Friday, October 17, 2014

Six Reasons To Panic


Good essay:
...How robust is transmission? Look at the health care workers who have contracted it. When Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who was part of the team caring for Liberian national Thomas Duncan, contracted Ebola, the CDC quickly blamed her for “breaching protocol.” But to the extent that we have effective protocols for shielding people from Ebola, they’re so complex that even trained professionals, who are keenly aware that their lives are on the line, can make mistakes.

By the by, that Science article written by 58 medical professionals tracing the emergence of Ebola—5 of them died from Ebola before it was published....
Read the rest HERE. Worth your time.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was an incredibly sobering essay. Thanks for posting.

Perhaps you would consider pairing this essay with Whittle's Ebola video in a repeat thread again on Sunday when surviving contacts of Thomas Eric Duncan's 21-day incubation period ends Oct. 19.

Anonymous said...

Bwa ha ha! Who chose that graphic?!
Hysterical!

Pastorius said...

Me.

It's from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Pastorius said...

Another person left a comment here Anonymously. I rec'd it in email, but it is no longer posted. I did not erase it. I don't know what happened to it.

Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the "levity".