To the Director of the CDC: Sir, it is a very easy thing to blame the nurse in Dallas for becoming infected with Ebola without any real proof. Your swift move to assign the blame to the nurse reminds me of how so many people blame the victim of rape for the act that victimizes her : Well, if she hadnt been dressed like **that** or She shouldnt have been walking there alone! Your statement that the nurse failed to follow protocol when removing her gear, without any proof to support it, is blaming the victim: She must have been sloppy in her work, and now she is infected with Ebola. What does she expect? Your claims are a very convenient response to the question, How did this infection occur in an American hospital that has been touted as highly trained to respond to the Ebola crisis? The CDC claims it has sent training materials to ALL hospitals--Sir, an emailed flyer or an emailed web address directing busy professionals to a flow chart or a list is NOT training. I am a teacher, not a health care professional, but I work for a bureaucracy and I know about that sort of training -- it is a massive fail! You and I both know the nurses, technicians, CNAs, and doctors in Dallas (and elsewhere) havent been trained adequately how to deal with EBOLA! Shame on the CDC and the administrators for putting our front-line health care workers, EMTs, and other brave, compassionate personnel in harms way, with INADEQUATE protective gear (the CDC muckety-mucks have full protective gear, including dedicated O2 supplies-- why is that if a Dollar Store paper mask is adequate protection and the Ebola virus is not suspended in aerosolized saliva and sputum particles?) and no actual, sustained, drill-and-practice training?
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:48:34 +0000
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