EBOLA MAIN EBOLA DISCUSSION THREAD 12/01/14 to 12/16/14

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http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-EBOLA-DISCUSSION-THREAD-11-16-14-to-11-30-14

O.K. everybody it looks like we're a tad late on the new thread. As many of you know the Ebola Czar Klain, in collusion with the MSM[main stream media], have squashed most news of the Ebola pandemic. So here we go...

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http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, December 2, 2014
A Reminder: The Seven Stages Of Ebola Reporting

1. What Ebola?
2. EBOLA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
3. Don't Worry, the Government has TOP. MEN. on the case.
4. The TOP. MEN. Are Idiots! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
5. Ebola is killing everyone handy in droves, but they're mostly "just Africans".
6. Continued Ebola Stories upset the editorial bias and the entrenched bureaucracy.
7. What Ebola?

Remember that governing paradigm as the stories on this outbreak wax and wane, while the number of infected and dead climbs inexorably, and right on track with any number of estimates.

There are only two or three pending milestones worthy of note:
1) Collapse of one or more of the three affected counties' governments;

2) Widespread outbreak outside the current 3 (or 4) affected countries;
(note that #1 leads inexorably to #2)
{nota bene that Mali is overripe for this, since their current mode is to assume that no one who dies or has died there anytime since September has Ebola until they're literally shitting their guts out, AND someone official deigns to take notice. Which worked out so well with Imam Ebola the Magnificent. :roll: }

3) Any cluster of multiple cases here (or elsewhere in the "first" world) >10 cases nearly simultaneously (because that's my ballpark guess on what would overwhelm anyone's management capability, unless they revert to the West African "no actual treatment" modality, in which case 80+% die) because that's the point when the previous rosy outlook all goes to shit, and reality probably starts to kick in at the level of the average person on the street.

Any one of those takes this up another DefCon level IMHO.
The rest is merely the outbreak continuing to chew its way to one of those eventualities.

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http://www.naturalnews.com/047888_ebola_pandemic_treatment_centers_cdc.html


CDC prepares for imminent Ebola wave with designation of 35 US hospitals as Ebola treatment centers
Friday, December 05, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes

(NaturalNews) U.S. health officials may be preparing for a new wave of Ebola patients in the country after designating 35 American hospitals as treatment centers.

In a press release, the Department of Health and Human Services said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that some state officials have identified the hospitals as Ebola treatment centers, and more are expected to be designated as such in the coming weeks.

The statement also said that personnel at the Ebola treatment centers have been assessed to have the trained staff, enough equipment, technical capabilities, overall resources and best training to handle cases of Ebola, while at the same time minimizing risk to healthcare workers.

The announcement comes on the heels of a separate report that said the latest death figures in West Africa, site of the current Ebola outbreak, have risen to around 7,000 since March, when the epidemic began.

What are they NOT telling us?

"As long as Ebola is spreading in West Africa, we must prepare for the possibility of additional cases in the United States," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in the press release. "We are implementing and constantly strengthening multiple levels of protection, including increasing the number of hospitals that have the training and capabilities to manage the complex care of an Ebola patient. These hospitals have worked hard to rigorously assess their capabilities and train their staff."

The CDC said the healthcare centers were chosen due to several criteria, as noted above, and in consultation with local healthcare officials and the administrative teams of each facility. Also, the hospitals were assessed on-site by a Rapid Ebola Preparedness team from the federal health agency. In addition, the CDC has released guidance to states and their healthcare institutions and centers helping them identify and designate Ebola treatment facilities.

The HHS state noted that, because of active monitoring from Ebola-stricken countries, "federal health officials have a clear sense of where travelers from affected countries in West Africa are going and where Ebola treatment centers are most likely to be needed."

"The hospitals on the list supplement the biocontaiment units at Emory University Hospital, Nebraska Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which have treated Ebola patients in this epidemic," FOX News reported.

List of hospitals so far

The 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers so far include:

Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Oakland, Calif.
Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center; Sacramento, Calif.
University of Calif. Davis Medical Center; Sacramento, Calif.
University of Calif. San Francisco Medical Center; San Francisco, Calif.
Emory University Hospital; Atlanta, Ga.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Chicago, Ill.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Chicago, Ill.
Rush University Medical Center; Chicago, Ill.
University of Chicago Medical Center; Chicago, Ill.
Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore, Md.
University of Maryland Medical Center; Baltimore, Md.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; Bethesda, Md.
Allina Health's Unity Hospital; Fridley, Minn.
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota; St. Paul, Minn.
Mayo Clinic Hospital; Minneapolis, Minn.
University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank Campus, Minneapolis; Rochester, Minn.
Nebraska Medicine; Omaha, Neb.
North Shore System LIJ/Glen Cove Hospital; Glen Cove, New York
Montefiore Health System; New York City, New York
New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital; New York City, New York
NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation/HHC Bellevue Hospital Center; New York City, New York
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital; New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Mount Sinai Hospital; New York City, New York
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pa.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pa.
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Galveston, Texas
Methodist Hospital System in collaboration with Parkland Hospital System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Richardson, Texas
University of Virginia Medical Center; Charlottesville, Va.
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center; Richmond, Va.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wis.
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin - Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Milwaukee, Wis.
UW Health - University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Children's Hospital, Madison; Madison, Wis.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Washington, DC
Children's National Medical Center; Washington DC
George Washington University Hospital; Washington DC


"More than 80 per cent of returning travelers from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa live within 200 miles (320 km) of a designated Ebola treatment center," the CDC said.

Learn all these details and more at the FREE online Pandemic Preparedness course at www.BioDefense.com

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http://www.sciencetimes.com

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[bw]

I already told my family there will be no more Ebola news. Their next information will be when their neighbor or one of their children gets it.

 

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I already told my family there will be no more Ebola news. Their next information will be when their neighbor or one of their children gets it.

Greetinngs, bw: That may be as prophetic as it may end up being true, too. Take care my friend. BREWER

 

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...rges-in-sierra-leone-communities-take-control

As Ebola Surges In Sierra Leone, Communities Take Control

Nurith Aizenman December 5, 2014

If you think the fight against Ebola is going well, here's a grim new number: 537.

That's how many new infections were reported in Sierra Leone in the past week. It's the highest weekly tally in any country since the West African outbreak began.

International governments and aid groups have scrambled to open Ebola treatment centers in the country. But, because of safety concerns, many of these centers are accepting only a fraction of the number of patients they were built to serve.

In the meantime, most sick people are being directed to makeshift, government-run centers. Some of these are simply schools or other government buildings repurposed into a "community care center" — a place for people with Ebola symptomsto be isolated.

Baimaur Laminangbatu, who heads up a chiefdom of several hundred villages in Sierra Leone's rural north, is helping transform a school into one of these care centers.

The facility is a lot more basic than the full-fledged treatment clinic down the street, which was built with funding from foreign governments, including the U.S. That facility has sophisticated in-ground plumbing and sanitation system.

Here at the school, workers are digging a big hole in the ground. "Those are the toilets for the suspected cases to use," Laminangbatu says.

The treatment offered at the care center will be limited — medication to bring down a fever and rehydration salts that patients can drink with little help or supervision. In contrast, at some treatment centers, patients are getting intravenous drips for fluid replacements and sponge baths.

Still though, Laminangbatu and his team have stood up this community care center in a matter of days. The facility is remarkably simple. In one room, there are eleven metal cots.

"This place was a classroom," Laminangbatu says. A chalkboard on the wall still has a lesson written on it. "My name is Hawa. I'm a girl. I'm 4 years old," Laminangbatu reads off the board.

These community care centers — and larger holding centers — were originally conceived of as temporary triage posts. Health officials intended them to be places where people who might have Ebola could be isolated while they waited for an Ebola test result. If the test came back positive, then a person would be sent onto a proper treatment facility.

But right now, there's no better place to go. So sick people are getting stuck at these triage centers.

It's better than nothing, Laminangbatu says. "If we allow those sick to be in the community, Ebola will spread," he says. "And all of us will die."

But a few miles down the road, at a holding center, I met Dr. Corrado Conceda, with the aid group Partners In Health. He thinks it's unacceptable that so many Sierra Leoneans will have to die while waiting for the international response to scale up.

Why should people here get a lower standard of care than Americans or Europeans, Conceda asks? "Everybody deserves the same level of care," he says. "That should always be our goal and our guiding principle."

