Hummm...

     Good morning, Fam...  Here we are in a situation with this EBOLA.  Every other day you hear a little more than you heard 2 days ago, but you still don't know much at all.  "We will not have an EBOLA outbreak here in the United States.  EBOLA will not  spread in the United States.  We have taken every precaution.  You can only get infected by having contact with an infected person's skin or bodily fluids." What?!?

     There is a young nurse, Nina Pham, who was a caregiver for Thomas Duncan--the Liberian man who died from complications of EBOLA in Texas--who now has been diagnosised as having EBOLA.  I was totally upset and mad that the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Thomas Frieden, when he initally announced that this nurse and her "breach in protocol" was the reason why she contracted EBOLA.  Are you kidding me???  From the information I have read and heard in various reports, these caregivers are wearing what their institutions have required them to wear when caring for these patients--double-gloves, shoe covers, goggles, plastic face shields and waterproof gowns.  That protective covering "protocol" was prescribed by the CDC.  (Side note:  I do find it amazing that when the officials from US AIR flight 845 came on board of the flight where a man said he had EBOLA, they had on that head-to-toe HAZMAT outfit.  Hummm...).  I just wish the guessing games would stop and that the powers that be and the "experts" would STOP disclosing information that has not been officially investigated.  It just leads to more speculation and a bigger story that may in fact lead to unneccesary panic. 

      The New York Post stated that Dr. Dan Varga (chief medical officer) confirmed that Nina wore the CDC-prescribed protective outfit.  Thomas Frieden did come back a few days later to apologize for what he said about Nina Pham.  He also stated that her condition is stable.  I wonder if that means stable "good" or stable "bad"...  Hummm???  An Associated Press report states that Nina has received a blood transfusion with the blood from the Texas physician that survived the EBOLA virus.  The thought is that the antibodies from this man's blood could help fight the disease.  Let's pray that she survives.

     Currently, hospitals are being instructed to take travel histories from patients that show up with symptoms of the EBOLA virus.  As per the CDC, these patients should also be isolated especially those who have been to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea.  Frieden is also planning more hands on training in hospitals and outreach to health departments.  My next questions:   Are we preventing people from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea from entering the United States?  Are we at least screening them prior to their boarding planes bound for the United States?  Is that ethical or politcally correct?  Hummmm... I'm just asking...

SMOOCHES...