Fear of Our Gov't - US Ebola Patient was Vomiting When Initially Released from Hospital

Afraid of Gov't watchdogs, not for doing what is right, but for not being sensitive or PC. m/r

CNN: US Ebola Patient was Vomiting When Initially Released from Hospital

by FRANCES MARTEL 2 Oct 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old Liberian citizen identified as the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus on American soil, was vomiting upon arriving at the Texas hospital that initially let him go with antibiotics, according to a CNN report.

In a move that CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta described as inexcusable, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital initially let Duncan go with antibiotics, noting that he did not have any symptoms that were unique to Ebola and, as such, they chose to release him. 

The mistake appears increasingly outrageous when all evidence indicates that Duncan was honest about being from Monrovia, Liberia, one of the major centers of the Ebola outbreak, and that his appearance in the hospital necessarily means he himself identified symptoms of a serious illness within himself. The hospital has claimed that Duncan's admission of having been in Liberia recently was not "fully communicated" to the staff responsible for deciding whether to admit a patient. …

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