Conceda has begun turning this existing holding center into a full-fledged treatment facility, with IVs. He's also bringing in medical workers from overseas and trainers in a matter of days, not weeks.

And Conceda totally rejects idea that Ebola has to be such a deadly disease. "Ebola kills so many people here [in Sierra Leone] because there's not the resources to take care of patients properly," Conceda says.

As soon as possible, he wants to start using start using lab tests to monitor organ function and tweak electrolyte levels — the tools that American and European hospitals have been using to support their Ebola patients.

"Let's bring the tools, and then the mortality rate will go down," Conceda says. "There's no reason why it couldn't be 20 percent, or 10 percent, if you diagnose patients early enough before they're sick."

The key to getting there, Conceda says, is to maintain that moral outrage — that sense that as long as people are dying, what you're doing is never enough.

 

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/peacekeeper-liberia-tests-positive-ebola-27383914

UN Peacekeeper in Liberia Tests Positive for Ebola

Dec 5, 2014

A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.

The Nigerian soldier will go into isolation at a "calamity unit" at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen. He is expected to arrive in Amsterdam over the weekend and be transferred by ambulance to nearby Utrecht.

Late Thursday, the U.N. mission announced that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier.

This is the third case of Ebola among mission personnel, according to Karin Landgren, the top U.N. envoy in the country. The previous two died.

The mission has so far identified 16 people who came into contact with the soldier, and they have been quarantined, she said. Areas the peacekeeper visited while symptomatic have been decontaminated.

The man will be the first Ebola patient hospitalized in the Netherlands. He is being treated in a Dutch hospital at the request of the World Health Organization, Freriksen said.

The Ebola outbreak has sickened nearly 17,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, about 6,100 have died.

The U.N. force, with about 7,700 troops and police, has been in Liberia since 2003 to bring stability after two civil wars.

 

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...re-ebola-nurse-nina-phams-dog-was-27k-n261601

Cost For Dallas to Care For Ebola Nurse Nina Pham's Dog Was $27K: City

Caring for Ebola patient Nina Pham's dog during a 21-day quarantine period in October cost the city of Dallas about $27,000, according to an expense list made public Wednesday. Dallas officials said the price tag to house and monitor the pooch — a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Bentley — is being offset by $19,000 in private donations and grants.

Overall, the city spent more than $155,000 on the emergency response to the Ebola crisis, which included dealing with hazardous materials, police and fire department overtime, and bills for the care and security of the family of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.

Pham was one of two nurses who contracted Ebola while treating Duncan, a Liberian national who died of the virus in October. Pham and the other nurse, Amber Vinson, both recovered. Health officials have said there are no known reports of dogs or cats contracting or spreading Ebola, but Bentley was monitored out of precaution.

The cost of caring for human Ebola patients is much heftier: about $30,000 a day, according to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has treated three such cases. The invoice released by the city of Dallas does not include expenses paid for by Dallas County, the state or federal agencies.

Ebola Patient Nina Pham's Dog Bentley is 'Doing Great'
NBC News

IN-DEPTH

Cost to Treat Ebola: $1 Million For Two Patients
Recovered Ebola Nurse Nina Pham and Dog Bentley Reunite in Dallas
Cured of Ebola, Nina Pham Anxious to See Family, Dog

 

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...ho-had-ebola-asks-bridal-shop-refunds-n256151

Amber Vinson, Nurse Who Had Ebola, Asks Bridal Shop for Refunds

A Dallas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola is requesting refunds from the Ohio bridal shop she visited, but the store says the reimbursements aren't feasible because it had to temporarily close and lost significant business.

Amber Vinson's Dallas attorney asked that Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal refund $480 in dress payments by several of Vinson's bridesmaids, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. Attorney Stephen Malouf said Vinson, who has recovered, saw the publicity of her case harm the store and decided to get bridesmaids' dresses elsewhere to avoid further scrutiny for the business.

Owner Anna Younker said Vinson's change of heart and the refund request feel like a slap in the face after the shop lost tens of thousands of dollars because of its connection to her.

Malouf said that wasn't Vinson's intention.

"I'm sorry that the shop is upset," he said. "This was an effort to help the shop and Amber. ... This was a purely innocent request and I'm sorry it wasn't received in the spirit in which it was sent."

Younker said she occasionally makes exceptions to her store's usual policy against refunds, but that it's not feasible in this case. "It doesn't make sense," Younker said. "I'm out a lot of money."

The blow to the business was among the ripple effects of Vinson's diagnosis, which also led to several weeks of health monitoring for more than 160 people in Ohio, including a few who were quarantined. None showed symptoms.

 

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http://www.today.com/health/nbcs-dr-nancy-snyderman-very-sorry-violating-ebola-quarantine-1D80333506

Dr. Nancy Snyderman on violating Ebola quarantine: ‘I’m very sorry’
Eun Kyung Kim TODAY

Dec. 3, 2014 at 8:19 AM ET

NBC's chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman spoke out Wednesday about the fallout from violating her voluntary Ebola quarantine, apologizing for "scaring my community" and adding to the confusion and chaos surrounding the deadly virus.

"I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that I think came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola did," she told TODAY's Matt Lauer in her first appearance since breaking the self-imposed 21-day period of isolation.

More than two months ago, Snyderman traveled to Liberia to report on the Ebola crisis. While there, Ashoka Mukpo, a photojournalist working with her team contracted the virus. Snyderman agreed to the voluntary self-quarantine before she returned to the United States.

"I wear two hats — I have my doctor hat and I have my journalist hat, and when the science and the messaging sometimes collide, and you leave the optics, in this case a hot zone and come back to the United States, good people can make mistakes," she said. "I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sorry."

While in Liberia, Snyderman and her team already were monitoring their vitals and taking their temperatures “four, five, six times a day,” she said.

“We knew the risks in our head but didn’t really appreciate, and frankly we were not sensitive to, how absolutely frightened Americans were,” she said.

Snyderman returned home during a period when there was mass confusion about Ebola, how it spreads and how the virus could be contained. The way medical officials talked about the virus was crucial, and she said she hopes her actions don't make it more difficult to report about Ebola developments.

"I would go back tomorrow and so would my entire team," she said. "My concern is that this has been a distraction from the real issue at hand. We can’t afford to not to concentrate on West Africa."

Snyderman described tragic scenes she witnessed in Liberia — including the sick being delivered to hospitals in hospitals in wheelbarrows or women giving birth in the middle of the street.

"This epidemic is not going to away, the Ebola epidemic, and there will be viruses in the future that will jump from animals to humans, so how do we message from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) to NBC News to me personally?" she said. "I’ve learned a lot through this, but we have to remember that we live in a smaller world day by day and this may be a big lesson for all of us in how we treat epidemics in the future and how we message better and how we keep our promises."

 

[gunnersmom]

What a load of horse crap Dr Snyderman delivered:

"Snyderman described tragic scenes she witnessed in Liberia — including the sick being delivered to hospitals in hospitals in wheelbarrows or women giving birth in the middle of the street."

She describes that scene after telling mavelous Matt Lauer that they took their own temp up to six times a day BUT "didn’t really appreciate, and frankly we were not sensitive to, how absolutely frightened Americans were,” she said.'

Who the hell do they think is stupid enough to believe their bullshit?

 

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What a load of horse crap Dr Snyderman delivered:

"Snyderman described tragic scenes she witnessed in Liberia — including the sick being delivered to hospitals in hospitals in wheelbarrows or women giving birth in the middle of the street."

She describes that scene after telling mavelous Matt Lauer that they took their own temp up to six times a day BUT "didn’t really appreciate, and frankly we were not sensitive to, how absolutely frightened Americans were,” she said.'

Who the hell do they think is stupid enough to believe their bullshit?

Greetings, Gunnersmom: Yeah, no kidding...I guess the same people who watch CNN and The View. She's discredited herself and should have her medical license reviewed, suspended or revoked. Good grief what a moron. Take care. BREWER

 

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http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82203691/

2 Sierra Leone doctors die of Ebola in 1 day: sources

December 5, 2014

Two doctors died of Ebola in Sierra Leone on Friday, a government and a hospital source said, bringing to 10 the number of doctors killed in the country by the virus.

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has torn through some of West Africa's weakest health systems, killing nearly 350 medical personnel, including 106 in Sierra Leone, which is still rebuilding from years of war in the 1990s.

