Nurses to Jerry Brown: California isn’t ready for Ebola

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Source: Sacramento Bee

The state’s largest nurses union said Tuesday that no California hospital is prepared to treat an Ebola patient, pressing Gov. Jerry Brown to require increased training and protective equipment for nurses.

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RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United, said California hospitals have failed to provide adequate training or equipment to nurses, a claim hospitals disputed.

“None of the hospitals in California are prepared,” DeMoro said after meeting with Brown. “We cannot name a hospital that we feel comfortable with, for patients in the state of California to attempt to have the appropriate response in an Ebola situation.”

Speaking at a news conference outside Brown’s offices at the Capitol, DeMoro said, “The deficiencies in the systems in California are outrageous.”

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Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3206175.html

[Omaha Steve]

1. To the union nurses

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3. Sign their petition to Obama!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025700315

[Scairp]

2. Well

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That works out because I believe the very last thing we need to worry about is goddamned Ebola. This hysteria is out of hand entirely. I'm more concerned about the dwindling water resources than an exotic African disease.

[christx30]

4. I saw a funny meme online:

"More Americans have been married to Kim kardashian than have died of Ebola."
But I wish HIV (an actual danger) had been taken half as seriously by the government in the 80's as the media is treating Ebola. You know, actually doing something about it instead of laughing about it and making snide remarks about the 'gay plague'. That AIDS quilt would probably be 1/10th the size it is today.

[Scairp]

5. Yes I agree

But an exotic disease from Africa sells better than a disease transmitted by gay sex. Pharmaceutical companies really didn't give a shit for a long time. It's a disgrace.