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In an interview with Fox News, Scott Brown lauded praise on President Mitt Romney for being the only president able to end Ebola in America. (what? Mitt Romney was never president so Scott Brown has nothing to base his pointless conclusions on? Interesting. So then like the average Republican, Brown is only speaking out of his ass? Interesting!)
“Gosh can you imagine if Mitt was the president right now?” Brown said. “He was right on Russia, he was right on Obamacare, he was right on the economy. And I guarantee you we would not be worrying about Ebola right now and, you know, worrying about our foreign policy screw ups.”
Just for the record, Romney was then and still is wrong on Russia, demonstrably wrong on Obamacare and supremely wrong on the economy.
Nina Pham, the Texas nurse who tested positive for Ebola after caring for the now deceased Thomas E. Duncan, appeared in a fearwell video to the other healthcare workers that cared for her. She invited her physician, Dr. Gary Weinstein, to “come to Maryland” with her.
“Party, party in Maryland,” Weinstein joked.
“Thanks for being part of the volunteer team to take care of our first patient. It means a lot,” Weinstein told Pham as she teared up. “This has been a huge effort by all of you guys. We’re really proud of you.”
Pham was transported to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. on Thursday for further treatment.
When Thomas Eric Duncan made his first trip to the hospital in Dallas Texas, he did it for a reason. The man knew that he had just traveled from Liberia, a nation infested with the deadly Ebola virus. He also knew that while in Liberia days before he traveled to the US, he tried to help a girl with Ebola, driving her to the hospital for treatment and then bringing her back home that night where she died hours later.
When he saw the first signs that he too was infected, Thomas, who arrived in the United States on September 20th, went to the Dallas hospital only to be sent back home by hospital personnel with a dosage of Tylenol.
Tylenol is great, but Ebola is not a common cold or a headache. After the disease progressed, a weakened Duncan made a second trip to the hospital where he was immediately admitted and isolated.
The damage was already done.
Daniel Varga, Chief Clinical Officer of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital used a congressional hearing on Thursday to admit the hospital’s mistake.
“We made mistakes,” said Varga, who works for Texas Health Resources. “We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola, and we are deeply sorry.”
Duncan was admitted and isolated on September 26th, two days after his initial hospital visit. He was treated but eventually died on Oct. 8. Since his death, two other hospital nurses have been diagnosed with the disease and are now in isolation.
In a personal Facebook message, Mark Zuckerburg said he and his wife Priscilla “are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.
“The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.
“We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.
“We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome.
“Grants like this directly help the frontline responders in their heroic work. These people are on the ground setting up care centers, training local staff, identifying Ebola cases and much more.
“We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.
“The man was the third patient to arrive in Germany in recent weeks for treatment of Ebola, and the first to die.”
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A 56-year-old male Ebola patient who had been working with the United Nations in Liberia died overnight at the hospital in Leipzig where he was
being treated, the hospital said Tuesday in a statement quoted by the German news media.
The brief statement gave no further details. The man was the third patient to arrive in Germany in recent weeks for treatment of Ebola, and the first to die.
The first patient, a Senegalese man who worked for the World Health Organization, was treated in Hamburg from late August until Oct. 3, when he was released. He has since returned home. The second patient, a Ugandan doctor who was working in West Africa for an Italian aid organization, continues to receive treatment at a hospital in Frankfurt.
The St. Georg clinic in Leipzig, where the man who died was treated, announced his arrival last Thursday in a statement. At the time, doctors said his condition was critical, but stable, and there were no further updates on his status.
This is what I’ve tried to say for a long time but I couldn’t get the right words to make this point. Simply put, Republican Cuts Kill! That’s all there is to say, really!
This is not a joke folks!
From The Agenda Project: “Republican Cuts Kill,’ which was produced by the Agenda Project Action Fund, mixes disturbing footage of the Ebola outbreak—including images of body bags, hazmat suits, and corpses—with clips of Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Rand Paul, and Republicans in some of the most competitive races around the country demanding more spending cuts. The demand for cuts is juxtaposed against testimony from top CDC and NIH officials detailing how budget cuts substantially hampered their ability to address the crisis.”
