Tag: Ebola
MTV star questions bowling Ebola-positive doc with snarky Obama reference
Yep. Twitchy readers know the latest Ebola news: A doctor in NYC has tested positive for Ebola. He felt “sluggish” a couple of days ago, yet still roamed about the city, riding on public transportation and hitting up a (now closed) bowling alley.
Many, including Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and Julie Banderas, S.E. Cupp and Bravo star Caroline Manzo, have questioned the, you know, logic of doing such things when one knows one has been exposed to Ebola.
MTV star Chet Cannon also questioned the moves, but with a hilarious Obama reference:
O-Bam! We see what you did there and it’s beautiful.
Yep. Heck of a job, Barry.
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Rick Perry: Children monitored after possible contact with Ebola patient
A man in Texas who has been diagnosed with Ebola had been in the country for several days before being hospitalized and quarantined.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry held a press conference today and said that school children are being monitored after having been near the Ebola patient:
Breaking: Gov. Rick Perry says "some school age children had contact" with the #Ebola patient in Dallas. #khou pic.twitter.com/XeuOmPnCTA
— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) October 1, 2014
TX Gov. Perry: Some school-aged children have been in contact with #Ebola patient http://t.co/FbQhOGVto6 @NewsHour pic.twitter.com/mHJbifx7nk
— Joshua Barajas (@Josh_Barrage) October 1, 2014
Gov. Rick Perry says some school-age children had contact with Ebola patient and are being monitored for the disease. pic.twitter.com/ouKZ27LtTB
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 1, 2014
Texas Gov. Perry says school-aged children had contact with #Ebola patient; they’ve been identified & being monitored http://t.co/FnYmXmj0Ar
— FOX59 News (@FOX59) October 1, 2014
Not good :(. Gov Perry announcing acc to CNN Ebola patient in contact with school aged children.And hospital didn't inquire about his travel
— C Foote (@technolibrary) October 1, 2014
Rick Perry is on TV to tell us that school age children have been exposed to Ebola. But not to panic!
— Trisha Lemons (@trishmunky) October 1, 2014
Updates:
Patient had contact with five children who attend four different Dallas-area schools, per school official. #Ebola
— Elise Viebeck (@eliseviebeck) October 1, 2014
A few parents at Sam Tasby Middle School have picked up students– #DHHS says student may have been exposed to #Ebola pic.twitter.com/4j02P79gyl
— Sebastian Robertson (@wfaasebastian) October 1, 2014
#Dallas #HHD says student at LL Hotchkiss Elementary may have come in contact with #Ebola — parents picking up #wfaa pic.twitter.com/f7dxwiMBHm
— Sebastian Robertson (@wfaasebastian) October 1, 2014
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Hospital backtracks, today acknowledges it understood Ebola patient’s travel history
Incompetent is somewhat great nowadays. Since it happens that medical practioners at the Texas health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas did understand that Ebola consumer Thomas Eric Duncan had traveled to Liberia provided that they delivered him residence on September 26, pressing a health center to “retract” its earlier assertion that a glitch featuring its electronic wellness papers system would be to blame:
Dallas medical center retracts information for missed #Ebola analysis; client today vital: http://t.co/w5rttVdFfn pic.twitter.com/Gv3rfUGkSI
— Yahoo (@Yahoo) October 4, 2014
Late Friday – one day after releasing the considerable things in “in the eye of transparency” – a medical care center reversed part of its account. Unlike before, they reported Duncan’s getaway record was visually noticeable to all-in the hospital’s electric wellness record (EHR) system.
“There ended up being no flaw inside EHR in the way the doctor and health portions interacted regarding this celebration,” a wellness center advertised in a written statement.
But by Saturday mid-day, extremely bit various other information with regards to means comes. Electronic mails towards medical center with specific dilemmas from Yahoo Information haven’t been came back for all times.
A lot more from Time:
Dallas Hospital Alters Tale on Ebola Case http://t.co/P8Ad3jSd49
— Jyoti Zaveri (@JJZaveri) October 5, 2014
Oh, it gets far worse: america just isn’t prepared for Ebola:
Professionals warn the united states really ready purpose #Ebola A deep scuba per @LuisTrib @asmeltz http://t.co/Qg6IybSbHy pic.twitter.com/HWP1sVxkNc
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) October 5, 2014
The professional cited because Tribune piece guarantees it’s time for vacation limitations on nations experiencing Ebola:
“Unless the earth health business and solutions for illness Control and protection take sincere about activities to avoid the universal scatter of problem, we are able perhaps get a pandemic,” reported Phenelle Segal, president of Montgomery County-based disease Control asking solutions and a classic illness avoidance analyst in terms of Pennsylvania particular defense Authority.
