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Originally Posted by icenine
Too say that health workers screw up is a bit unfair. Imagine you are into a 10 hour shift, dead tired, and a patient comes in with Ebola. No matter how good you are you are not your best after 10 hours in a busy ER...plus it is obvious that the management at the hospital in Texas was not up to snuff in protocols and PPE. At the end of the day the virus itself is causing the illness and no matter how good you are people will catch something. Otherwise no one would ever get sick.
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Yep, right you are. I have dealt with a one year old that is projectile vomiting and has explosive trots. If you can't stay clean handling a baby, imagine trying to be more successful handling a grown man, while also handling a couple ivs, doing a tracheotomy or intubation, cleaning up all the fluids, charting, taking blood samples, temps, hydration and nutrition, while in level B or C PPE. What a picnic!
This is going to get worse before it gets better. We aren't talking about MERSA, we are dealing with a biologic that until now has been dismissed as a third world problem. As Hurricane Katrina, illustrated, we are 48 hours removed from being a third world country.