Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Nurse cleared from Ebola
Just recently Amber Vinson, a nurse that contracted the Ebola virus while caring for a patient in Texas was released from quarantine care. She flew to Cleveland after she had been in Texas where she contracted the virus. Now she is released from the hospital and able to join her family again. However, in Ohio alone there are 163 people being examined for coming in contact with Amber while she had the virus. More and more health workers are needed in West Africa to fight the virus that has already killed more than 10,000 West Africans. Kaci Hickox a volunteer doctor also has contracted the disease and is under close watch and quarantine in New Jersey. Hickox is legally fighting her obligated detainment, saying she is supposedly cleared of the virus and wishes to return to the world. Her lawyers are saying that she is a good person for volunteering and does not deserve to be detain for it. I personally am in favor of any restrictions that the government puts on anyone who has possibly come in contact with the virus. We need to think about the safety of our nation as a whole.
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Think about making your feelings and your personality more of a presence here. The blog is well-written, but it's almost entirely background. I don't get to your controversial opinion on it until the end, and even then it's just two sentences. Give me something to think/talk/complain about!
ReplyDeleteHey Justin,
ReplyDeleteI like this blog; it's timely and well-written.
I, however, strongly disagree with your suggestions that we should have stronger restrictions, and for two reasons.
One, stronger restrictions--quarantines, for example--are superfluous and don't serve a purpose. Ebola isn't contagious until folks who have it are showing symptoms; thus, close and direct examination by local heath-care workers -- as the CDC has implemented--for 21 days--the time period that symptoms arise -- are sufficient.
Second, the heavy restrictions discourage volunteer workers from volunteering to travel to infected countries to combat the disease at its most active areas, which has been highly stressed by various US public health officials.
In short, highly restrictive policies are, at best, superfluous--and, at worst, counter-productive.