Although he has no place to call his home, Frenchman Jacques Sayagh maintains a body many would envy. In a YouTube video uploaded last week that has already gone viral, the 50 year old Jacques explained his motivation.
“I have grandchildren,” he said. “I don’t want them to think that their grandfather is an asshole. I want them to be proud of me, that’s all I want.”
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent heart surgery Wednesday morning in Washington, the high court said.
The 81-year-old was admitted to the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center after she experienced discomfort during routine exercise on Tuesday night. She underwent a coronary catherization procedure and is now reportedly resting comfortably in the hospital. According to the Supreme Court, she is expected to be discharged within the next 48 hours.
For the past few years, Ginsburg has been working out with a personal trainer at the Supreme Court’s official gym, and a court official said that’s where she was last night when she experienced the discomfort.
Ginsburg, who is currently the oldest justice on the Supreme Court, has repeatedly resisted calls from progressives to consider stepping down so President Obama can nominate a like-minded judge to replace her. Ginsburg, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed to the court nearly unanimously in 1993, has been the most stalwart representative of liberal positions on the hot-button issues the Supreme Court has faced.
The 26 year old man of Indian descent was recently infected with the Ebola disease in Liberia, but was treated ‘cured’ and released on September 30th after he was given a clean bill of health. He traveled to New Delhi on November 10th showing no physical signs of the disease but was stopped and checked at the airport. After his semen tested positive, he was immediately isolated.
Not sure how the fluids were collected.
Health officials in India released a statement saying, “currently, this person is not having any symptoms of the disease. However, he would be kept under isolation in the special health facility of (the) Delhi Airport Health Organization, till such time his body fluids test negative and he is found medically fit to be discharged.”
Still not sure how the fluids are being collected.
A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone received aggressive treatment at a Nebraska hospital over the weekend but died Monday morning.
Dr. Martin Salia’s death is a reminder of how deadly the Ebola virus is and how important it is to receive treatment early, said Dr. Jeff Gold, chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
“In the very advanced stages, even the modern techniques we have at our disposal are not enough to help these patients once they reach a critical threshold,” Gold said at a news conference.
Salia, 44, was diagnosed with the virus Nov. 6. By the time he arrived at the Omaha hospital on Saturday, he was in extremely critical condition with no kidney function and severe respiratory problems.
He was placed on kidney dialysis and a ventilator, and was given several medications to support his organ systems, the hospital said in a statement. He was given the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp on Saturday and received a plasma transfusion from an Ebola survivor – a treatment that is believed to provide antibodies to fight the virus.
“We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia every possible opportunity for survival,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit. “As we have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential. In Dr. Salia’s case, his disease was already extremely advanced by the time he came here for treatment.”
Two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated at the Omaha hospital. Of 10 people to be treated for the disease in the United States, all but two have recovered. Thomas Eric Duncan, of Liberia, died at a Dallas hospital in October.
Salia was on day 13 of his illness when he arrived in Omaha, Smith said. The hospital’s two surviving Ebola patients arrived on day six and day eight of their illnesses.
Salia’s wife, Isatu Salia, said Monday that she and her family were grateful for the efforts made by her husband’s medical team.
His name is John David Glaud, and his weight loss journey is detailed on his YouTube channel. John went from 360lbs down to 200lbs, a tremendous accomplishment, but according to John, removing his clothes now creates some uncomfort.
“I’m comfortable clothed. I’m not that comfortable unclothed.”
See why.
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The Dallas hospital that sent Eric Duncan home when he tried getting help from his Ebola symptoms, has reached a settlement with Duncan’s family, according to the family’s lawyer.
According to their attorneys, a resolution has been “reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities.” The resolution includes a financial settlement and a charitable contribution. No further monetary details were disclosed.
Duncan returned from his native Liberia to Texas on September 20 and came to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 5 days later complaining of stomach pains, dizziness, nausea and headaches. He had a temperature of 103 degrees.
During Duncan’s five hour stay, he informed health workers that he had recently been to Liberia, but the attending physician was not told. Duncan was released from the hospital later that day only to return September 30 in an ambulance — officially the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with Ebola.
The hospital would later receive a lot of criticism on their initial decision to send him home. Although two nurses at the hospital were later infected, Duncan was the only one to die of the disease.
With his release from Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the United States is currently Ebola free! Dr. Craig Spencer spent 19 days at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, and he is now cured from the disease.
Republicans who used the disease as a fear mechanism to win control of Congress must now look for another way to keep their base afraid!
In a press conference this morning, New York’s mayor Bill DeBlasio thanked the doctor for his tremendous sacrifice and his willingness to put his life in danger to treat the disease at its source. Mr. DeBlasio said that we thank our military when they put their uniform on to protect us, so we should do the same when doctors put on a different uniform to fight diseases at the source, ultimately helping the US.
I said throughout this crisis we honor our men and women in uniform when they go overseas to protect us, Doctor Spencer was wearing a different uniform with the same exact mission – to help people everywhere and to protect people here.
The mayor also asked that the truth be told about Ebola, a clear hit at Republicans and the entire crew at Fox News.
Let’s just spread truth and honest information about Ebola. Let’s get rid of the misinformation. Let’s spread the truth that this is a very hard disease to contact [SIC].