"We are devastated at this haemorrhaging of our healthcare workers," a senior health ministry official told Reuters, asking not to be named.

There was no immediate comment from authorities but the sources named the two dead doctors as Dr Dauda Koroma and Dr Thomas Rogers.

It is not clear how the men were infected as they were not working on the frontline in an Ebola clinic.

While addressing parliament earlier on Friday, President Ernest Bai Koroma had called medical personnel fighting Ebola the country’s “greatest patriots”.

Sierra Leone has pledged to pay the families of all medical staff who die battling Ebola $5,000 in compensation.

The latest figures from the World Health Organisation showed Ebola has killed nearly 6,200 people, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, since it was confirmed in the region earlier this year.

 

[Doomer Doug]

This is a link to the latest WHO lies. I also shifted this post from the old thread to the new thread.

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.ebola-sitrep.ebola-summary-20141205?lang=en


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SUMMARY OF OFFICIAL WHO STATISTICS FOR 12-3, 12-4 AND 12-5-2014

WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS FOR WEST AFRICA.

EBOLA INFECTED:
12-3 17,145
12-4 17,257
12-5 17,517

EBOLA DEAD
12-3 6,070
12-4 6,113
12-5 6,187

WHO IS NOW SAYING THAT BETWEEN 45 AND 75 PEOPLE ARE NOW DYING FROM EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA DAILY.

WHO IS NOW SAYING FROM 12-4 TO 12-5 EBOLA INFECTIONS INCREASED FROM 112 TO 360 PER DAY.

WHO IS NOW, APPARENTLY SAYING, THERE WILL BE 10,000 "OFFICIAL EBOLA CASES" IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE NEXT 30 DAYS.

Obviously, WHO has no idea of what they are talking about.

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[Doomer Doug]

Liberian political system now in full collapse!

It is clear the incompetent and corrupt Liberian government is using Ebola to stay in power.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/world/africa/liberia-bans-election-rallies-to-fight-ebola-.html


Liberia Bans Election Rallies to Fight Ebola

By CLAIR MacDOUGALL and RICK GLADSTONEDEC. 4, 2014
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in Monrovia in October. She has banned mass gatherings linked to Senate elections. Credit John Moore/Getty Images
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MONROVIA, Liberia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday banned all rallies and other mass gatherings in Monrovia before the senatorial election scheduled in less than two weeks, asserting that they risked worsening the spread of the Ebola outbreak.

The president’s order also extended the ban to 30 days after the election. The order came just as Liberia appears to have made progress in slowing the disease, which has also severely afflicted neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone, and has spread to Mali.

Ebola has now sickened more than 17,200 people in the three worst-hit countries and killed more than 6,100, according to the latest data posted Thursday by the World Health Organization. Half the deaths have been in Liberia.
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In issuing the crowd-control order, Ms. Johnson Sirleaf argued that large concentrations of people at election rallies — especially in the Monrovia area, where half the population of four million lives — were precisely the situations that could spawn new infections.
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Curbing such gatherings, she said, would “strengthen the efforts of the government of Liberia to contain the spread of Ebola, to protect the security of the state, maintain law and order and promote peace and stability in Liberia.”

The Senate election, scheduled for Dec. 16, already has been postponed once because of the Ebola crisis, which began last March. It has escalated into what United Nations officials have called one of the worst public health crises of modern times.

The Supreme Court of Liberia is deliberating on petitions filed by civil society groups seeking a further postponement of the election until the crisis is over, and its decision could come on Friday.

Most political parties, however, want the election to proceed.

The chairman of the Liberian National Elections Commission, Jerome Korkoya, said further delays could cause havoc in convening a new Senate.

“The government would be crippled,” Mr. Korkoya said in an interview. “We have no option.”

 

[Doomer Doug]

Gee, Doomer Doug thought the USA had "no Ebola cases at all." LOL Watch what they do, and not what they say!


http://www.11alive.com/story/news/lo...-cdc/19909977/


Georgia monitoring more than 100 people for Ebola symptoms
Rebecca Lindstrom, WXIA 6:56 p.m. EST December 4, 2014
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ATLANTA -- When two nurses in Texas were diagnosed with Ebola after treating a patient in their care, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Georgia would have six hospitals specially equipped and trained to treat the illness.

"It is better to be overly cautious than it is to be not cautious at all," said Deal at an October 27 campaign event, where he announced the state's plan for dealing with increased screening checks at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Ebola treatment center at Emory

Ebola treatment center at Emory(Photo: NBC)

But more than a month later the state still has the same number of hospitals approved and ready to treat Ebola as it did back then: one.

A month after Governor promises six designated Ebola treatment facilities, the state still only has one.

According to a CDC report, there are 35 approved hospitals across the country. Emory University Hospital is the only Georgia facility on that list.

The Department of Public Health won't say when other hospitals will be ready or how many are even trying. Nor would it address concerns the state is falling behind others in preparedness.

DPH spokesperson Nancy Nydam did release this statement: "The hospitals and staff are going through intense training in preparation for treating Ebola patients or evaluating potential cases of Ebola. Some of the hospitals are making physical modifications to their facilities in order to properly care for patients or potential patients, while keeping their medical staff protected, along with other patients and or members of the public. The hospitals will also be visited by the CDC and others to ensure they have completed all the training and met all the requirements to be Ebola-ready treatment or evaluation facilities. Hospitals are at different levels of completion, but while preparation is still ongoing, DPH will not identify any of the hospitals."

Border patrol has stepped up screening at five airports. Right now, New York and Newark have six Ebola ready hospitals. Washington DC has three and Chicago has four. The CDC says there are seven other states with more hospitals ready to treat Ebola than Georgia.

While none of the passengers passing through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have been diagnosed with Ebola, the state says it has passed out more than 300 Ebola care kits and has 111 people actively being monitored right now, to make sure they don't show signs of the illness.

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[BigFootsCousin]

The thing that bothers me about all of this is: How come we're spending so much time and resources on this, if it's NOT on our radar currently? I mean, every damn RN in the ED and Critical Care HAD TO DO THE TRAINING where I work, and in all of our sister hospitals as well.

Why all this time and expense?

I'm certainly NOT hearing about anymore local cases, last one was a few weeks ago, that was in isolation in Medford Oregon.

I feel like we're on pins and needles with all of this. Like, something could pop-off at any moment.......like there's something that the PTB know......that we don't.

I can tell you this, the training is intense, and it goes step-by-step in the donning/doffing procedure. It's like a pilots checklist, very exact.

BFC

 

[Old Gray Mare]

Gee, Doomer Doug thought the USA had "no Ebola cases at all." LOL Watch what they do, and not what they say!

Fair use.
Fortune
US: Ebola Czar, Ron Klain is resigning.

President Obama’s fix-it man is returning to Steve Case’s venture firm early next year.
by Tory Newmyer

December 6, 2014, 7:00 AM EST
With the Ebola crisis seemingly in hand, Ron Klain, the veteran political operative the White House plucked from a venture capital gig to coordinate the government’s response, is planning a late-winter return to the private sector.

Klain has committed to former AOL chief Steve Case that by March 1, he’ll be back on the job as president of Case Holdings and general counsel for Case’s venture firm Revolution LLC, Case tells Fortune. An administration official confirmed the plan.

“He has no intention of staying on in any other capacity here at the White House,” the administration official said. “Ron will do the job for which he was appointed and return to Revolution.”

Klain’s role as the White House’s “Ebola czar” was always meant to be temporary. He took a leave of absence from Revolution in late October to join the administration as a special government employee — a technical designation for short-termers that stipulates they’ll stay on the job no longer than 130 days. But there has been active speculation, fueled by a POLITICO report, that Klain would stay on in the White House in another role, potentially succeeding John Podesta as Counselor to the President, if Podesta quits to run a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Contrary to the chatter, Case said the expiration date on Klain’s public service has been well understood within the White House. Talks to bring Klain aboard proceeded rapidly — Case said they started two days before the White House announced the appointment on Oct. 17 — and that Klain “was not eager to take on this assignment but felt it was an important thing to do. He agreed to do it with the understanding that it would be for a limited period of time.”

