Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the CDC’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, on Sunday said that the health care worker who contracted Ebola after caring for the Dallas patient with the virus must have violated protocol.
“Well, certainly there have to have been an inadvertent, innocent breach of the protocol of taking care of a patient within the personal protective equipment. That extremely rarely happens,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.”
The worker was in full protective gear while caring for the Ebola patient, and the CDC is investigating what went wrong, according to Fauci.
No doubt that was the cause of transmission. Most health care workers have had little training or no prior experience with any rarely used protective protocols such as these.
Just wiping the sweat off one’s face after accidentally touching the outside of the space-suit-like garment after treating the patient could cause this.
Well, duh.
But the thing is: If I know Texas, and if I know Fox, and if I know the national press, this will all turn out to be Obama’s fault. Amiright?
Of course it will.
Feverish minds are already drafting headlines: “Diffident Obama stood by while Ebola entered the US” “Rudderless CDC struggles to control outbreak while Obama Administration watches”.
Rinse. Repeat.
Hey! Don’t spread their meme. After all this one’s on Perry. It’s his state’s medical system and he’s refused Texas’s share of the tax funds collected by the Feds and allocated to medical care.
If this hospital hadn’t had to be providing ‘free’ emergency care, they might have had the funds for better training.
And they can’t even blame President Obama for failing to cram the funds down Texas’s throat since the courts blocked the inducements to take the funds.
So it’s Obama’s fault that he didn’t act like a king and force Medicare down the throats of the state of Texas?
Yet Obama has been acting like a king because Repubs say so.
AARGH!