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Hot?I just realized that girl graduated a year before me from my High School. Weird shit.
Hot?I just realized that girl graduated a year before me from my High School. Weird shit.
Nnnno no no. But way to further perpetutate this myth.
This is the issue at hand - they weren't in protective gear nor did they take any necessary steps to protect themselves. Why do you think the media is up in arms about the way the hospital handled the situation?
Also, I can assure you that he came into contact with more than just two nurses. The fact that only two have been infected out of the entire bunch should tell you something.
That's completely wrong, they were wearing almost full body suits. The only exposed skin was their necks, where did you see they didn't take any necessary steps?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-nurse-flew-cleveland-prepare-wedding/story?id=26218029
That's completely wrong, they were wearing almost full body suits. The only exposed skin was their necks, where did you see they didn't take any necessary steps?
Were protocols in place at the hospital to deal with Ebola?
The nurses who talked to National Nurses United said Ebola guidelines for the health care workers at the Dallas hospital were "constantly changing," the union said.
"The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place, and ... those protocols are not in place anywhere in the United States as far as we can tell," National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said Tuesday night. "We're deeply alarmed."
You would think NBA players and all professional athletes would be at high risk as well with all the traveling and all touching the same ball on the court with different teams from all over the country...
Ebola isn't contagious enough for this to be a "global killer" as has been so over-dramatically put.
This is not the power of hindsight, this should be common sense. We've seen exactly one case of ebola in the US so far, and she's one of the few handful of people in the entire country to have treated him. Is it really too much to ask to limit your exposure until we know you're not carrying a panic-inducing disease?
You called her at the low end of the risk spectrum a couple times, uh what? Low end of risk, for ebola. That alone should have her in quarantine, and her superiors fired for giving her permission to fly on a commercial flight.
Hindsight bias, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect, is the effect whereby people think that past events were predictable, or at least more predictable than they actually were. This is because after an event, the probability of it happening is, naturally, 100%. The bias arises because people ignore the things that didn't happen or the things that didn't cause the event - known as the "availability heuristic". This allows people to point to specific causes of an event (such as a catastrophe) and ask, "Why wasn't something done about it?"
NO, those were not my words. It was paraphrasing what has been reported that she was told by her superiors. I stated that pretty clearly in the post you quoted, it's the 3rd fucking sentence of the post.
The CDC is supposed to be monitoring these people. If any one entity here has failed it is the CDC with their response to the situation.
She left to see her family on Oct 8th, the day the original Ebola patient died. She didn't start to feel feverish/ill until yesterday, Oct 14th (disease isn't transmittable until symptoms start)
What most people are stating is most definitely hindsight. By the the very definition of the word which is; understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed. (ie..she shouldn't have flown, she should have stay home, ect...any statement with "should have" or "could have" in is hindsight. It's not common sense, it's fucking hindsight and hindsight bias by the basic definition of the word and phrase) This is what hindsight bias is
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
So call it common sense if you want but it's fucking hindsight and hindsight bias regardless of what you want to refer to it has.
Second Ebola Nurse Violated Guidelines By Flying on Commercial Jet
A second Texas nurse who has tested positive for Ebola violated infection control guidelines by flying on a commercial jetliner from Cleveland to Dallas the night before she arrived at the hospital with a fever, officials said today.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-nurse-violated-guidelines-flying-commercial-jet/story?id=26206090