President Barack Obama is now ordering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to deploy medical “SWAT teams” within 24 hours to any hospital reporting a new case of Ebola.
The move comes after revelations the CDC may have been too lax in its procedures, allowing a nurse who’d treated an infected patient to travel on an airplane.
“We are monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way exactly what’s taking place in Dallas initially and making sure that the lessons learned are then transmitted to hospitals and clinics all across the country,” the president said.
Amber Joy Vinson, the second Dallas nurse to catch Ebola, treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died at a Dallas hospital last week. She then flew to Cleveland to visit family and back to Dallas before she knew she had the disease.
Vinson contacted the CDC about her travel plans beforehand. The agency admits it was a mistake to give her permission to fly with a heightened temperature of more than 99 degrees.
Vinson is now in isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
“It’s making you wonder, you know, is it safe to even, you know, to get on any of these planes going anywhere?” air traveler Joyce Walton said.
The CDC says the risk to the 132 passengers is extremely low. Nevertheless, air travelers are still uneasy and the country is nervous… Read More
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