A behind-the-scenes operator by temperament, Klain found himself thrust into a vortex of crisis-driven fears and politically motivated recriminations upon being named to tackle the challenge. Two weeks out from the midterm elections, the White House looked badly off-balance. The outbreak was defying official assurances the situation was under control — two nurses treating a Liberian man in Dallas contracted the disease, revealing containment protocols porous as a chain-link fence. Congressional calls for a travel ban piled up as cable news whipped public concern toward panic.

Klain’s appointment did little to calm nerves. Republicans leapt on the selection of a political hand — Klain served as chief of staff to then-Vice President Al Gore and worked for Vice President Joe Biden coordinating the launch of the 2009 stimulus package — as a signal the White House was treating the Ebola threat as a political headache. Even Saturday Night Live took up the GOP line, lampooning Klain’s lack of healthcare expertise.

Seven weeks on, however, the disease has all but fallen off the radar. A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died in a Nebraska hospital on Nov. 17, bringing the total U.S. death to two, and no new cases have surfaced since. The White House touted the progress under Klain in a Monday memo, noting the 32 new designated treatment facilities, 29 labs newly equipped to test for the disease, an enhanced screening system for travelers from abroad and the completion of the first phase of clinical trials for a vaccine. While it’s of course tough to know how much of that would have been achieved without Klain’s involvement, the administration official said he gets credit for “building the airplane mid-flight. You really need someone who’s at the bellybutton of this, who can call upon all of the resources of the United States government. That person has to sit at the White House, where Ron, as he currently does, has ready access to the President and all of his senior-most advisors, and is able to ensure the response is adequately resourced and synchronized both at home and overseas.”

Klain still has plenty to do. At the moment, his work is focused on securing Congressional support for Obama’s $6.2 billion request to fund a range of emergency response measures, even though any sense of emergency has palpably drained away. The President himself traveled to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. on Tuesday to press the case, but the ask is tangled in a broader budget dispute and Congressional Republicans are unlikely to meet it in full.

That said, the best testimonial to the low-key Klain’s performance may be his success in disappearing back behind the curtain. Fortune asked four of the most outspoken Congressional Republican critics of his appointment to weigh in on how he’s done so far. All declined to comment. “He’s perfectly fine not getting credit,” says Case. “In fact, he prefers it.”

https://fortune.com/2014/12/06/so-long-ebola-czar/

 

[Broccoli]

http://youtu.be/I2i_A_8XbYc

Published on Dec 5, 2014
United Nations HQ, New York - Special meeting on “Ebola: A threat to sustainable development” (5 December 2014).

Margaret Chans new address to UN. She sees difficulties arriving in a few months. "Environmental changes" (a year without a summer?) Mic cuts out around 10 min. accident?

 

[Broccoli]

https://fortune.com/2014/12/06/so-long-ebola-czar/

So long, Ebola Czar. Ron Klain is heading back to the private sector.

President Obama’s fix-it man is returning to Steve Case’s venture firm early next year.

With the Ebola crisis seemingly in hand, Ron Klain, the veteran political operative the White House plucked from a venture capital gig to coordinate the government’s response, is planning a late-winter return to the private sector.

Klain has committed to former AOL chief Steve Case that by March 1, he’ll be back on the job as president of Case Holdings and general counsel for Case’s venture firm Revolution LLC, Case tells Fortune. An administration official confirmed the plan.

“He has no intention of staying on in any other capacity here at the White House,” the administration official said. “Ron will do the job for which he was appointed and return to Revolution.”

Klain’s role as the White House’s “Ebola czar” was always meant to be temporary. He took a leave of absence from Revolution in late October to join the administration as a special government employee — a technical designation for short-termers that stipulates they’ll stay on the job no longer than 130 days. But there has been active speculation, fueled by a POLITICO report, that Klain would stay on in the White House in another role, potentially succeeding John Podesta as Counselor to the President, if Podesta quits to run a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Contrary to the chatter, Case said the expiration date on Klain’s public service has been well understood within the White House. Talks to bring Klain aboard proceeded rapidly — Case said they started two days before the White House announced the appointment on Oct. 17 — and that Klain “was not eager to take on this assignment but felt it was an important thing to do. He agreed to do it with the understanding that it would be for a limited period of time.”

A behind-the-scenes operator by temperament, Klain found himself thrust into a vortex of crisis-driven fears and politically motivated recriminations upon being named to tackle the challenge. Two weeks out from the midterm elections, the White House looked badly off-balance. The outbreak was defying official assurances the situation was under control — two nurses treating a Liberian man in Dallas contracted the disease, revealing containment protocols porous as a chain-link fence. Congressional calls for a travel ban piled up as cable news whipped public concern toward panic.

Klain’s appointment did little to calm nerves. Republicans leapt on the selection of a political hand — Klain served as chief of staff to then-Vice President Al Gore and worked for Vice President Joe Biden coordinating the launch of the 2009 stimulus package — as a signal the White House was treating the Ebola threat as a political headache. Even Saturday Night Live took up the GOP line, lampooning Klain’s lack of healthcare expertise.

Seven weeks on, however, the disease has all but fallen off the radar. A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died in a Nebraska hospital on Nov. 17, bringing the total U.S. death to two, and no new cases have surfaced since. The White House touted the progress under Klain in a Monday memo, noting the 32 new designated treatment facilities, 29 labs newly equipped to test for the disease, an enhanced screening system for travelers from abroad and the completion of the first phase of clinical trials for a vaccine. While it’s of course tough to know how much of that would have been achieved without Klain’s involvement, the administration official said he gets credit for “building the airplane mid-flight. You really need someone who’s at the bellybutton of this, who can call upon all of the resources of the United States government. That person has to sit at the White House, where Ron, as he currently does, has ready access to the President and all of his senior-most advisors, and is able to ensure the response is adequately resourced and synchronized both at home and overseas.”

Klain still has plenty to do. At the moment, his work is focused on securing Congressional support for Obama’s $6.2 billion request to fund a range of emergency response measures, even though any sense of emergency has palpably drained away. The President himself traveled to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. on Tuesday to press the case, but the ask is tangled in a broader budget dispute and Congressional Republicans are unlikely to meet it in full.

That said, the best testimonial to the low-key Klain’s performance may be his success in disappearing back behind the curtain. Fortune asked four of the most outspoken Congressional Republican critics of his appointment to weigh in on how he’s done so far. All declined to comment. “He’s perfectly fine not getting credit,” says Case. “In fact, he prefers it.”


comment: A business called Revolution??

 

[Broccoli]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...r-Ebola-at-Harborview-284987091.html?mobile=y

Health officials testing man for Ebola in Seattle

SEATTLE - A man living in King County is being tested for Ebola at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, James Appa with Public Health King County said Saturday.

The man had been traveling from Mali with his son, and developed a low grade fever and sore throat Friday night.

The possibility of the man having Ebola is relatively low, officials said. He is in "good spirits," and is currently isolated as a precaution.

The Mali-born man had been visiting family for three weeks, and has been under routine monitoring by health officials since arriving in Seattle.

Health officials have taken precautions to minimize the risk of the disease spreading to the public by checking all who came in contact with the man.

"The risk to the general public remains extremely low," Dr. Duchin said Saturday.

Harborview Medical Center is also reducing risk of the disease spreading by implementing an Ebola response plan, Appa said.

The results for the test are expected to be ready at least 12 hours after the test arrives at the lab, and will be released by public health officials when they are available.

 

[bw]

The outbreak was defying official assurances the situation was under control

Don't you just HATE when it does that?

 

[Broccoli]

I gather from the above info that the Ebola media embargo is ending. The media can no longer hide the obvious sudden deaths of a spreading contagion. The ones who are young and/or bleeding from every orifice dropping dead on planes etc. These events are now going to increase in frequency and number; thus ebola czar Klain is abandoning ship.

Margaret Chan states in diplomatic speak that "game is over" unless…..

Time is real short. Real short.

 

[bw]

I gather from the above info that the Ebola media embargo is ending. The media can no longer hide the obvious sudden deaths of a spreading contagion. The ones who are young and/or bleeding from every orifice dropping dead on planes etc. These events are now going to increase in frequency and number; thus ebola czar Klain is abandoning ship.

Seems more likely that he's done what he came to do - made the necessary phone calls to media, and established a staff to enforce the embargo. He'll hand it over to a paper-pusher who can run the staff but didn't have the know-how to create the structure.

Western Africa is still fighting the news after all this time. The US isn't going to give up so easily.

