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It's getting bigger every day.............

Whitewing

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And no, I'm not talking about the waistband on the fatman's wornout size 86 underware.

The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola — now identified as Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas — traveled by air Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms.

The CDC is now reaching out to all passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT.


All 132 passengers on the flight are being asked to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800 232-4636). Public health professionals will begin interviewing passengers about the flight Wednesday afternoon.

“Although she (Vinson) did not report any symptoms and she did not meet the fever threshold of 100.4, she did report at that time she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden. Her temperature coupled with the fact that she had been exposed to the virus should have prevented her from getting on the plane, he said. “I don’t think that changes the level of risk of people around her. She did not vomit, she was not bleeding, so the level of risk of people around her would be extremely low.”

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/ebola-patient-traveled-day-before-diagnosis/
 

Whitewing

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Mike said:
Buckwheat's bunch could screw up a soup sammich. :wink:

She flew to Ohio to visit relatives who are employees of Kent State. The plane made 5 additional trips after she left it and before it was 'decontaminated', so I guess that's about 130 additional persons X 5 who should be made aware that they may have shared air/bodily fluids with the chick.

I see airline stocks are already tanking. This chit hasn't even started to take hold.
 
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Anonymous

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CNN Defends New Slogan

By Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, attempted on Wednesday to defuse the brewing controversy over his decision to change the network’s official slogan from “The Most Trusted Name in News” to “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die.”

“This exciting new slogan is just one piece of our over-all rebranding strategy,” Zucker said. “Going forward, we want CNN to be synonymous with the threat of imminent death.”

He added that the network expected to see strong ratings growth as a result of having the words “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die” on-screen twenty-four hours a day.

Part of Zucker’s new strategy was on display during Tuesday’s edition of the network’s signature program, “The Situation Room,” in which a visibly ill-at-ease Wolf Blitzer appeared dressed as The Grim Reaper.

“That’s a work in progress,” Zucker said about Blitzer’s makeover. “But once Wolf gets comfortable swinging that scythe, he’s going to be amazing.”




Andy Borowitz

Ebola Straining American Political System's Capacity to Assign Blame
 

Whitewing

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I think this has been described as leading from behind.

“Those who have exposures to Ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline,” said Dr. Frieden. “The CDC guidance in this setting outlines the need for controlled movement.

I think he's HNIC at the CDC. I know I'm reassured. :roll:
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
CNN Defends New Slogan

By Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, attempted on Wednesday to defuse the brewing controversy over his decision to change the network’s official slogan from “The Most Trusted Name in News” to “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die.”

“This exciting new slogan is just one piece of our over-all rebranding strategy,” Zucker said. “Going forward, we want CNN to be synonymous with the threat of imminent death.”

He added that the network expected to see strong ratings growth as a result of having the words “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die” on-screen twenty-four hours a day.

Part of Zucker’s new strategy was on display during Tuesday’s edition of the network’s signature program, “The Situation Room,” in which a visibly ill-at-ease Wolf Blitzer appeared dressed as The Grim Reaper.

“That’s a work in progress,” Zucker said about Blitzer’s makeover. “But once Wolf gets comfortable swinging that scythe, he’s going to be amazing.”




Andy Borowitz

Ebola Straining American Political System's Capacity to Assign Blame

Being the numbnut that we've come to know and love, you again miss the entire point.....which has little to do with dying and a lot to do with seeing the economy crippled.

My personal opinion is that it's time the CDC and the HNIC come out and say, "travel to west Africa, and you will be quarantined when you return to the States. If you're from West Africa, don't even bother thinking about coming to the US".
 

hypocritexposer

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yep, it's almost like allowing an exposed reporter to "self quarantine" and then having to get a court order to quarantine her after she goes out for take-out. :roll:
 

hopalong

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Leave it up to oldtimer to reley on a jokester to make things right...
as Forestt said STUPID is as STUPIDS posts. and anyone who relies on boring witz for facts is just that STUPID

EH oldtimer??????
 

Whitewing

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Nip it.
barney_fife-150x150.jpg
 

hypocritexposer

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It must be getting pretty serious...Barry has cancelled a fundraiser, to have a meeting.

He didn't even do that for Benghazi.

Must be an election coming up.
 

Whitewing

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Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records.

Duncan was suspected of having Ebola when he was admitted to a hospital isolation unit Sept. 28, and he developed projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea later that day, according to medical records his family turned over to The Associated Press.

But workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas did not abandon their gowns and scrubs for hazmat suits until tests came back positive for Ebola about 2 p.m. on Sept. 30, according to details of the records released by AP.

Projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea and medical care without hazmat suits. What could go wrong?
 

hypocritexposer

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I'd be interested in knowing when these 2, out of the 70, cared for Duncan.

If he wasn't in any type of isolation, then janitors and such will have also been exposed.
 

Whitewing

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hypocritexposer said:
I'd be interested in knowing when these 2, out of the 70, cared for Duncan.

If he wasn't in any type of isolation, then janitors and such will have also been exposed.

There were crap, urine, and vomit-stained linens stacked to the ceiling.

What I think we're seeing is a real-life replay of the SNL skit where they sent Garrett Morris in to clean up the heavy water spill at 3 Mile Island.
 

Traveler

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There were crap, urine, and vomit-stained linens stacked to the ceiling.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/10/15/obama-presser-n1905711

His track record of being wrong comes to mind.

Obama: I Hugged and Kissed Emory Hospital Nurses and I Don't Have Ebola ...
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ranch hand

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Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola, called the CDC a number of times ahead of her Frontier Airlines flight. She had a 99.5-degree fever, but the CDC said it was OK for her to board the plane since her fever wasn’t 100.5 degrees or higher.
 
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