fear of whistleblowing probably has a lot to do with how this situation came about.
I don't mean this as a criticism about the content of you're message, but I'm just wondering why this happens. Are you commenting from an unusual type of browser, or are you manually adding hard returns, not realizing that simply writing and adding hard returns at logical points (rather than screen positions) is the best approach?
Either way, I strongly recommend you start avoiding the 'return' key except when you want to start a new line of thought (e.g. a paragraph). It would really make it easier for me and perhaps others to read your comment.
Americans actually believe this.
Unfortunately there are always incompetent nurses, staff, and probably even doctors that hide among the competent. You always find a couple of them in the hospital. Thankfully I've only ever encountered incompetent nurses, or nurse aids. Especially nurse aids. Doctors have been OK.
They are really hard to get rid off because they do just enough to not get fired. They also work really hard to mask their mediocrity.
Of course, I have not been able to experience the health care of other countries so there is a chance that USA's health care is worse than I think. I'll be extremely happy once we are able to automate health care.
/Facepalm