Quote:robkelk wrote:Rob, that means the CDC will have to send a team to every hospital every time there's a possible threat. Which is going to smack of Big Brother, with the Big "B". Just to oversee something that the hospitals had been warned way beforehand. CDC does not have infinite people to go around. At the rate things are going, we will probably have an Ebola outbreak here in the U.S., Why? Because of stupidity.
Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:That explains why CDC is stepping in...
According to CBS radio news this morning, a second nurse has contracted the disease, and has informed the press that contrary to the hospital's initial announcements, they had no procedures and protocols in place for handing seriously infectious patients. They were apparently reduced to using surgical tape to try to seal their gowns against Duncan's vomitus and diarrhea before the hospital got its head out of its ass.
Edit: I wondering if the CDC does have enforcement authority over hospitals? The CDC website states:
Under 42 Code of Federal Regulations parts 70 and 71, CDC is authorized
to detain, medically examine, and release persons arriving into the
United States and traveling between states who are suspected of carrying
these communicable diseases.
Nowhere does it say the CDC can take control of your hospital. But since the President authorized it, who is going to argue about it?
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