Ebola......Now on our shores. what happens next?

• fish82

  

  pmoney25;1665954 wrote:Well apparently the nurse who came to Cleveland no longer has Ebola and no one else has been infected.

  According to her family.
  
  Either she was misdiagnosed to start with, or her family is lying. It doesn't leave the body that quickly.
• pmoney25

  

  Well the statement says Doctors and the cdc can no longer find traces of Ebola in her blood. They will keep her in the hospital for a little bit longer. I know drs and science can't always be trusted though.
  
  The other nurse has been upgraded to good condition as well.
  
  No one from Duncan's flight or his family has it and it seems no one else from the hospital does either.
  
  Needless to say while Ebola is a bad disease. I don't think it will be a worldwide pandemic many seem to think.
• fish82

  

  pmoney25;1666027 wrote:Well the statement says Doctors and the cdc can no longer find traces of Ebola in her blood. They will keep her in the hospital for a little bit longer. I know drs and science can't always be trusted though.
  
  The other nurse has been upgraded to good condition as well.
  
  No one from Duncan's flight or his family has it and it seems no one else from the hospital does either.
  
  Needless to say while Ebola is a bad disease. I don't think it will be a worldwide pandemic many seem to think.

  Agreed.
  
  I just find it curious that this is coming from her family, and that there has been no official statement from the CDC on Vinson's status, given how high profile her case was.
  
  Again, there's no way she'd be virus free that quickly, assuming she actually had it.
• Belly35

  

  fish82;1666069 wrote:Agreed.
  
  I just find it curious that this is coming from her family, and that there has been no official statement from the CDC on Vinson's status, given how high profile her case was.
  
  Again, there's no way she'd be virus free that quickly, assuming she actually had it.

  No information will be released via CDC .... Keeping in the down low until Midterm Election is over.... that is as transparent America gets
• vdubb96

  

  I still don't have Ebola, hope this helps.
• Heretic

  

  vdubb96;1666076 wrote:I still don't have Ebola, hope this helps.

  You just think that because the government told you that you don't. You're actually already dead.
  
  Thanks Obama!
• vdubb96

  

  Heretic;1666081 wrote:You just think that because the government told you that you don't. You're actually already dead.
  
  Thanks Obama!

  
• fish82

  

  NYC. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html
• Belly35

  

  CASE # 4
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/24/ebola-fear-epidemic-in-us-official-says/
• TedSheckler

  

  This dumbass doctor has Ebola, rides the subway, rides in a cab, and goes bowling. Good thinking there, champ.
  
  DeBlasio says that NYC has been preparing for this for months. Then you see 2 NYPD officers who went to this doctor's apartment walk outside and remove their mask and gloves and just throw them in a trashcan on the sidewalk. Wow.
• Automatik

  

  I live 15 min walk from Brooklyn Bowl. Pray for me guyz!
• gut

  Belly35;1666266 wrote:CASE # 4

  It's spiraling out of control
• Belly35

  

  gut;1666302 wrote:It's spiraling out of control

  not yet but it could .....
• fish82

  

  gut;1666302 wrote:It's spiraling out of control

  Starting to get a little pissed that the rioting and looting haven't started yet, tbh.
• BR1986FB

  Per Yahoo....
  

  Breaking News

  [h=2]Dallas nurse Nina Pham now Ebola-free, to be released from hospital, says NIH[/h]

• pmoney25

  

  So the two people who caught Ebola in the US are fine. I also believe that other than Duncan, all who have been treated in the US who caught Ebola in Africa have survived.
  
  Looks like another 2-3 weeks wait to see what happens with the NY doctor
• BR1986FB

  pmoney25;1666362 wrote:So the two people who caught Ebola in the US are fine. I also believe that other than Duncan, all who have been treated in the US who caught Ebola in Africa have survived.
  
  Looks like another 2-3 weeks wait to see what happens with the NY doctor

  I'm thinking they may have caught it too late in Duncan. Plus, Pham had a bllod donation from the one doctor who beat it so that could be a factor?
• queencitybuckeye

  pmoney25;1666362 wrote:So the two people who caught Ebola in the US are fine. I also believe that other than Duncan, all who have been treated in the US who caught Ebola in Africa have survived.
  

  Correct, excluding the newest case, 7 of 8 have survived. Nasty disease, but the difference in fatality rates here vs. 3rd world is incredible, but not particularly surprising.
• thavoice

  BR1986FB;1666364 wrote:I'm thinking they may have caught it too late in Duncan. Plus, Pham had a bllod donation from the one doctor who beat it so that could be a factor?

  They didnt treat him a well because he was black.
• gut

  queencitybuckeye;1666366 wrote:Correct, excluding the newest case, 7 of 8 have survived. Nasty disease, but the difference in fatality rates here vs. 3rd world is incredible, but not particularly surprising.

  Small sample size, but maybe it is being treated more successfully. Likely a bigger reason is most of the ill have been doctors/nurses treating it who have been on specific watch for symptoms and are being diagnosed/treated at basically the first sign of infection.
  
  Take an average person who doesn't have reason to think it isn't the flu, and who waits 2-3 days before going to the hospital and I guarantee the survival rate drops significantly.
• queencitybuckeye

  gut;1666381 wrote:Small sample size, but maybe it is being treated more successfully. Likely a bigger reason is most of the ill have been doctors/nurses treating it who have been on specific watch for symptoms and are being diagnosed/treated at basically the first sign of infection.
  
  Take an average person who doesn't have reason to think it isn't the flu, and who waits 2-3 days before going to the hospital and I guarantee the survival rate drops significantly.

  Don't doubt it, but to return your guarantee with one of my own, the mortality rate in your case would still be lower here. A lot lower.
  
  Stat of the day: More Americans have married Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola.
• Heretic

  

  I'm noticing there is a strong correlation between people on this site who think Ebola is this huge potential epidemic that'll leave America a zombie-loaded wasteland and people on this site who are politards.
  
  
• BR1986FB

  queencitybuckeye;1666383 wrote: Stat of the day: More Americans have married Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola.

  And in hindsight, if they had to do it again, those who married her would opt for the Ebola.
• Heretic

  

  BR1986FB;1666390 wrote:And in hindsight, if they had to do it again, those who married her would opt for the Ebola.

  lol, so true.
• gut

  queencitybuckeye;1666383 wrote:Don't doubt it, but to return your guarantee with one of my own, the mortality rate in your case would still be lower here. A lot lower.

  Lower, no idea if it would be significantly lower. Treatment efficacy is most likely directly related to how soon you get treatment. The protocol is probably the same - these doctors going overseas to help aren't using salt and vinegar, they're taking the same antibiotics with them and IV's that you'd get here. They don't go over empty-handed to treat the sick.
  
  The one exception I'm aware of is using blood/antibodies from that one doctor who had recovered to treat the nurse. That's likely an extraordinary treatment you or I wouldn't have gotten, and appears to have been experimental and no idea if it helped or not.