We should all be careful to avoid opinion and speculation and try to get the facts. The first test was three days after he began to show a fever and was done by a Chinese group volunteering in Africa. The test is a DNA based test and does take some time to run. Five days later he felt worse and a second test was run by the hospital in Freeport Africa. The positive result led to his being brought back to the US. So over 8 days had passed from the initial symptoms. Bottom-line, there is a test. He had been ill for well over 8 days before he began receiving treatment in the US.
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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
THIS is why the nurse in Maine and her followers were way too flippant:
Salia, a Sierra Leone citizen who was a permanent resident of the U.S. and lived in Maryland, first showed Ebola symptoms on Nov. 6 but tested negative for the virus. He eventually tested positive on Monday. So let's see. Nov. 6 was Thursday, when he tested negative. He tested positive on Monday the 10th.
WHEN he tested positive 4 days after being negative, he was immediately so sick he was apparently beyond treatment. That means he was immediately highly contagious the day or two before!
Without quarantining people coming from such exposure places or work sites, they could unknowingly infect hundreds of the healthcare workers most qualified to fight and treat it!
I don't know when people are going to wake up about how easily and quickly this thing can be spread, and only a few centers like Omaha and Emory are equipped and able and funded to have 7 nurses at a time, plus legions of other staff taking care of patients like Nina Pham and Amber Vinson needed.
If one of these hospitals got 10-20 ebola patients--some of whom are the hospital's staff nurses, doctors and techs--they'd have to shut down and all the hundreds of existing patients would be up s*** creek without a paddle. |