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Showing posts with label Pandemic. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
WHITE HOUSE ADMITS U.S. BORDER CRISIS--TO OPPOSE EBOLA TRAVEL BAN
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One of the best arguments against a travel ban against the African countries where Ebola has broken out is that it would be ineffective, given the porous U.S. borders. Someone determined to travel to the U.S. would find a way. Surprisingly, that is the argument trotted out by White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes to explain why there is no travel ban. Previously, the White House has touted its efforts toward border security.
"We believe a travel ban could actually endanger people more by driving them underground and having them seek ways to find ways into the United States that are outside the existing travel protocols," Rhodes told MSNBC on Monday.
That flies in the face of what Democrats and their media allies have insisted recently --namely, that there is no border crisis. It took the debate over an Ebola travel ban to bring out the truth.
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BEGINS TO CRACK ON EBOLA TRAVEL BAN
President Barack Obama’s administration is beginning to crack on travel restrictions from Ebola-stricken countries.
While not a full travel ban, the Department of Homeland Security has announced partial travel restrictions that will go into effect Wednesday morning.
“Today, as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s ongoing response to prevent the spread of Ebola to the United States, we are announcing travel restrictions in the form of additional screening and protective measures at our ports of entry for travelers from the three West African Ebola-affected countries,” DHS secretary Jeh Johnson said in a Tuesday morning statement. “These new measures will go into effect tomorrow.”
Johnson noted how last week, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DHS began “enhanced screening measures” at New York’s JFK airport, Newark airport, Washington Dulles airport, and at Atlanta’s and Chicago’s airports.
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US Tightens #Ebola Standards
‘No skin exposure’: US tightens guidance for #Ebola protective gear http://t.co/abWvsNoXXF pic.twitter.com/sz5ybUhPUb
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#Chicago names 4 hospitals Ready for Ebola
CHICAGO (Associated Press) -Four Chicago hospitals have agreed to take on the responsibility of caring for Ebola patients if the deadly virus emerges in the city.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office and the city's health department announced the four hospitals Monday, calling an Ebola diagnosis in the city "unlikely."
Rush University Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center would take adult and pediatric patients, Northwestern Memorial Hospital adult patients only and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital pediatric patients.
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Travel ban could stop Ebola virus from spreading: Obama critics
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By Bill Sanderson and Post Wires
Photo: Reuters
Banning travel from Ebola-stricken West African countries could keep the deadly virus from spreading in the United States, say critics of President Obama’s claim that such a ban would only make the outbreak worse.
Travel bans are already working in several African countries, said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, a professor at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
“There are no cases now” in the countries where bans are in effect, he noted.
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Ebola is 'disaster of our generation' says aid agency
By Alice RITCHIE
Oxfam, which works in the two worst-hit countries -- Liberia and Sierra Leone -- on Saturday called for more troops, funding and medical staff to be sent to tackle the west African epicentre of the epidemic.
Chief executive Mark Goldring warned that the world was "in the eye of a storm".
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Ebola Blunders by United Nitwits
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said Saturday that it wouldn't explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The Associated Press in which the U.N. health agency said it fumbled early attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
In the draft document, which wasn't released publicly, WHO blamed numerous factors for the now explosive Ebola epidemic, including incompetent staff, bureaucracy and a lack of reliable information.
"WHO will not do interviews or explain details on this document until it is completed," the health agency said in a statement Saturday. "WHO believes in transparency and accountability and will release this review when it is fact-checked."
So far, Ebola has been blamed for 4,546 deaths in West Africa out of at least 9,191 cases. WHO estimated that there could be 10,000 cases every week by December unless stronger measures are enacted to fight the outbreak.
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Ebola Plague Spreads to OHIO
AKRON, Ohio – Health officials in Ohio are monitoring more than 100 people following the visit by a Dallas nurse who tested positive for Ebola shortly after returning to Texas from the Cleveland area.
Officials said Saturday that none of those being monitored are sick.
State officials previously said 16 people Amber Vinson had contact with were being monitored. Officials say the sharp increase is a result of the identification of airline passengers who flew with Vinson between Dallas and Cleveland and the identification of people who also visited the dress shop where her bridesmaids were trying on dresses.
Vinson's stepfather is quarantined in his home in the Akron suburb of Tallmadge. That is where Vinson stayed during her visas.
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
OBAMA: NO TRAVEL BAN - YOU GET EBOLA!
In his weekly radio address for October 18, the President spoke to the mounting international Ebola crisis raging at home and abroad. While saying he had it all under control here in the US, Obama insisted that no travel bans were in the offing because he didn't want to "cut off" contact with West Africa.
Saying, "This is a serious disease," Obama urged Americans not to "give in to hysteria or fear." He went on to say, "that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information they need." He continued saying "we need to be guided by the science" and said that we must remember "the basic facts."
The president insisted that "what we're seeing now is not an 'outbreak' or an 'epidemic' of Ebola in America." With a nation of more than 300 million people, the president noted, we've only had three cases of the disease. "We have to keep this in perspective," he said.
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Ebola Virus Spreads as Defenses waver
EBOLA MONITORING INCONSISTENT AS VIRUS SPREAD
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DALLAS (AP) -- The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient. He quickly asked for the hospital's watch list to find out who else might be at risk.
Judge Clay Jenkins, who is overseeing the county's emergency response, was told there was no such list. Simply put, nurse Nina Pham and her co-workers, who were handing fluids, inserting IVs and cleaning Thomas Eric Duncan in his dying days, were supposed to take their own temperatures and let someone know if they felt sick.
That wasn't nearly enough for Jenkins, and that evening, he began to make changes. Hospital officials told potentially exposed hospital workers to stop seeing patients other than Pham.
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