“i think if we started witnessing western Africa venture out control with Ebola, that has been the time” to stop routes through location, stated Segal, just who helps exclusions for relief employees and aid missions.
That method may be the easiest option to contain the outbreak stopping a globally crisis, Segal claimed. Federal and intercontinental health officials argue split would influence even more economic anxiety in western Africa while undercutting humanitarian help, worsening the epidemic the temporary and cultivating a better globally danger essentially.
“The simplest way.”
And Republican Dan Bongino, possibility for Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, sums up precisely what he — and many more — think should take place afterwards:
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/518571383312646144
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MacCallum: School canceled at sign of ‘1st snowflake’ but not for Ebola?
A man from Liberia remains hospitalized with Ebola in Dallas, Texas, the people in an apartment where he had been staying are being quarantined (kind of), and about 100 people who had contact with the infected man are being monitored.
What about area schools? Martha MacCallum had a priorities question:
Explain to me why we cancel school at the 1st snowflake, but not for #Ebola ? Who loses if the Texas school takes a few days off?
— martha maccallum (@marthamaccallum) October 3, 2014
Are authorities simply not taking the threat seriously enough?
@marthamaccallum Snow does not transform America. . . when will media get it?
— Sarah Moore (@LooneyTunes002) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum That would be admitting we got a potentially BIG problem. Allot of citizen may die of Ebola cause by PoliticalCorrectness
— Daniel Foynes (@DanielFoynes) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum I don't buy Dr Frieden analysis. CDC doesn't know as much as they think about it. He spins as a politician and is guessing
— Kevin Northcutt (@northcutt2013) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum people need to do what is best for their child and not what is best for the schools funding..
— Barbara Carr (@BeYourselfBarb) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum Parents should not send their kids to school. None!
— molcuta (@molcuta) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum so true . I live here at ground zero and Martha , people are really scared to send their little ones to school.
— Ed Butowsky (@EdButowsky) October 3, 2014
Ebola concerns may not have prompted area school closings, but weather has:
@marthamaccallum Agree! Some Dallas schools are closed today do to power outages,blessing in disquise.Too many ppl downplaying Ebola risk
— brandi (@itsjustboo) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum @JaniceDean says lots of Dallas schools closed bcuz storms. Maybe God closed the schools bcuz the superintendent wouldn't?
— Exozone (@Exozone) October 3, 2014
@marthamaccallum mother nature did just that. Dallas ISD closed today. Power outage from big storms yesterday
— Randy Maxwell (@Maxhawk4) October 3, 2014
41 Dallas ISD schools are without power this morning…here is the list http://t.co/iCZDIkcTV4 http://t.co/zL4tgSlfkx
— Tempestt Moore (@tcmoore26) October 3, 2014
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‘When Ebola comes to my city’: Americans’ Ebola strategies [pics]
It can seem callous but humor is the great American defense mechanism. There’s probably some complicated psychological explanation but a lot of people cope with stress and fear by laughing at what they’re afraid of. Clearly Ebola is on people’s minds. In the age of social media, the reaction plays out with memes and pop culture references.
When your homie start coughing and you think he got ebola pic.twitter.com/A2BUNqZTBe
— CARLOSNEXTDOOR (@DreamVillainous) October 2, 2014
when Ebola spreads to U.S and your homeboy starts coughing pic.twitter.com/aKGa6UaecK
— GOAT (@blvckpapii) October 2, 2014
as soon as i heard Ebola hit the U.S. pic.twitter.com/fSqURFPJCI
— hayden (@yruhayden) October 2, 2014
When you the only person in the culdesac without ebola pic.twitter.com/VtW5KJRoLa
— YA BOY GERALD (@AyGeraldJay) October 2, 2014
If Ebola ever hits my city pic.twitter.com/9hnc8EXwq5
— (@Dory) October 2, 2014
My new grocery store outfit #ebola pic.twitter.com/N79gg3qEeC
— Right Scoop (@trscoop) September 30, 2014
Bae: Come over Me: Sorry I have Ebola :( Bae: I'm home alone… Me: pic.twitter.com/AjMLQjxqBL
— Machiavelli (@SaltyVince) October 2, 2014
when Ebola comes to my city pic.twitter.com/mBy17muROt
— Blake Henderson (@WorkaholicBlake) October 2, 2014
Me when Ebola takes over my city pic.twitter.com/npDsS1b5DR
— OhSkee (@CartelDelAfrica) October 2, 2014
Akon crowd-surfed in a plastic bubble to protect himself from getting Ebola… pic.twitter.com/G2xpqIv1Yf
— Conor Lynn (@_ConorLynn) October 2, 2014
when there's an ebola breakout but you wanna look fresh as hell #ContagiousChic pic.twitter.com/FMVNZEmpxq
— Ebola Fashion (@EbolaFashion) October 2, 2014
me whenever Ebola comes to my city pic.twitter.com/NgSKMsS7C9
— PARKER (@ParkerKitHill) October 2, 2014
when ebola is spreading but you still gotta look fly pic.twitter.com/hS2zMtHEn9
— Ebola (@EboIaTheVirus) October 2, 2014
when your whole squad's ebola outbreak outfits are on point pic.twitter.com/vKJUcdj54C
— Ebola Fashion (@EbolaFashion) October 2, 2014
Nurse: where'd the Ebola patient go? Hospital guard: pic.twitter.com/hd1oy5MHkL
— Simba (@Maccoul_) October 2, 2014
when you the only person in the village without Ebola pic.twitter.com/SktUBmG0uP
— Simba (@Maccoul_) October 2, 2014
Editor’s note: This post was updated to include additional tweets.
