Our first responders dont trust you Dr. Frieden/CDC or you Dr. Fauci/NIAID or the NIH, homeland security, etc. Its about time, our nations governors are taking leadership! Health professionals say Gov. Rick Scotts move Saturday to sign an executive order mandating twice-daily, 21-day health monitoring for people returning from CDC-designated areas affected by deadly Ebola is exactly the shoe that fits. Florida needs to stay ahead of the crisis, they say, and Scott knows it. The governor has really taken a strong, decisive step to protect the safety, health and well-being of Florida citizens, emergency room attendant Carlos Juan Diaz of Coral Gables told Sunshine State News. Florida is an international crossroads, a melting pot where most national airlines service passengers. While Florida does not have an Ebola case, the governor signed the order out of an abundance of caution and the lack of action from the Centers for Disease Control. Scott said the monitoring will help the state Department of Health prevent the spread of the deadly disease. His mandate for the DOH is patterned after the Department of Defense’s post-deployment requirements for military men and women deployed in Ebola-affected areas. In a written statement Saturday, Scott said, “This executive order will give the Florida Department of Health the authority they need to conduct 21-day health monitoring and risk assessments for all those who have returned or will return to Florida from the CDC-designated Ebola-affected areas of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. We have asked the CDC to identify the risk levels of all returning individuals from these areas, but they have not provided that information. Therefore, we are moving quickly to require the four individuals who have returned to Florida already – and anyone in the future who will return to Florida from an Ebola area – to take part in twice daily 21-day health evaluations with DOH personnel...We are using what information is available to our Department of Health through the CDC’s Epi-X Web-based system, which monitors individuals who travel to areas with infectious diseases, including Ebola. Using this system, we know that four individuals have already returned to Florida after traveling to Ebola-affected areas...We will take further action to protect the health of these individuals, and our communities, if we determine any of them are at a ‘high risk’ of contracting the disease. Further action by the Florida Department of Health will include mandatory quarantine of anyone we suspect is at high risk of testing positive for Ebola due to the type of contact they had with the disease. ... Again, we are glad we do not have a case of Ebola in Florida, but we will continue to do everything in our power to ensure we never do.” Said Fort Pierce registered nurse Carole Wendover, Were grateful to the governor. Pray God, this terrible disease doesnt reach our people. But Im so glad Florida is erring on the side of caution. Members of National Nurses United, though they could not be reached Saturday, must appreciate Scotts attention to their plight. They made a public plea to their employers Friday in front of a Fort Lauderdale building, calling for standardized protective gear and processes at all South Florida hospitals. “Because there’s no hospital here that’s prepared for Ebola,” Gillian Brown of National Nurses United told CBS News. “We haven’t gotten hands-on effective training that we need to take care of any patient that walks into the ER. That’s what this is about.” sunshinestatenews/story/ebola-crisis-health-professionals-give-gov-rick-scotts-executive-order-thumbs
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:41:27 +0000
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