<p>Maybe he wanted to make a spectacle of himself as some sort of public statement. Law enforcement is pretty annoyed about being ordered to go in there in the first place. A theory.</p>
<p>A “ginger” is someone with red hair who more often than not will have Irish or Scots Irish heritage. No . . . black and ginger have nothing to do with it but according to the geographic distribution of blood types their countries of origin or heritage does.</p>
<p>According to the maps people in West Africa and not coincidentally African Americans are more likely to have type B blood than many other groups.</p>
<p>Not fair to all the folks in that care center which had nothing to do with any of that.</p>
<p>His son seemed rather embarrassed about it and stated that he was pretty confident it was nothing, but of course supported his Dad in wanting to be sure.</p>
<p>“Actually, I think at this point I would call the CDC and/or my doctor’s office–assuming I had a doctor–and let them put something together without leaving the house. But I would also make arrangements to have my dog taken care of first, because no way would I let them kill her for no reason.”</p>
<p>I would think anyone with some functioning brain cells would contact the CDC or even their local county health departments if they had been in a situation like the deputy. But there have been several cases already in NYC where people who have recently been in West Africa and have gone to hospital ER. They have been immediately put in isolation and tested. So far no one has tested positive for Ebola, but at least the hospitals don’t seem to be having a problem following protocol. </p>
<p>Is it more dumb to have been in Duncan’s apartment and get an upset stomach and think that you’d better get checked out (abundance of caution and all) or to have lived in Ebola central and spend the night carry and riding around in a cab with a woman who is feverish, having abdominal pain, convulsing and bleeding from the mouth and not even suspect that you might have been exposed to Ebola? How about when you start running a temp? If you know that you spent such a night and that the woman died several hours later, when you start running a temp and having abdominal pain who is more “dumb” . . . you for not telling the ER staff that you had been exposed to Ebola or the ER staff for not guessing as much when they are in Dallas and not Liberia?</p>
<p>On another note . . . I am certainly willing to be corrected by those in the medical field but my impression was that a blood transfusion is a fairly routine thing and not considered to be an expensive, extraordinary measure relative to the rest of the care he received. It seems ludicrous to suggest that the care team wouldn’t do it if it was feasible. I don’t know but it wouldn’t surprise me if he had regular transfusions to try to prevent shock. I mean don’t they give transfusions to gangster gun shot victims in ER even though they are not likely to be compensated and likely to be hauled off to jail when they recover?</p>
<p>I think he went to the closest place he could get checked out.
Experts already told these deputies that they were not at risk when they were sent in, but by the way, surrender your clothes & shoes and let’s decontaminate your patrol cars anyway. So that’s a bunch of mixed messages right there.
Then the clinic asks him the West Africa question and he probably answers “now that you mention it …” and the next thing he knows it’s DefCon 1.</p>
<p>I would say they are equally dumb but the deputy knew for certain he was in Dallas Ebola guy’s apartment and we don’t know for certain Dallas Ebola guy knew he was exposed from pregnant lady. At least he went to a hospital and told them he was from Liberia and didn’t go to a Doc in the Box. It wasn’t due to his stupidity he got sent home from the ER. And I still cannot fathom how bells didn’t go off for the triage nurse when he mentioned he was visiting from Liberia. It’s not like we haven’t been hearing about Ebola for months now and how others who had been in West Africa were going to ER’s to be checked when they didn’t feel well. </p>
<p>Wondering if the treating physicians could invoke some aspect of the “Good Samaritan” law as a defense in any lawsuit. I know at least half the states in the U.S. give some level of protection to physicians treating in an ER or in emergency situations. Not sure about nurses. But the GS law does lower the standard to “generally accepted” practices. Not sure what Texas law is in this regard.</p>
<p>Since ebola is a “hemorrhagic fever,” it is possible that he was bleeding internally and he received packed cells and other blood products in an attempt to maintain his blood volume. Obviously I don’t know for sure what he actually received.</p>
<p>As to why he didn’t receive donor blood products from recovered individuals, from the statement above:</p>
<p>Thanks for the update Nrdsb4. So he likely received the “blood product” that might help and was standardly available for all recipients but not the “blood product” that was specialized from the recovering donor because he was not a match. Give that, I don’t get how this is even an issue.</p>
<p>He had 50 caregivers taking care of him. Compared to him, we are all getting substandard care when hospitalized. I think it is us who should sue hospitals.</p>
<p>“He had 50 caregivers taking care of him. Compared to him, we are all getting substandard care when hospitalized. I think it is us who should sue hospitals.”</p>
<p>I’m sure if you get Ebola you will get as good if not better care in the hospital. </p>
<p>If I didn’t, I doubt I’d sue anyone as far as I got adequate care. Duncan got more than adequate care. It will be good if they grieve the loss more graciously.</p>