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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #650 on: November 14, 2014, 10:46:28 PM »
It was, but it has since largely recovered to the typical pre-Duncan levels, but that hospital has not been doing so hot for a while now.  A hospital of that size (almost 900 beds) probably has around 5000 employees.

So that would be 200-300 actual medical staff and the rest administration types, right?
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #651 on: November 15, 2014, 11:31:45 AM »
So that would be 200-300 actual medical staff and the rest administration types, right?


I am not sure what you mean. To me, 'medical staff' means physicians with privileges at the hospital.  The largest category of employees at any hospital is going to be the nursing staff.  Although it varies according to hospital size, a good rule of thumb is that about 60% of all hospital employees are nurses.  Other clinical staff, support staff and administration types make up the other 40%. 
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #652 on: November 15, 2014, 12:44:39 PM »
As a poor benighted layman I made the error of considering the nursing contingent as part of "medical staff".

But, just be sure I was a being facetious and poking a little fun at the chronic shortage of nursing staff in most hospitals.

if it got  your knickers in a twist so much the better.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #653 on: November 15, 2014, 12:50:23 PM »
As a poor benighted layman I made the error of considering the nursing contingent as part of "medical staff".

But, just be sure I was a being facetious and poking a little fun at the chronic shortage of nursing staff in most hospitals.

if it got  your knickers in a twist so much the better.

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Wow, I thought you were asking a serious question and I tried to give you a helpful answer.  No good deed goes unpunished, I suppose.  And yes, for someone who works in healthcare administration, 'medical staff' is a term of art that has a specific meaning.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #654 on: November 15, 2014, 08:00:19 PM »
Reading about this latest physician they brought back makes me think the perfect record for curing people who were brought to the US for treatment* may get a ding in it.

*Mr Duncan does not count, he brought himself.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #655 on: November 17, 2014, 09:58:54 PM »
Well, that didn't take long.  =( 

I wonder if he tried hiding or ignoring the symptoms until he just couldn't anymore? It is a also a good reminder that this disease does have a fairly high mortality rate and scooting off to a first world country will not ensure your survival.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #656 on: November 17, 2014, 10:30:09 PM »
Well, that didn't take long.  =(  

I wonder if he tried hiding or ignoring the symptoms until he just couldn't anymore? It is a also a good reminder that this disease does have a fairly high mortality rate and scooting off to a first world country will not ensure your survival.

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No, he was tested after suspected exposure and early symptoms. The test came back negative. Ten days later he still had symptoms so he was tested again -- result was positive. By then it was too late.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #657 on: November 18, 2014, 01:44:59 AM »
But we've been told."the test " is perfect!

My inner evil person is still miffed that Nurse Snowflake didn't come down with it.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #659 on: November 18, 2014, 05:56:05 PM »
Well that adds a whole new dimension.

Indian TSA  agents take sperm samples?
That ebola could make it to India would be a disaster.Glad the guy made it.I can't help but be bemusedly horrified thinking about how the Indians acquired that sample though. >:D
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #660 on: November 19, 2014, 09:55:47 AM »
Indian TSA  agents take sperm samples?

That one does raise some questions.  I guess it's possible that, under the circumstances, they isolated him on arrival to test every fluid they could get out of him.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #661 on: November 23, 2014, 07:12:57 AM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/world/africa/ebola-spread-has-slowed-in-liberia-cdc-says.html

Liberia and allies restrain Ebola in Liberia.

There is still no Ebola pandemic in the United States.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #664 on: November 28, 2014, 01:04:41 PM »
Meanwhile, if you wear a green suit and went to Ebolaland to build hospitals and other infrastructure, but not actually, you know, work with Ebola patients, you get to cool your heels for 21 days on my old stomping grounds.  Well, not precisely.  While I was stationed in Baumholder on HD Smith Barracks, the buildings they are using to quarantine the troops were the old 293rd and later 40th Engineer Battalion barracks.  Funny that they are using a fest-tent for the DFAC when there's one within the battalion area.  I think the fence is a nice touch.

http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/baumholder-quarantine-site-ready-for-troops-returning-from-ebola-mission-1.314239

http://www.stripes.com/news/us-troops-return-from-ebola-related-mission-for-monitoring-in-germany-1.315882
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #665 on: February 16, 2015, 09:36:04 AM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #666 on: February 16, 2015, 09:44:46 AM »
Oh no it didn't disappear. Don't you know Atkinson the " investigative journalist" is peddling the story that there are 1400 secret cases being monitored in the us. Or at least the wnd infowars crowd is claiming it and using her as their source


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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #667 on: February 17, 2015, 10:37:14 PM »
Has anybody seen my shocked face?  I know I had it here somewhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/africa/sierra-leone-loses-track-of-millions-in-ebola-funds.html?ref=science&_r=1

And if that's not enough, there's always this http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/health/ebola-victims-still-infectious-a-week-after-death-scientists-find.html?ref=science to make you feel all warm and fuzzy (or are you running a fever?) about the whole thing.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #668 on: February 17, 2015, 10:45:15 PM »
Has anybody seen my shocked face?  I know I had it here somewhere.


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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #669 on: February 17, 2015, 10:50:33 PM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #670 on: February 18, 2015, 07:02:11 AM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/world/africa/ebola-spread-has-slowed-in-liberia-cdc-says.html

Liberia and allies restrain Ebola in Liberia.

There is still no Ebola pandemic in the United States.

Western Civilization is victorious once again, as I predicted.


Didn't pretty much everybody predict that?
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #671 on: February 18, 2015, 07:12:54 AM »
Er no. Much end of the worldism. In fact the Atkinson 1400 secret ebola cases joke still circulates


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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #672 on: February 18, 2015, 07:56:38 AM »
It's too bad Boko Haram didn't have an outbreak.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #673 on: February 18, 2015, 08:33:36 AM »
Well, fine. Not everybody. Wasn't the EBOLA-ZOMBIE-TEOTWAWKI-OHTHENOES!!!11 always a minority viewpoint? It ain't like MicroBalrog was some lone prophet in the wilderness.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #674 on: February 18, 2015, 08:45:02 AM »
The ebola noise was pretty broad spectrum


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