Ebola poses virtually no risk to most Americans, but hospital workers and their patients could face real danger if someone unknowingly infected with the deadly virus travels to the U.S. and comes to an emergency room here for care.
Many hospitals are poorly prepared to contain any pathogen. That’s why at least 75,000 people a year die from hospital infections. If hospitals can’t stop common infections like MRSA, C. diff and VRE, they can’t handle Ebola
via Many US hospitals not prepared for Ebola | Fox News.
If you are involved in the Gun Rights fight, you know that this is not only true but that the number is possibly low-ball as heck with the real figure somewhere around the 100K.
It is amazing that the most simple method of germ control, washing hands is not used by medical personnel. Now imagine this personnel dealing with a highly infectious disease and having to follow the strict protocol it demands.
When I was young, there was a comedian that joked about not going to hospitals because people died there….it is sad to know it is not a joke anymore.
~8,000 “Gun Deaths” per year, and the solution is to Ban All Guns, For Teh Childrenz!!!
75,000-100,000+ (literally, an order of magnitude more) deaths from infections transmitted via highly-trained medical professionals, in “safe”, “sterile” environments, and the solution is to send more people in, including children.
(Side note: you may not have been able to keep your doctor under Obamacare, but hospitals still can’t turn you away in emergencies.)
They’ve all gone Nucking Futz.