Ebola-Stricken Dallas Nurse Nina Pham Expected to Be Moved to Maryland

[magical thyme]

Nina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola in Dallas, is expected to be moved to a National Institutes of Health isolation unit in Bethesda, Maryland, a federal official with direct knowledge of the plans told NBC News on Thursday.

The transfer could happen later Thursday, but the official cautioned that plans were evolving. Pham, 26, was diagnosed with the virus on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, flew to Dallas and later died.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-stricken-dallas-nurse-nina-pham-expected-be-moved-maryland-n227391

I'm taking this as an admission that they can't provide optimum, safe treatment at Dallas.

[Stallion]

1. Another Private Sector Failure

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[B2G]

2. Or anywhere else aside from the BSL4 hospitals

None of the hospitals are prepared.

None of them.

[magical thyme]

3. agreed.

as I've written before, there probably have been a couple thousand travelers with symptoms that were released in recent months who did not have Ebola. Somebody had to be first clusterfuck. Dallas just drew the short straw.

The nurses are heroes. They deserve the best treatment possible.

[sendero]

4. She'll probably get..

... the best possible care there, certainly better than where she is. Good for her.

[In_The_Wind]

5. They are moving her to a sterile environment. IMO: That's a good thing.

[magical thyme]

11. a facility designed to handle it, with staff trained to handle it in full biohazard gear nt.

[TwilightGardener]

6. A second obvious vote of "no confidence"--and well-deserved.

[KamaAina]

7. I'm taking this as an admission that NIH is one of four facilities equipped to handle Ebola

in the entire country. The others are Emory in Atlanta, Nebraska Medical Center in Lincoln, and Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, which hasn't come into play yet.

[magical thyme]

9. I had thought the 4th was a CDC facility down the road from Emory

but I probably remembered it wrong.

[KamaAina]

10. Well, the press keeps saying Emory

CDC is, in fact, right next to Emory.

[magical thyme]

12. Emory is definitely one of the 4.

I remembered the CDC next door as another one of the 4. That's what I'm probably remembering wrong. It's probably Emory, Nebraska, Montana and Bethesda.

CDC helped Emory get rid of its mountain of hazardous waste after Brantly.

[RiffRandell]

13. Good.

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I'd want to get out of that hospital ASAP, even if I was improving.

[uppityperson]

14. What, don't you trust them? Me neither.

Not the staff, but the whole way they treated this case has so many issues. I wonder how busy their lawyers are right now.

[RiffRandell]

15. Do you remember the statement she gave that was read

on the news? I was thinking to myself, did she really mean that? I thought it was strange, but she knows the people caring for her so maybe it's because they are her co-workers.

“I’m doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers” the statement from Pham read. “I am blessed by the support of family and friends and am blessed to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world here at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.”

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/ebola-patient-nina-pham-issues-statement/

[magical thyme]

16. from what I've read about her, I believe it

that seems to be her general attitude about life. She is very religious, and also very young and so likely more trusting.

She also is in the early phases of the disease and very possibly has never suffered anything more serious than a cold before.

Hopefully her beliefs will carry her through the worst of this to the other side.

[uppityperson]

18. In itself, it is a good statement. Too bad she didn't add administration who did not give us the

proper equipment and did not allow us treat MrDuncan properly from the getgo.

I have minimal problem with the doctors and nurses, beyond the inital ER visit discharging him.

[justiceischeap]

17. You know, I wasn't really bothered about Ebola until

I read this. I work about a mile from NIH. I wasn't aware they had an infectious disease unit there.

I'm still not really bothered by it but it's weird to know I'm about 1 mile away from the Ebola.

[jwirr]

19. The Texas hospital announced a day or so after the first nurse was identified that they would not be

taking any more ebola patients. She would have known this.

[magical thyme]

20. Nina Pham is the first nurse infected

so they weren't taking the 2nd nurse, who has already been shipped out.

Now they're not keeping the 1st nurse either.

[jwirr]

21. Thank you. I did not understand that they were also taking her. Hopefully she will be okay. All of

them are in our prayers.