Ebola lapses persisted for days at Dallas hospital, medical records show

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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/18/ebola-lapses-persisted-for-days-at-dallas-hospital-medical-records-show/

Scores of staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were put at risk by lapses in the treatment of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., the patient's medical records show.

The medical records of Thomas Eric Duncan, given to the Associated Press by his family, provide a window of the span of exposure to the hospital's workers in the early days of Duncan's treatment.

The records show that because of a lag in implementing preventative measures or because of insufficient measures, multiple hospital staffers were put at risk.

The hospital's protective protocol was "insufficient," said Dr. Joseph McCormick of the University of Texas School of Public Health, who was part of the CDC team that investigated the first recorded Ebola outbreak in 1976. "The gear was inadequate. The procedures in the room were inadequate."

[Atomic Cow]

At this point, all everyone can do is learn from it.

There is a really good interview by the attending physician for all 3 Ebola patients (who himself has not gotten sick) where he talks about this.  He is convinced that before they switched to the higher level protection (like what is seen in the video of Nina Pham, which was was filming) is when both nurses were exposed.  Not because they made a mistake, but because the protection level was not sufficient and it made it too easy to be exposed, not just when wearing it, but when removing it.

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My sister-in-law is an RN in Flagstaff. Fairly large regional hospital.

She said they had no procedures, that they did not know what they should do, if an ebola-like situation arose. She is a senior level person, in her department.

This was at the same time that Obama's CDC chief was issuing reassuring pronouncements about how they had things under full control, knew what to do etc.

I think the RNC is writing Nov. 4th campaign pieces right now, using Obama's claim his policies will be on the ballot, etc.