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This afternoon, officials held a press conference on Ebola at the White House. It was about as reassuring as you’d expect from any White House presser. Which is to say, not really very reassuring at all:
WH Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco says US using "whole govt response" to control Ebola epidemic at its source. pic.twitter.com/sXaRT9kZnx
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
Whole government? Oh, thank goodness!
At WH briefing on Ebola, HHS Secy Burwell says US has the health care system "to contain this disease." pic.twitter.com/hSpLtJJ2Fd
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
Is that so?
MT @markknoller WH briefing on Ebola, HHS Secy Burwell says US has the health care system "to contain this disease." https://t.co/MwSYvFH5do
— S.M (@redsteeze) October 3, 2014
Flawed software, not human error, caused missed Ebola diagnosis, Dallas hospital says http://t.co/TZuQRIIHXv pic.twitter.com/FRt0OLqedJ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2014
Lovely.
US health care infrastructure "well-equipped to stop Ebola in its tracks," says Dr. Anthony Fauci of NIH. pic.twitter.com/ZchaGV3xKc
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
He must be referring to that “robust government-sponsored health care system” ThinkProgress was so excited about.
Right now, officials say screening for Ebola patients most effective in the source countries in West Africa, than on arrival in US.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
Fauci says US has "well-established" facilities to handle and respond to cases of Ebola. "Our structure would preclude an outbreak."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
Monaco tells @MajorCBS that screening air travelers in West Africa are effective in stopping Ebola passengers from leaving.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
Fauci goes even further: says US health care system “would make it extraordinarily unlikely that we would have an outbreak" in the US.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014
So, who feels better now?
The US has the ability to contain Ebola, but can't build a website that doesn't crash. Gotcha.
— Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014
Sorry if I don't have faith in the govt to contain ebola. Maybe the pessimism stems from how much they screw everything else up. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014
ISIS is a JV squad. You can keep your plan if you like it. Detroit is thriving. We should totes believe that govt has ebola under control.
— Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014
Can you imagine if Kathleen "404 Care" Sebelius were up there saying, "no worries, we got this"?
— DrewMTips (@DrewMTips) October 3, 2014
Look, our protocols failed the first time they were tested but we got this guys
— DrewMTips (@DrewMTips) October 3, 2014
Suuuuuuuure they do:
BREAKING: Photo from the White House briefing on #Ebola: pic.twitter.com/zeMiPihRbt
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 3, 2014
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
Nurse diagnosed with Ebola named; Reporter asks her to call
The nurse who has contracted Ebola while helping provide care for Thomas Duncan, the Liberian man who died from the virus in Dallas, has been named:
#BREAKING: Nina Pham, 26, is the nurse being treated for #Ebola. This image is provided by her family. pic.twitter.com/qzlYDrMSvx
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 13, 2014
Nina Pham's family provided that picture to WFAA and confirmed that she is the 2nd #Ebola patient in the city.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 13, 2014
A Los Angeles Times reporter tried to get in touch with the nurse not long after her name was released to the public:
@Nina_Pham hoping to reach you please call 213-265-8572
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) October 12, 2014
Requests were made to give Pham a break:
@mollyhf @Nina_Pham You must be kidding. Poor girl is sick and in hospital. Leave her alone
— Conway (@wpxstar) October 13, 2014
@wpxstar @mollyhf @Nina_Pham couldn't agree more. This is disgusting.
— Kyle Redmond (@osubuck2121) October 13, 2014