RSSUNBELIEVABLE … CDC OK’d Ebola Patient Amber Joy Vinson to Travel By Air With “Low-Grade” Fever
IS THE CDC ON OUR SIDE OR NOT … THE CDC SAY THEY KNOW EVERYTHING AND HAVE PROTOCOLS IN PLACE APPEAR TO KNOW LITTLE.
Are you kidding me, a nurse that had treated an Ebola patient who died, and a second healthcare worker infected with the virus, was allowed to board a plane with a low grade fever. I am speechless.The second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola, Amber Joy Vinson, traveled by air October 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms. How did the CDC give this individual a green light to travel? The Frontier plane in question made five additional flights before it was finally taken out of service. Making matters worse, if possible, Dr. LaPook on the CBS Evening News. said,“This nurse, Nurse Vinson, did in fact call the CDC several times before taking that flight and said she has a temperature, a fever of 99.5, and the person at the CDC looked at a chart and because her temperature wasn’t 100.4 or higher she didn’t officially fall into the category of high risk.” UNREAL!!!
How do you let anyone who had exposure to an Ebola patient with any type of fever get on a plane? These are the folks that we are entrusting protocols to? Really?
The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola — now identified as Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas — traveled by air Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms.
The CDC is now reaching out to all passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT.
All 132 passengers on the flight are being asked to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800 232-4636). Public health professionals will begin interviewing passengers about the flight Wednesday afternoon.
“Although she (Vinson) did not report any symptoms and she did not meet the fever threshold of 100.4, she did report at that time she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden. Her temperature coupled with the fact that she had been exposed to the virus should have prevented her from getting on the plane, he said. “I don’t think that changes the level of risk of people around her. She did not vomit, she was not bleeding, so the level of risk of people around her would be extremely low.”
Just how incompetent are the folks at the CDC?
The day before she went to the hospital with Ebola symptoms, Amber Vinson was flying halfway across the country on a commercial jet with 132 other people.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said she never should have stepped foot on the flight, but another federal official told CNN that no one at the agency stopped her.
Before flying from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, Vinson called the CDC to report an elevated temperature of 99.5 Fahrenheit. She informed the agency that she was getting on a plane, the official said, and she wasn’t told not to board the aircraft.
- Frontier Flight 2042 departed to Dallas on Oct. 14 at 8:11 a.m. CDT and arrived in Cleveland at 11:14 a.m. EDT
- Frontier Flight 1104 departed Cleveland on Oct. 14 at 12:24 p.m. EDT and arrived in Fort Lauderdale at 3 p.m. EDT
- Frontier Flight 1105 departed Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 14 at 4:02 p.m. EDT and arrived in Cleveland at 6:16 p.m. EDT
- Frontier Flight 1101 departed Cleveland on Oct. 14 7:24 p.m. EDT and arrived in Atlanta at 9:03 p.m. EDT
- Frontier Flight 1100 departed Atlanta on Oct. 14 at 10:12 p.m. EDT and arrived in Cleveland at 11:19 p.m. EDT
- Frontier jet lands in Denver Wednesday afternoon and is taken to a Frontier maintenance hanger for further decontamination cleanup procedures.
Posted October 16, 2014 by Scared Monkeys Ebola, Healthcare, Travel, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 9 comments |
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OCTOBER 5, 2014
Yale students quarantined after trip to Liberia amid Ebola concerns
October 5, 2014
http://wtnh.com/2014/10/05/yale-students-quarantined-after-trip-to-liberia-amid-ebola-concerns/
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Yale students who researched Ebola in Liberia will not sequester themselves
October 14, 2014
http://foxct.com/2014/10/14/yale-researchers-who-planned-to-be-quarantined-are-back-in-new-haven-not-isolated/
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Connecticut patient in isolation with Ebola-like symptoms
October 16, 2014
http://wtnh.com/2014/10/05/yale-students-quarantined-after-trip-to-liberia-amid-ebola-concerns/
Red/Klaas
The third link in my post should be:
http://www.wcvb.com/health/connecticut-patient-in-isolation-with-ebolalike-symptoms/29162962?absolute=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wcvb
Thanks
UPDATE
Connecticut patient in isolation ‘not believed to be’ Ebola case
Oct 16, 2014
http://www.wcvb.com/health/connecticut-patient-in-isolation-with-ebolalike-symptoms/29162962
The first question should be: How was this nurse allowed to travel anywhere outside Dallas. The hospital and DCD protocols should have prevented travel until it was known that medical personnel met the full 21 days with no symptoms.
We have a lot of people who simply are not cognizant of how things really work acting in decision making capacities. We have to find a way for teaching these people to look at everything associated with protecting the public.
Why would she of notified CDC with a low grade fever if she hadn’t of known, or suspected, she treated and released an Ebola victim. And how did the the second nurse contact Ebola is she was wearing protective gear?
The CDC is incompetent….are we being lied to….if the second nurse who treated Duncan was wearing protective gear why did she contact the disease. Is this airborne????
I think Ebola is an extremely highly contagious disease….obama is lying, acting low-key because of his political legacy and the election approaching.
If the second nurse, Nina Pfam knew she was dealing with an Ebola patient and being so very, very cautious and protecting herself from contamination, how come she is now an Ebola patient????????????.
how many besides me think the government is allowing this virus to be spread on purpose ?
also this nurse is either stupid or was allowed to travel so the disease could spread. being a nurse, she knew she should not travel. any nurse would know this. how is ebola not airborne when thousands are dying in Africa and we know all these people don’t live in the same area ?
I read where there are 100 to 150 arriving daily from Liberia and where are these people going ?
ebola will be in every state in this country if flights from Africa are not banned.
Why are they flying these sick people all over the country? Is this a plan to infect as many people as possible in several areas? I don’t trust anything this government does and I especially don’t trust Barack Hussein Obama. There should be an immediate ban on travel from West Africa to the US immediately and those in the country who are ill should be kept where they are to reduce the chance of spreading this lethal disease.
The hopey-changy thing is not working well for me or the country and those who put this clown in office should be ashamed of themselves for not having better sense than voting for a person who has no experience in government, is likely a foreign-born Muslim, and was never more than a community organizer–a rabble rouser. We see how this works. Is this what you wanted when you voted for him? Did you even know anything about his background?