 

[Broccoli]

I'm sorry to say it but below is probably a very conservative estimate of how it will play out over the next year, it's likely to spread much faster once it gets a foothold in the western world.

Mar, 2014 - Infected: 104 Dead: 62
Apr, 2014 - Infected: 194 Dead: 116
May, 2014 - Infected: 360 Dead: 216
Jun, 2014 - Infected: 670 Dead: 402
Jul, 2014 - Infected: 1,247 Dead: 748
Aug, 2014 - Infected: 2,319 Dead: 1,391
Sep, 2014 - Infected: 4,313 Dead: 2,588
Oct, 2014 - Infected: 8,022 Dead: 4,813
Nov, 2014 - Infected: 14,921 Dead: 8,953 <--- We are here
Dec, 2014 - Infected: 27,753 Dead: 16,652
Jan, 2015 - Infected: 51,621 Dead: 30,973
Feb, 2015 - Infected: 96,016 Dead: 57,610
Mar, 2015 - Infected: 178,590 Dead: 107,154
Apr, 2015 - Infected: 332,177 Dead: 199,306
May, 2015 - Infected: 617,849 Dead: 370,709
Jun, 2015 - Infected: 1,149,199 Dead: 689,519
Jul, 2015 - Infected: 2,137,510 Dead: 1,282,506
Aug, 2015 - Infected: 3,975,768 Dead: 2,385,461
Sep, 2015 - Infected: 7,394,928 Dead: 4,436,957
Oct, 2015 - Infected: 13,754,567 Dead: 8,252,740
Nov, 2015 - Infected: 25,583,494 Dead: 15,350,096
Dec, 2015 - Infected: 47,585,299 Dead: 28,551,179
Jan, 2016 - Infected: 88,508,656 Dead: 53,105,193
Feb, 2016 - Infected: 164,626,099 Dead: 98,775,660
Mar, 2016 - Infected: 306,204,545 Dead: 183,722,727
Apr, 2016 - Infected: 569,540,453 Dead: 341,724,272
May, 2016 - Infected: 1,059,345,243 Dead: 635,607,146
Jun, 2016 - Infected: 1,970,382,153 Dead: 1,182,229,292
Jul, 2016 - Infected: 3,664,910,804 Dead: 2,198,946,482
Aug, 2016 - Infected: 6,816,734,096 Dead: 4,090,040,457

 

[bw]

I'm sorry to say it but below is probably a very conservative estimate of how it will play out over the next year, it's likely to spread much faster once it gets a foothold in the western world.

What population does this cover? It clearly isn't worldwide, since western Africa numbers are already way beyond that.

 

[Broccoli]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-czar-urges-funding-20141205-story.html

before he quits because there is not a problem needs $6.18 BBBilion

Ebola 'czar' urges Congress to authorize emergency funding

The Ebola outbreak can only be successfully contained if the U.S. takes the lead and provides funding to fight the deadly virus at home and in West Africa, the man tapped to coordinate the federal government's response to the disease said Friday.

“In this case, America has to lead, and it has led,” said Ron Klain, the nation's Ebola "czar," reiterating the administration’s appeal for more money from Congress to fight the disease.

50% rule

 

[Broccoli]

What population does this cover? It clearly isn't worldwide, since western Africa numbers are already way beyond that.

These are numbers crunched by exponentials of a ROI. Depending on your ROI changes the number outcome. The Rate Of Infection is being widely argued on all fronts. The CDC is keeping it way low below or around 2, the WhO waffles and conspiracy theorist run with it up to 12-14 (cantagion level 4 bioweapon).

Oct 31, 2014 - Infected: 15,134 Dead: 10,594 ROI: 2.02
Nov, 2014 - Infected: 30,570 Dead: 21,399 ROI: 2.02
Dec, 2014 - Infected: 61,752 Dead: 43,226 ROI: 2.02
Jan, 2015 - Infected: 124,739 Dead: 87,317 ROI: 2.02
Feb, 2015 - Infected: 251,973 Dead: 176,381 ROI: 2.02
Mar, 2015 - Infected: 508,986 Dead: 356,290 ROI: 2.02
Apr, 2015 - Infected: 1,028,152 Dead: 719,706 ROI: 2.02
May, 2015 - Infected: 2,076,867 Dead: 1,453,807 ROI: 2.02
Jun, 2015 - Infected: 4,195,272 Dead: 2,936,690 ROI: 2.02
Jul, 2015 - Infected: 8,474,449 Dead: 5,932,114 ROI: 2.02
Aug, 2015 - Infected: 17,118,387 Dead: 11,982,871 ROI: 2.02
Sep, 2015 - Infected: 34,579,141 Dead: 24,205,399 ROI: 2.02
Oct, 2015 - Infected: 69,849,865 Dead: 48,894,906 ROI: 2.02
Nov, 2015 - Infected: 141,096,727 Dead: 98,767,709 ROI: 2.02
Dec, 2015 - Infected: 285,015,389 Dead: 199,510,773 ROI: 2.02
Jan, 2016 - Infected: 575,731,087 Dead: 403,011,761 ROI: 2.02
Feb, 2016 - Infected: 1,162,976,795 Dead: 814,083,757 ROI: 2.02
Mar, 2016 - Infected: 2,349,213,126 Dead: 1,644,449,188 ROI: 2.02

 

[Doomer Doug]

Sierra Leone continues to show explosive Ebola growth rates, ignored by the powers that be. Broccoli, those numbers are off by a 1 to 3 month factor. The real total number of Ebola cases in West Africa is easily 100,000 right now, which is where "they" show the infected to be at the end of January. I will say it again: If WHO flew a helicopter over rural Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, they would find a desolate wasteland of abandoned villages and rotting corpses in the jungle. A rhetorical question here: If a person dies in rural Liberia, and nobody counts the corpse then how will that death show up in the WHO statistics? It won't.


http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/12/07/10th-sierra-leonean-doctor-dies-from-ebola FAIR USE DOCTRINE


10th Sierra Leonean doctor dies from Ebola as disease continues to hammer health workers
Associated Press Dec. 7, 2014 | 12:12 p.m. EST + More

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Another Sierra Leonean doctor has died from Ebola, the 10th to succumb to the disease, in what the country's chief medical officer on Sunday called a shocking trend.

Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima died Saturday, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo. His death came a day after two other doctors died from Ebola.

Konoyeima worked at a children's hospital in the capital and was treated at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center.

Because Ebola is transmitted through the bodily fluids of the sick and dead, it is sometimes called the "caretakers' disease." Hundreds of health workers have been infected in this outbreak, which overall has sickened more than 17,500 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, about 6,200 have died.

In all, 11 Sierra Leonean doctors have been infected; only one has survived. That's much higher than an overall fatality rate of 60 percent for hospitalized patients in the three most affected countries, according to the World Health Organization.

Trying to explain why so many doctors have died, Kargbo said doctors may initially try to manage their symptoms at home and seek treatment later than other patients.

He described as "shocking the continuing death rate among Sierra Leonean frontline medical doctors."

But the branch of the country's medical association that represents junior doctors has been pushing for better care for infected medical workers.

The group met Saturday with President Ernest Bai Koroma and asked him to make sure the necessary life-saving equipment was available to treat doctors, according to Dr. Jeredine George, the group's president.

Koroma, according Kargbo, promised that a new unit to treat doctors would open soon. British army medics are already staffing a clinic dedicated to treating health workers.

In recent days, including Sunday, the World Food Program and the British military dropped food by helicopter to residents of Sherbro Island and surrounding islands who typically live by selling their fishing catch, but are struggling with so many markets shut because of Ebola.

___

Associated Press photographer Michael Duff contributed to this report from Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone.

Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

[Doomer Doug]

SIERRA LEONE IN NEAR TOTAL EBOLA COLLAPSE PHASE.

Doomer Doug continues to wonder how the powers that be can possibly not understand Sierra Leone is now in late system collapse phase: economic, political, health care, and the very social fabric of the society. I have posted story after story showing the TOTAL COLLAPSE of the social order in Sierra Leone, but you would never realize this from either WHO and mass media official statements.

As Ebola Rages, Poor Planning Thwarts Efforts

By JEFFREY GETTLEMANDEC. 6, 2014
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A lab technician from the Sierra Leone Health Ministry with a cooler of blood samples from suspected Ebola patients. Delays in testing are causing serious bottlenecks at treatment centers. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
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KERRY TOWN, Sierra Leone — On a freshly cleared hillside outside the capital, where the trees have been chopped down and replaced with acres of smooth gravel, the new Ebola treatment center seems to have everything. There are racks of clean pink scrubs and white latex boots, bathrooms that smell like Ajax, solar-powered lights, a pharmacy tent, even a thatch-roofed hut to relax in.

