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发信人: tomnjerry (tom jerry), 信区: Military
标 题: 达拉斯护士真可怜：两天没protective gear
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 16 01:23:44 2014, 美东)
Report: Texas Ebola Nurses Had No Protective Gear For Two Days
Hospital workers were intensively exposed to the first U.S. Ebola patient
without wearing protective gear for two days, according to The Dallas
Morning News.
Between Sept. 28 and Sept. 30, medical professionals treating Thomas Duncan
wore only gowns and scrubs in the interim. Duncan was suffering from
projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea from Sept. 28 on, but hospital
workers weren’t provided with extensive protective gear, such as hazmat
suits, until Sept. 30, according to the Associated Press.
The revelation makes the infection of two nurses at the hospital, Nina Pham
and Amber Vinson, much less surprising. Frieden confirmed Wednesday that
both nurses were treating Duncan during those three days and called them the
“highest risk period” for spreading the disease.
Even after Duncan was diagnosed, health care workers exposed to the patients
, including Vinson, were only self-monitoring for signs or symptoms of Ebola
. At least 76 hospital workers were exposed to Duncan before he died.
And in the latest mishap, Vinson traveled to Cleveland on October 8 and
returned to Dallas Monday evening, just one day before being diagnosed with
Ebola herself.
Vinson had a slight fever of 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit while on the return
flight, according to Frieden, but didn’t meet the standard 100.4 degree
fever that the CDC considers a warning sign for Ebola.
Although she exhibited no symptoms other than a slight fever, by the time
Vinson was to fly home, it was clear that she had been exposed to Ebola and
she “should not have traveled and should not have been allowed to travel”
by public transportation, such as a commercial airplane,” Frieden admitted
Wednesday.
“We will, from this moment forward, ensure that no other individual being
monitored for exposure travels” other than through controlled movements,
such as a car or a chartered flight that limits exposure, Frieden promised.
Frieden and Health and Human Services secretary Burwell said it’s very
unlikely that Vinson spread the virus on the plane, but the CDC is
attempting to contact all passengers and crew for interviewing.
Both Texas Presbyterian and the CDC have come under fire for their slow
response. Burwell admitted Wednesday that the federal government could have
provided “much better oversight” of the hospital, echoing Frieden’s
admission earlier this week that the CDC should have sent in more experts,
more quickly.
Pham, the first nurse infected, will remain in Dallas to be treated for the
time being, but Vinson, the second nurse infected, will be transferred to
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. |
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