TweetThe White House scrambled Wednesday to ease concerns over the spread of Ebola after a second Texas hospital worker tested positive for the virus, as lawmakers showed patience wearing thin with the current response and demanded immediate changes.

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TweetThis is what happens when politics and media sensationlism mixes with public health. At least Obama is responding with good use of our military in Africa for containment. SARS did not spark the hysteria Ebola did yet has airborne transmission. Here at Emory we did not get credit for treating them successfully in our isolation unit, same ones used for Ebola. MERS has up to 60% mortality rate but we did not call for a travel ban to and from Saudi or Egypt. Same reason we did not ban direct flights from Asia during the Avian flu and SARs. Basic epidemiology shows if you ban travel to and from directly linked countries people with take indirect flights which makes tracking point source infections exponentially more difficult and eliminate the tougher screening protocols enacted between the sending and recieving countries. If a LIberian takes a flight to Denmark then flys here, the scrutiny will not be as meticulous.


Those nurses were unfortunate to have a ID policy that was dismal. We have glove, gown, mask and goggle protocols where if you don't gown up and down in the right order, there will be contamination. Notice none of the doctors or family members of the texas patient are ill. The poor nurses have to deal with his projectile vomitting and explosive diarrhea which was blood laden ( it's a hemmoragic disease) and they didn' even wear a mask or goggles the first two days.....