2nd health care worker tests positive for Ebola at Dallas hospital
(CNN) -- A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, the state's health department said Wednesday.
The worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated, health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams said.
The preliminary Ebola test was done late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and the results came back around midnight. A second test will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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"Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the health department said. "The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus."
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Certainly not deserving of the best treatment. 
Unfortunately the PTB forgot that ebola cares not how much insurance and/or assets one has.
They're just as inexperienced and flying by the seat of their pants as the caregivers. Faulting the hospital for not having the appropriate knowledge or experience in the handling of an Ebola patient especially with no help from the CDC who was not monitoring or supervising anything that was happening which is part of the CDC's JOB and with the CDC convincing them there was no problem with the hospital caring for Mr. Duncan.
The hospital was getting their guidelines and direction from the CDC but without their HELP from them. They got a 43 some odd page powerpoint presentation from the CDC that they had staff watch believing in their ignorance that this was acceptable along with a protocol for PPE from the CDC that was woefully inadequate and didn't include disinfection. They were assured by the CDC that any nurse or doctor with no special training, drilling, practice, etc. was necessary. They didn't know what the hell they were doing, and the CDC pushed that it was all easy-peasy and nothing else was necessary. They didn't know that having so many people caring for an Ebola patient was a problem nor that having the staff caring for him also caring for other patients was a problem because the CDC dropped the ball on informing them of that as well, and didn't even see it as a problem anyway. They didn't know it was so high risk to put Mr. Duncan on a ventilator or have him doing kidney dialysis since once again the CDC didn't bother to tell them not to do stuff like that.
Most of the mess goes back to the CDC who is the agency relied on for what to do and what not to do and how to do it while monitoring ands supervising it all.
And for God's sake, if these too infected hospital workers are still being cared for in that same hospital then we are doomed to have an outbreak. Why the FUCK are they not being sent to one of the four hospitals that can care for them appropriately??? Sending in a special Ebola team is not good enough. They shouldn't be in that hospital at ALL when the four hospitals that can care for them appropriately in an appropriate environment has empty beds???
We could always nuke it just to be sure.
GOP talking points always seem to backfire on them.
1) Accept the medicaid expansion
2) Back the effort to get a Surgeon General appointed.
I suspect not...
that ANYONE should be fired from their job as a result of being quarantined is something that is SO 
really, I have to say--"only in America"....
But unfortunately you are probably right.
There is precious little trust left in this country. Dog eat dog.