If the sentiments expressed in this article in the New York Times today is any indication, then the Democrats are in deep trouble in the November Senate elections. President Obama still has his fans, but even people who voted for him are losing some faith that he can lead the country out of its present political torpor in the last two years of his term. His opponents, and at this point there are more than ever, are downright gleeful at the thought of having the GOP take both houses of Congress, though they do express frustration and anger at his failures.
RealClearPolitics is being a bit coy about it, but most of the recent polling gives the Republicans leads in the states they need to win to take control of the chamber. The same is true over at Electoral-Vote, except the Votemaster is not being coy at all and is saying at this point that the GOP will claim at least 52 seats after the elections. And even over at the Princeton Election Consortium the news for Democrats is not positive, with the prognostication currently calling for 51 Republicans come January.
Does this mean that it’s over? Not at all. Democrats famously under-perform in midterm election polling and there’s still a half-month to go before the votes are counted. President Obama has lent his also famous get-out-the-vote apparatus to the national party and most polling organizations make an assumption that the electorate in 2014 will look a lot like that of 2010. If that’s true, then the GOP will win. If not, and more of the Democrats’ constituents come out to vote, then there will be many surprises on election night.
The mood of the country will have a good deal to do with the outcome, and right now the Republicans have the upper hand. Of course, they are running on the fear of Ebola and ISIS, which they are convinced will both run through the United States over the next couple of weeks. It also doesn’t help that the seats the Democrats have to defend are in mostly red states.
If the Republicans win this year, then payback will most likely come during a more favorable cycle for Democrats in 2016. In the meantime, look for Congress to try to repeal the ACA, continue to investigate Benghazi, fortify the Mexican border against terrorists, and lower taxes on the wealthy.
You know, the real issues.
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A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has tested positive for ebola, the first case of ebola transmission in the United States.
The unidentified nurse had helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week from the virus after traveling to the Dallas area from Liberia. The patient reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was immediately isolated and tested in Austin; the positive results were received last night.
Officials said Sunday morning that the patient, who was in the low risk pool, had complied with all CDC guidelines. A hazmat team has been dispatched the health worker’s apartment; officials do not believe the patient’s pet poses any threat.
The reports say the man, who was not identified, was coughing during the flight to the Dominican Republic. Right before the plane landed, the passenger made the scary proclamation, causing widespread terror amongst the other passengers.
When the plane landed in Punta Cana, the passengers were checked at a medical facility for a fever, a main symptom of the deadly diaease. They all checked out and we’re eventually sent on their way.
Video taken in the plane shows workers in hazmat suits going through the aircraft. A man, believed to be the one who made the announcement, is seen being escorted off the plane, while saying “I ain’t from Africa!”
Bloomberg news is reportinh that Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died from the virus while in isolation at a Dallas hospital.
Duncan was diagnosed with the disease on Sept. 30 after contracting it in West Africa, where Ebola has infected about 7,500 people, killing half. He had come to the country to marry his girlfriend, Louise Troh, who is now being quarantined and has not yet shown symptoms of the disease.
“It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am,” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said in a statement today.
Duncan, who traveled to the U.S. from Liberia, developed a fever and stomach pains on Sept. 24, four days after arriving in the U.S. He was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital’s emergency room on Sept. 26, after doctors failed to diagnose him with Ebola.
He was brought back to the hospital in an ambulance two days later.
The former Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican party explained his plan for ebola victims here in these United States – kill them all!
The Republican took to twitter over the weekend and tweeted a bunch of hateful messages for all to see, explaining that your punishment for contracting the disease should be capital punishment.
“People with Ebola in the US need to be humanely put down immediately,” Todd Kincannon said.
The Republican’s venom continued to be unleashed: “The protocol for a positive Ebola test should be immediate execution and sanitation of the whole area. That will save lives,” he said in another tweet. Then he blamed the spread of Ebola on the people of Africa for: “Eating each other.”
When someone pointed out that not all ebola victims die, and asked if he would also kill the NBC cameraman being treated for the disease, the pro-life Republican answered, “with zero hesitation. ”