But one piece is missing: staff. The facility opened recently with a skeleton crew. Now, in an especially hard-hit area where people are dying every day because they cannot get into an Ebola clinic, 60 of the 80 beds at the Kerry Town Ebola clinic are not being used.

It is like this with a lot here: good intentions, bad planning. Aid officials in Sierra Leone say poor coordination among aid groups, government mismanagement and some glaring inefficiencies are costing countless lives.
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Some officials argue that the whole response system seems to be begging for a McKinsey & Company, or some other troubleshooter, to rush in and problem solve.
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Graphic: Ebola Facts: Where Are the Most New Cases Being Reported?

Ambulances, for example, are being used to ferry blood samples, sometimes just one test tube at a time, while many patients die at home after waiting days for an ambulance to come.

Half of the patients in some front-line Ebola clinics do not even have Ebola, but their test results take so long that they end up lingering for days, taking beds from people whose lives hang in the balance and greatly increasing their own chances of catching the virus in such close quarters.

Even after patients recover, many treatment centers delay releasing them for more than a week until there are enough other survivors, sometimes dozens, to hold one huge goodbye ceremony for everyone — again, keeping desperately needed beds occupied. “I just wanted to get home and see my wife,” said Suliman Wafta, a recent Ebola survivor treated nearby. “But I had to wait eight extra days.”

The latest Ebola numbers are ominous. This past week, Sierra Leone reported almost 100 new cases in a single day, nearly double the number just 10 days before — and those are only the confirmed cases, which health experts say may be a third of the total. At this rate, the swelling roster of the gravely ill will far outstrip even the most optimistic projections for new hospital beds.

The recriminations are beginning to fly, especially against Britain, which, in a colonial-style carve-up of Ebola-afflicted countries, is the international power taking the lead here.

“Why are the British here? To end Ebola, or party?” read a headline in a local newspaper. It added, “While their American counterparts are working hard to end Ebola in Liberia, our so-called colonial masters are busy living the life of Riley.”

British officials say that is not true, and that the 800 or so soldiers deployed here, who are building new treatment centers and training medics, are not allowed even a beer. “We’re working from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week,” said Maj. Simon Reeves, a spokesman.
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A big question people here are beginning to ask is whether the American military, which has sent 2,400 troops to Liberia, has any appetite to come to Sierra Leone. Many aid officials say the Pentagon’s role in building treatment centers, establishing mobile blood labs and ferrying Ebola supplies around Liberia has helped slow the epidemic there.

An Obama administration official in Washington said that no decision had been made to shift American troops from Liberia to Sierra Leone or send in large numbers of reinforcements, but that “nothing is off the table.”

Like others, the official kept citing the “Brits’ primacy” in Sierra Leone — a reference to how, several months ago, Western powers divided Ebola responsibilities in West Africa along historical lines, with the United States helping Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves in 1822; France helping a former colony, Guinea; and Britain helping its own former colony, Sierra Leone.

According to several other American officials, the Pentagon was not enthusiastic about getting involved in Liberia in the first place and is resistant to going deeper into the region.

“They basically said, ‘We know conflict, but we don’t know Ebola,' ” said one American official in West Africa. The military is also tired from fighting two long wars, the official said.

The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, said the Defense Department was continuing to “monitor the spread of Ebola,” and was “mindful that it doesn’t just exist in Liberia.” In the next month, it will send two mobile blood labs to Sierra Leone to help reduce the bottlenecks caused by delays in testing.

Many aid officials in Sierra Leone said they crave a more effective command structure. The government runs a national emergency center, but aid officials said that with scores of foreign experts, government delegations and private charities flocking here, coordination was still messy, with many gaps and overlaps. It is extremely difficult, they said, to get even the most basic information, including how many treatment centers exist.

There are also growing questions about corruption, with the government announcing recently that it had found 6,000 “ghost medical workers” on its payroll, even as real Ebola burial teams and front-line health officers say they have not been paid in weeks.

 

[BREWER]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/africa-wins-again.html

Monday, December 8, 2014
Africa Wins Again

(NYTimes) KERRY TOWN, Sierra Leone — On a freshly cleared hillside outside the capital, where the trees have been chopped down and replaced with acres of smooth gravel, the new Ebola treatment center seems to have everything. There are racks of clean pink scrubs and white latex boots, bathrooms that smell like Ajax, solar-powered lights, a pharmacy tent, even a thatch-roofed hut to relax in.
But one piece is missing: staff. The facility opened recently with a skeleton crew. Now, in an especially hard-hit area where people are dying every day because they cannot get into an Ebola clinic, 60 of the 80 beds at the Kerry Town Ebola clinic are not being used.
It is like this with a lot here: good intentions, bad planning. Aid officials in Sierra Leone say poor coordination among aid groups, government mismanagement and some glaring inefficiencies are costing countless lives.

Ambulances, for example, are being used to ferry blood samples, sometimes just one test tube at a time, while many patients die at home after waiting days for an ambulance to come.
Half of the patients in some front-line Ebola clinics do not even have Ebola, but their test results take so long that they end up lingering for days, taking beds from people whose lives hang in the balance and greatly increasing their own chances of catching the virus in such close quarters.
Even after patients recover, many treatment centers delay releasing them for more than a week until there are enough other survivors, sometimes dozens, to hold one huge goodbye ceremony for everyone — again, keeping desperately needed beds occupied. “I just wanted to get home and see my wife,” said Suliman Wafta, a recent Ebola survivor treated nearby. “But I had to wait eight extra days.”
The latest Ebola numbers are ominous. This past week, Sierra Leone reported almost 100 new cases in a single day, nearly double the number just 10 days before — and those are only the confirmed cases, which health experts say may be a third of the total. At this rate, the swelling roster of the gravely ill will far outstrip even the most optimistic projections for new hospital beds.
Many aid officials in Sierra Leone said they crave a more effective command structure. The government runs a national emergency center, but aid officials said that with scores of foreign experts, government delegations and private charities flocking here, coordination was still messy, with many gaps and overlaps. It is extremely difficult, they said, to get even the most basic information, including how many treatment centers exist.
There are also growing questions about corruption, with the government announcing recently that it had found 6,000 “ghost medical workers” on its payroll, even as real Ebola burial teams and front-line health officers say they have not been paid in weeks.


Nice to know that with thousands dying there, no one is in actually in charge, the government is still massively corrupt, the former colonial power is still inept, and the legacy of their hapless former charges continues to exacerbate the crisis and prolong it beyond any explanation other than widespread massive stupidity of biblical proportions.

In short, because this is Africa we're talking about. But don't worry, whipping Ebola there is the key to not seeing it here, which is apparently one reason why Klown Klain is bailing out totally by March 1st, just about the time things there should totally go to hell. Nice work, Klowny.

Posted by Aesop at 6:49 AM
Labels: Ebola

 

[Be Well]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/...ins-again.html

Monday, December 8, 2014
Africa Wins Again

Nice to know that with thousands dying there, no one is in actually in charge, the government is still massively corrupt, the former colonial power is still inept, and the legacy of their hapless former charges continues to exacerbate the crisis and prolong it beyond any explanation other than widespread massive stupidity of biblical proportions.

In short, because this is Africa we're talking about. But don't worry, whipping Ebola there is the key to not seeing it here, which is apparently one reason why Klown Klain is bailing out totally by March 1st, just about the time things there should totally go to hell. Nice work, Klowny

That writer hits the bullseye, again and again, succintly.

 

[BREWER]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...s-in-Sierra-Leone-clinic-is-empty-5940170.php

As Ebola rages in Sierra Leone, clinic is empty

Jeffrey Gettleman December 6, 2014

KERRY TOWN, Sierra Leone - On a freshly cleared hillside outside the capital, where the trees have been chopped down and replaced with acres of smooth gravel, the new Ebola treatment center seems to have everything. There are racks of clean pink scrubs and white latex boots, bathrooms that smell like Ajax, solar-powered lights, a pharmacy tent, even a thatch-roofed hut to relax in.