For his part, the 33 year old doctor spoke about the importance of following the protocol for controlling Ebola, and he credits that protocol for his survival. Doctor Spencer also spoke about his 5 weeks working in West Africa.
“During this time, I cried as I held children who were not strong enough to survive the virus,” he said. “But I also experienced immense joy when patients I treated were cured, and invited me into their family as a brother upon discharge.”
He went on to say that when he was diagnosed with Ebola, “many of these same patients called my personal cell phone from Guinea to wish me well and ask if there was anyway that they could contribute to my care.”
The doctor then urged all to remember the doctors and nurses in Guinea, who watch their friends and families die from Ebola as they do all they can to treat other Ebola victims in their communities. “They are the true heroes that we are not talking about,” the Doctor said.
She returned from West Africa 21 days ago where she treated Ebola victims, but when she landed on U.S soil, Kaci Hickox was greeted with a tent with no heat or plumbing where she was expected to stay for 21 days, compliments of Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo.
Kaci loudly opposed her inhumane and unnecessary isolation, even writing articles about her isolation. After telling the world about her tent accommodations, Kaci was allowed to travel to her home in Maryland where she remained monitored and under surveillance.
On Tuesday, Hickox will no longer require daily monitoring for Ebola symptoms, and said she looks forward to stepping out her front door “like normal people.”
But the Texas native said she won’t back away from the debate over treatment of health care workers.
“In the past, a quarantine was something that was considered very extreme. I’m concerned about how lightly we’re taking this concept today,” said Hickox, who defied state-ordered quarantine attempts in New Jersey and Maine. “I’m concerned that the wrong people are leading the debate and making the decisions.”
She said the U.S. needs a public education campaign to better explain the virus that has killed nearly 5,000 in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. However, Hickox said she wouldn’t let her experience prevent her from returning to West Africa.
Last week Ebola was coming for you and the Obama administration and the Democrats were leading it straight to your doorstep. This week however, Ebola is no longer an issue worthy of our time or money and the funding the president requested to help fight the disease is pointless and unnecessary.
What changed? There was an election on Tuesday so Fox News and the Republican party needed to keep the American people scared in the hopes that they will vote Republicans into power. Well, it worked, so now, after the election, Fox is now downplaying the Ebola threat.
Before the November 4th midterm elections, Ebola and ISIS practically shared office space in the Fox News building. The two issues were talked about so much by Fox News hosts, that they could have collected a paycheck from Rupert Murdoch. After the November 4th midterm election, however, where fear of Ebola and ISIS caused the American people to vote Republicans in control of the U.S Congress, President Obama made a request to House Speaker John Boehner asking for more money to help fight the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Fox News is now asking if the Ebola crisis is “worthy of all theat money being shipped overseas!”
Fox’s Peter Johnson, Jr.: Is The Ebola Crisis “Worthy Of All That Money Being Shipped Overseas?” During the November 7 episode of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Fox contributor Peter Johnson, Jr. hosted an interview with Betsy McCaughey in which they criticized President Obama’s request for emergency funds to fight Ebola:
JOHNSON: President Obama asking congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to help fight Ebola in West Africa. But is this crisis worthy of all that money being shipped overseas? Would it be better spent on deadly diseases threatening Americans right here at home right now?
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MCCAUGHEY: It’s totally out of proportion, Peter. Five thousand people have died from Ebola. No Americans. Three hundred and sixty thousand Americans die from cancer every year. The president wants to spend a hundred times as much, per Ebola victim, as per cancer victim. That tells you what’s going on here. [Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends.
Republicans used the so-called “Ebola Outbreak”to create all sorts of scare scenarios trying to convince the American people that we should be scared, we should be afraid because President Obama and the Democrats were asleep at the wheel. Ads popped up all over the country warning Americans that if we did not vote for Republicans, then Ebola or ISIS, or Ebola and ISIS were going to snatch us out of bed and infect, then behead us all.
And of course, in the “Home of the Brave,” scared Americans believed the tall tales of the Republican party and voted them into power.
Well, according to NBC News, the so-called “Ebola Outbreak” in Texas is over!
As of midnight Friday, it was 21 days since anyone got Ebola or was in contact with someone who got Ebola.
“God willing, we are going to be Ebola-free Friday midnight,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, the elected official who oversaw the county’s response to its three-person outbreak, before the deadline passed.
It started when Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian citizen planning to settle in the United States, became sick and was at first mistakenly sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. He returned two days later by ambulance and was diagnosed with Ebola.
Officials had to track as many as 50 people who may have been in contact with Duncan. But the real scare came when two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, became infected while caring for him. Vinson had traveled to Ohio to make wedding plans and, even though she wasn’t diagnosed until she came back to Dallas, her travels set off waves of anxiety.
But don’t worry Americans, although reports say that ISIS is retreating, they’re still around… somewhere. So Be afraid! Be very afraid!
In spite of all the scare-tactics by the Republicans and the misleading stories in the news media, a majority of Americans approve of the president’s handling of the so-called “Ebola Outbreak.”
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans approve of Obama’s handling of the situation, 49 percent to 41 percent. His approval rating is up eight points from just two weeks ago, mostly thanks to people moving from “undecided” column into the more favorable one.
Obama still doesn’t have majority support on the issue, but it’s his highest approval rating on any given issue since he hit 50 percent on combating the Islamic State last month. Prior to that, he hadn’t hit 50 percent — or even 49 percent — on an issue since January.
