Second nurse with Ebola should not have traveled by plane, CDC says

[FormerOstrich]

Source: MSN News

DALLAS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the virus had traveled by plane a day before she reported symptoms, U.S. health and airline officials said on Wednesday, adding that she should not have been on a commercial flight.

The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had taken a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Monday, the officials said.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/second-nurse-with-ebola-should-not-have-traveled-by-plane-cdc-says/ar-BB9f6bs

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Geez.........words fail me!

[In_The_Wind]

1. Well, duh!

[Delphinus]

3. Took

the words right out of my mouth.

[In_The_Wind]

4. ...

thanks for the earworm

[mainstreetonce]

2. So if they quarantine people

why don't they monitor that?

[LisaL]

7. Apparenlty, when you are on quarantine for Ebola, you can fly all over the country.

With fever, no less.
Who knew?

[bermudat]

17. Or if you are Nancy Snyderman, leave home for take-0ut

[LisaL]

18. At least Nancy doesn't actually have Ebola.

[LisaL]

5. And she had a fever when she flew.

Which means she was not asymptomatic.
Which means she could have been infectious already.

[FormerOstrich]

6. When did she fly to Ohio?

btw...this post is a dup....I swear I looked before posting. I don't know how I missed it. My apologies mods.

She was exposed in Texas. She must have flown to Ohio recently and then returned on Monday.

[LisaL]

8. Either on the 8th or the 10th.

She flew back on Monday, while already symptomatic (with fever).

[City Lights]

11. Article says her visit began on the 8th.

Dr. Mary DiOrio, interim chief of the Ohio Department of Health's Division of Prevention and Health Promotion, told reporters Vinson visited family in Akron from Oct. 8 to Oct. 13 before she flew to Dallas on Frontier.

[Mike Daniels]

9. Voluntary quarantine doesn't seem to be working

Not sure how you enforce mandatory quarantines on over 70 people (just factoring the Dallas group) though without overtaxing your police departments.

[heaven05]

10. drip, drip, drip

[Renew Deal]

15. Yup

[bigworld]

12. We seem to have the capability to deal with Ebola

But people being stupid and incompetent keep interfering with that capability.

Thanks, Amber, you potentially infected a thousand people!

[LisaL]

20. Unfortunately, that's human nature.

So if CDC/authorities expected everybody be compliant, they were not living in the real world.
Do they know where other 72 people are?

[OKNancy]

13. FYI - they changed the headline on this

[LisaL]

14. Yes. It's not clear if CDC actually told them not to fly.

Isn't quarantine fun?
You can do whatever you want, apparent.y.

[Yo_Mama]

16. CDC did not. They were on self-monitoring protocol.

If you don't take people and isolate them, this is what will happen every goddamned time. It was a long weekend.

[Shemp Howard]

19. Why wasn't she on the "Do Not Fly" list?

It seems to me that it would've taken the CDC ten seconds to enter her name on the Do Not Fly list. Then she would have been stopped before she boarded the plane in the first place.

I know the CDC is very busy at this point in time, but isn't anyone there thinking ahead, even a little?

[asiliveandbreathe]

21. Am I missing something here

I know nurses are not brain dead...why on earth would she fly - oh, because the CDC and hospital didn't DISCUSS it or tell her she shouldn't.. - ARE YOU KIDDING ME!

AFTER caring for a patient with the virus...I think I want to get off the world now...