But one piece is missing: staff. The facility opened recently with a skeleton crew. Now, in an especially hard-hit area where people are dying every day because they cannot get into an Ebola clinic, 60 of the 80 beds at the Kerry Town Ebola clinic are not being used.

It is like this with a lot here: good intentions, bad planning. Aid officials in Sierra Leone say poor coordination among aid groups, government mismanagement and some glaring inefficiencies are costing countless lives.

Ambulances, for example, are being used to ferry blood samples, sometimes just one test tube at a time, while many patients die at home after waiting days for an ambulance to come.

Half of the patients in some front-line Ebola clinics do not even have the virus, but their test results take so long that they end up lingering for days, taking beds from people whose lives hang in the balance and greatly increasing their own chances of catching the virus in such close quarters.

Even after patients recover, many treatment centers delay releasing them for more than a week until there are enough other survivors, sometimes dozens, to hold one huge goodbye ceremony for everyone - again, keeping desperately needed beds occupied.

"I just wanted to get home and see my wife," said Suliman Wafta, a recent Ebola survivor treated nearby. "But I had to wait eight extra days."

The latest Ebola numbers are ominous. This past week, Sierra Leone reported almost 100 new cases in a single day, nearly double the number just 10 days before - and those are only the confirmed cases, which health experts say may be a third of the total. At this rate, the swelling roster of the gravely ill will far outstrip even the most optimistic projections for new hospital beds.

The recriminations are beginning to fly, especially against Britain, which, in a carve-up of Ebola-afflicted countries, is the international power taking the lead here.

"Why are the British here? To end Ebola, or party?" read a recent headline in a local newspaper. It added, "While their American counterparts are working hard to end Ebola in Liberia, our so-called colonial masters are busy living the life of Riley."

British officials say that is not true, and that the 800 or so soldiers deployed here, who are building new treatment centers and training medics, are not allowed even a beer.

"We're working from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week," said Maj. Simon Reeves, a spokesman.

Many aid officials in Sierra Leone said they crave a more effective command structure. The government runs a national emergency center, but aid officials said that with scores of foreign experts, government delegations and private charities flocking here, coordination was still messy, with many gaps and overlaps. It is extremely difficult, they said, to get even the most basic information, including how many treatment centers exist.

There are also growing questions about corruption, with the government announcing recently that it had found 6,000 "ghost medical workers" on its payroll, even as real Ebola burial teams and front-line health officers say they have not been paid in weeks.

Nothing, though, has raised more eyebrows than the new Kerry Town Ebola clinic, about a half-hour's drive from the capital, Freetown. The clinic is an impressive campus of blue and white buildings lined up in perfectly straight rows, with all the orderliness of a military camp. It remains quiet, though, without enough trained nurses or hygienists to operate safely at anywhere close to capacity.

Several aid officials said the Sierra Leonean government had been in a rush to open the clinic, but the aid group tasked with running it, Save the Children International, had never run a critical-care field hospital. The rows of empty beds have led to some nasty finger-pointing.

Usually, in big emergencies where many people are in desperate need, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs plays a huge role, carrying out a somewhat standardized game plan of dividing services into clusters and then coordinating the work of private aid groups within each cluster. Ensuring "a coherent response to emergencies" is its raison d'être.

All across the refugee camps and war zones of Sudan, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to name a few, are legions of young aid workers shouting into walkie-talkies and scrambling around in vests stamped with "OCHA," as the office is known. But in Sierra Leone right now, there are very few to be seen.

"I have no idea why OCHA isn't doing this, and I think OCHA has no idea why they're not doing this," said Michael von Bertele, the global humanitarian director for Save the Children.

One U.N. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said OCHA defined the Ebola crisis as a "systemic medical issue."

"Corporately, this is not a humanitarian emergency," she said, but conceded that most aid agencies viewed it as one.

The United Nations still seems to be struggling with how to respond to one of the biggest international health crises in decades. After a lackluster start by the World Health Organization, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon established a separate Ebola mission in September to speed up the international response and cut through some of the typical U.N. bureaucracy.

Anthony Banbury, the head of that mission, said the United Nations was helping with crisis management and that OCHA had sent "a number of information officers" to the region. He also said the Sierra Leonean government was handling coordination "very effectively."

Many Sierra Leoneans find that laughable, but some said that because the government had declared a state of emergency, they had to speak carefully.

"Everybody knows there are huge gaps," said Ibrahim Tommy, a human rights campaigner in Freetown. "But nobody can say anything."

Several journalists and intellectuals have been summoned to Parliament recently to defend their work, and last month a prominent radio host was locked up for 11 days after he asked some questions about the government's Ebola response. A government spokesman said the radio host had been jailed for other reasons, without specifying them, and that there was no repression in Sierra Leone.

The journalist, David Tam-Baryoh, called the experience terrifying.

"The government is getting very edgy," he said.

 

[BREWER]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/who-admits-they-were-talking-out-their.html

Monday, December 8, 2014
WHO Admits They Were Talking Out Their

LONDON (AP) — As health officials struggle to contain the world’s biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, their efforts are being complicated by another problem: bad data.

Having accurate numbers about an outbreak is essential not only to provide a realistic picture of the epidemic, but to determine effective control strategies. Dr. Bruce Aylward, who is leading the World Health Organization’s Ebola response, said it’s crucial to track every single Ebola patient in West Africa to stop the outbreak and that serious gaps remain in their data.

“As we move into the stage of hunting down the virus instead of just slowing the exponential growth, having good data is going to be at the heart of this,” Aylward said. “We are not there yet and this is something we definitely need to fix.”

“Decisions about prevention and treatment should be data-driven, but we really don’t have the data,” agreed Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.

A week ago, the World Health Organization insisted at a media briefing it had mostly met targets to isolate 70 percent of Ebola patients and bury 70 percent of victims safely in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. But two days later, WHO backtracked and said that data inconsistencies meant they really didn’t know how many patients were being isolated. Then the U.N. health agency also conceded that many of the safe burials were of people not actually killed by Ebola.

Aylward said not knowing exactly how many Ebola patients there are in hotspots like western Sierra Leone means health officials might miss potential contacts who could unknowingly cause a surge of cases. Compared to other epidemics like malaria, which is more seasonal and can fade away without huge control efforts, ending the Ebola outbreak will require extraordinary attention to detail.

“This outbreak started with one case and it will end with one case,” Aylward said. “If we can’t get 100 percent of the contacts of cases, we will not be on track to shut it down. Unfortunately at the moment, the data right now is not enough for us to get to zero.”

In West Africa, where health systems were already broken before Ebola struck, collecting data amid a raging outbreak has been challenging.

IOW, any resemblance between the press releases WHO has been shoveling out, and reality, is purely coincidental and entirely unintentional.
Notably, they waited until after their celebratory "We hit all our goals" party to announce they were completely full of it, and have been since about last April.

Posted by Aesop at 5:37 PM
Labels: Ebola

 

[Doomer Doug]

Brewer, the powers that be are lying to us about Ebola. <G>


http://right.is/ebola/2014/12/ebola-what-we-are-not-told-7.html


Ebola: What We Are Not Told
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:13


The World Health Organization has issued a bulletin which confirms that Ebola can spread via indirect contact with contaminated surfaces and aerosolized droplets produced from coughing or sneezing.

Unless a massive global response is undertaken, it seems Ebola is going to spiral out of control.



To prevent its spread to the US and other Western countries, Ebola must be stopped in its tracks in west Africa.



Infectious rates and deaths are expected by some to escalate from hundreds to thousands per week in the near future.



But we don’t know the true number of cases, many infected individuals simply do not go for treatment, some suspected of dying from the disease were simply buried without any diagnosis, and there are cases where lab results were not included in databases.



So have the general public been told all the facts on this epidemic? It would appear the answer is an emphatic NO!





The World Health Organization has issued a bulletin in early October confirming Ebola can spread via indirect contact with contaminated surfaces and aerosolized droplets produced from coughing or sneezing.

“…wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, who has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions or who vomits violently, could transmit the virus — over a short distance — to another nearby person,” “This could happen when virus-laden heavy droplets are directly propelled, by coughing or sneezing…”

And then this, “The Ebola virus can also be transmitted indirectly, by contact with previously contaminated surfaces and objects.”



However the CDC says it is impossible to become infected “by indirect means,” in other words, by touching a contaminated surface.


Africa is presenting a “possible, serious threat” to the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists.

After successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.



What will happen in cold climate areas where Ebola has already become established? If the Ebola virus thrives in cold temperatures and can spread, doesn’t that ring warning bells??



Watch this video to become informed!



video by SCGNews.com



On March 23, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea. On August 8, the WHO declared the epidemic to be a “public health emergency of international concern.



A third Sierra Leone doctor has died this week from Ebola, and according to health officials, he was the tenth doctor to contract the deadly disease.



Dr Aiah Solomon Konoyeima died on Nov 6, just one day after Ebola claimed the lives of two other doctors.



Dr Konoyeima, who worked at a children’s hospital in Freetown, the capital, tested positive to Ebola a fortnight ago.



Sierra Leone is seeing the fastest spread of the disease. At least 3,000 cases have appeared there since the outbreak began four months ago.

And it appears that the majority of new cases are coming from people who have visited the capital, Monrovia.



The current outbreak has caused infection in 17,500 people, with around 6,200 fatalities.



The World Health Organisation says the number of Ebola cases is doubling every three weeks and the world’s response needs to be 20 times greater than it is.

More info:http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1411471

 

[Doomer Doug]

I want his drugs!

"As we move into the phase of slowing down the expotental growth of Ebola." Um, Brewer, did Doomer Doug miss that phase?

See, Doomer Doug thought Ebola was totally out of control in West Africa, spreading widely, with tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of unknown cases, but here the man says "the expotental" growth has now been stopped.

Doomer Doug wants whatever psych drug that doctor is on, and DOOMER DOUG WANTS IT NOW, RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT!!!!!

 

[bw]

Doomer Doug wants whatever psych drug that doctor is on, and DOOMER DOUG WANTS IT NOW, RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT!!!!!

Typical instant-gratification response. Kids these days, what are we gonna do. Look Doug, this drug is under development and is currently restricted to upper levels of the government. It's important that they not be dismayed by reality, so this is a vital part of maintaining the Continuity Of Wishful Scenarios. When the production ramps up and costs come down, you'll get your allotment. Until then, you're just going to have to deal with the real world.

 

[BREWER]

"As we move into the phase of slowing down the expotental growth of Ebola." Um, Brewer, did Doomer Doug miss that phase?

See, Doomer Doug thought Ebola was totally out of control in West Africa, spreading widely, with tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of unknown cases, but here the man says "the expotental" growth has now been stopped.

Doomer Doug wants whatever psych drug that doctor is on, and DOOMER DOUG WANTS IT NOW, RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT!!!!!

Greetings, Doomer Doug: Regretably you, my friend, are relegated to the 'control group'.

"No such paliatives for you", says the medication-nazi regarding any 'blue pill' to allay your obvious delusions. There is no more Ebola...only as Marthanoir
stated so succintly, just 'Nobola'. Stop taking those 'red pills' immediately!

Yes, they are lying like a rug, and we the dedicated few know it, persist in our clinical derangement to debunk, and insist on truthfulness if not 'transparancy' that the "truth will out' someday soon. We have the moral high ground and little else. You've been spot on for a long time, keep making spots on their lying rug, Doug.

I like bw's term.... "Continuity Of Wishful Scenarios".

Take care. BREWER

 

[BREWER]

ETA: This one is just for you Doug...

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/sierra-leone-caught-you-you-lying-mofos.html

Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Sierra Leone: Caught You, You Lying Mofos!

(click to embiggen)

FREETOWN (UK Guardian) - They send in surveillance officers to investigate homes where there have been deaths. They don’t get too close. “They do a clinical assessment from afar,” says Parkinson. It’s all run with military precision by the Sierra Leonean army. Grim scorecards on whiteboards are positioned around the room – the cases, the treatment beds available and the bodies.

Burials of Ebola victims recorded week-by-week. Burials of Ebola victims recorded week-by-week. Photograph: Sarah Boseley

“For the last five weeks we have buried every body reported to us the same day,” says Parkinson. “But yesterday we left 43 bodies because the burial teams had not been paid.”

It keeps happening. Sometimes it’s the burial teams, sometimes the nurses and sometimes the ambulance workers. All are supposed to get extra danger money. Nobody seems to know whether the government can’t pay, won’t pay or is just bureaucratically bogged down. Whichever, it causes deadly delays. Two weeks ago, burial teams dumped highly infectious bodies – local people claimed as many as 15 – in the street outside a hospital gate in Kenema in the east of the country to make their point.


Nota bene that from Oct 24 - present, Sierra Leone has reported less than 600 Ebola victim deaths to WHO, as reflected in their stats column on the bottom of this Wikipedia page .

But as this snapshot from Sarah Boseley, author of the diary linked here recorded, Sierra Leone's Ebola crisis center recorded over 2600 burials by their own burial team members during this exact same time frame.

And, the story goes on to note, people are reportedly wandering off into the jungle to die, which persons aren't reflected in the burial numbers anywhere.

"People are afraid to report their numbers to the government. They are afraid to call the helpline. They are afraid they will be taken away to treatment centres and never see their families again. There are reports of people disappearing into the forest because they’d rather die with their family than be taken into a treatment site.”“It is a puzzle. We don’t know what it is. It is not a low death rate. It is probably the labs aren’t able to get swabs for all the dead bodies,” he says. That means they can’t be sure Ebola was the cause of death.

And there are many hidden deaths. “We have evidence that less than two-thirds of burials are being reported,” he said.

So they don't test the dead bodies, they simply cart them away post haste and shovel them under, same day.

Liberia is "solving" their crisis with a pencil eraser.
Sierra Leone is "solving" theirs with shovels.

Neither approach will do anything about Ebola, except insure it continues to spread in wider and wider circles.

So those 600-odd deaths? We have photographic evidence that the number of reported burials are 5-6X that many, and half as many again aren't being reported at all.

If we change Sierra Leone's death report numbers in accordance with that knowledge, we get an additional 4000 dead people, which brings their numbers much closer to reality as observed elsewhere. Then factor in the number of people who just wander out and die in the jungle (which ensures that the virus reservoir in the wild will be well-stocked for decades once various critters tear into the corpses).

And the lying m******f*****s sitting in those centers, their Western accomplices, and the morons in the media stand right in front of the tally boards they know to be lies, and just stare at them like deer in headlights, and can't seem to figure out what's going on.

Yeah, it's a real poser, you jackholes.

Posted by Aesop at 5:10 PM 1 comment:
Labels: cretin, Ebola, government

 

[BREWER]

Posted for fair use and discussion.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/uns-newest-fabulism.html

Tuesday, December 9, 2014
UN's Newest Fabulism


GENEVA ( Reuters) - Ebola is still spreading quickly in western Sierra Leone and deep in Guinea’s forested region, a senior UN official said on Tuesday.
“We know the outbreak is still flaming strongly in western Sierra Leone and some parts of the interior of Guinea. We can't rest, we still have to push on,” Nabarro told a news briefing in Geneva.
More foreign health workers are needed to combat the epidemic, especially in Sierra Leone where treatment centres are still opening and need expert staff, said David Nabarro, the UN Secretary General’s special envoy for Ebola.

So to recap from last Monday:
: the WHO hit all their targets for containing the outbreak
: except they didn't, because the numbers are ca-ca
: so the war is over, but they need more soldiers.

Got that?
And the minute our troops leave Liberia, they lose rapid lab turnaround, and even the official infection rate there skyrockets, and they still haven't figured out, in either Sierra Leone or Liberia, how to lure people into the ETUs now that everyone knows they're simply death houses (except for the 11% who survive despite zero medical intervention, just as they would at home). The only thing the ETUs stop is further spread by the infected, and the governments there are so mistrusted, the people would rather take their chances with Ebola than with what passes for government help there.

Word.
Posted by Aesop at 7:13 AM
Labels: Ebola

 

[Oreally]

Big time CYA by the WHO's Dr. Chan on BBC radio this AM.

[paraphrased]

Chan:
the situation is extremely serious. it may escape from africa.

?How did this get out of control. didn't the WHO say it was under control in April.

Chan:

we , and everybody else, screwed up. then june came and we saw that it was a problem.

?but, in august, the WHO said it would be controlled by november.

chan
facts on the ground continue to confound us.

?and

chan:
we have to work harder going forward to contain every infection

THEN . . .

the BBC began ANOTHER series by state media on confronting death, just like PBS here the past five weeks.

ummm . .