Texas health officials ban travel by Ebola health workers

[underpants]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/17/texas-ebola-health-care-workers-travel-ban/17424465/

Texas health officials have ordered any person who entered the room of the first Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital not to travel by public transport, including planes ship, buses or trains, or visit groceries, restaurants or theaters for 21 days, until the danger of developing Ebola has passed.

The instructions, issued by the Texas Department of State Health Service late Thursday, cover more than 70 health workers involved in providing care for Thomas Duncan, the Liberian national who became the first patient to test positive for Ebola in the United States.

[FSogol]

1. Texas health officials close barn door after cow got out

Keep up the good werk, Perry-appointed health officials!

[underpants]

3. Exactly. Yikes! A cruise ship? Those are horribly unclean as it is

[FSogol]

4. Carnival Cruise lines will respond by having a sale! Great rates for cabins on the poop deck. n/t

[KingCharlemagne]

7. Brilliant bon mot! My salute! (no text)

[Fumesucker]

2. And the next thing they do will be some kind of achievement award for the hospital management

I'm also wondering if they are banned from working...

[Voice for Peace]

5. This is a good step. We're quick to blame mistakes and unreadiness, but who knew?

Seriously. It's not as though there was a presidential security
briefing saying "Ebola determined to get into USA"

I think there is a rapid and kind of scary learning curve
for everybody at the edge of this crisis, and nobody needs
blame or cynicism, just support, encouragement.

[kestrel91316]

8. IMHO those hospital administrators who completely ignored CDC guidelines on Ebola need

to be slapped silly and thrown in jail.

[City Lights]

6. Gee, it's about time! nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Also shows why hospitals cannot handle a large outbreak.

One patient = many staff who have to isolate.
Now there are TWO more patients after the death of Duncan,= staff who treat them will have to isolate.
That can empty a hospital of workers pretty quickly.
Not to mention the people who have to monitor the isolated staff, and feed them,etc.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Utterly pathetic that this wasn't issued once they were aware they

knew one of their hospitals was dealing with a patient that actually had ebola.

FREEDUMB!!1!1!

[LostInAnomie]

11. It's amazing that it takes government orders...

... to get some health care professionals to act responsibly. Now, they don't have any excuse or agency to blame when they do something stupid.

[uppityperson]

12. k&r for cya betteer late than never but wtf