https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:18:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914429 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:51:58 +0000 MrsSCB 1914429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Espion: Yikes, I bet people are being offered a ton of money. Hopefully patients' information remains private (or at least as private as possible in this situation). And the financial impact is no joke, I've seen the Dallas hospital's revenue has just plummeted.</p> <p>ETA: @looch: In terms of waste disposal, some of the waste from Dallas was incinerated at a facility near me because they had the only incinerator in the state capable of doing the job. It was sealed in big drums, driven over here (4-5 hours I believe) in a refrigerated vehicle, then placed in a 1500 degree incinerator. And anything left was then put in 1800 degrees.</p> <p>PS: I just got a news alert that the first Dallas nurse is better and will be going home, so yay!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914427 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:50:57 +0000 Espion 1914427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: Oh yeah, they have to incinerate everything. And if the don't do it in house, they MUST involve the company they subcontract out to. (I have to edit: I don't know if it could get into the water supply or survive in the water supply, but handling of waste is important. They're thinking the nurses in Dallas got infected taking OFF their personal protective equipment, and doing high risk things like suctioning airways.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914421 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:49:16 +0000 Espion 1914421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: It was a personal e-mail communication sent out to state epidemiologists. I'm not sure if it has made the leak to the media yet! Nothing "juicy" in it, other than things I didn't really think about, which are external to specific care. Like, make sure your hospital can absorb the financial impact, because cases get cancelled, patients refuse to go there, etc. Lock down the medical record because people are being offered obscene amounts of money to leak information and private details. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914410 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:45:04 +0000 looch 1914410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Espion: I hope this memo gets read! What worries me is the virus getting into the water supply because of improper waste handling...is this a legitimate concern? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914396 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:42:41 +0000 MrsSCB 1914396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Espion: Thanks, I'm going to see if I can track that down to read! One of the big things that stood out to me in those tweets was the NBC guy saying that it was sudden onset for him. Like he was fine and then he was suddenly running a fever. I've seen a lot of people saying (without any actual information) that the NYC doctor "must have been gradually getting sick for days." But from what I've seen it appears he wasn't out and about when he was having symptoms. He'd also been out of Guinea for almost two weeks, so I imagine he was starting to think he was in the clear. Poor guy :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914378 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:36:34 +0000 Espion 1914378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: @looch: Dallas actually sent out a lengthy memorandum touching on many things, including waste disposal. It is in interesting read and includes suggesting that the hospital house and feed the caregivers (core group, no hand-offs) so they don't fear for their own families or suffer the social stigma. </p> <p>He was checking his temperature twice a day and went in for evaluation when it hit 100.3. His most at risk contact is his fiancée, who is quarantined now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914330 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:22:46 +0000 MrsSCB 1914330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been reading the Twitter account of the NBC cameraman who has now been declared Ebola-free and I've been finding it very interesting. I particularly liked this tweet, but it's worth reading through more his timeline! <a href="https://twitter.com/unkyoka/status/525451044424523776" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/unkyoka/status/525451044424523776</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914314 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:17:42 +0000 snowjewelz 1914314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know how they can't just quarantine ppl coming from that region just to be safe. I mean, if I was coming back from there, I'd probably voluntarily isolate myself just to be sure! I wouldn't want to be responsible for starting an outbreak in my city! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914110 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:21:08 +0000 looch 1914110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I'll be honest, what worries me is the waste handling and disposal. I hope this unit really takes precautions and no one compromises themselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914109 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:20:25 +0000 mrbee 1914109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: they have a special unit for highly infectious TB patients. I read that they've been doing a lot of Ebola drills too... crossing fingers!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914108 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:20:14 +0000 looch 1914108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: PHEW! I was worried it didn't have a quarantine unit. I thought there were only a couple in the country that were really prepared, and they weren't in NYC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914103 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:17:39 +0000 Andrea 1914103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: apparently it is one of the hospitals designated as prepared to handle the disease.</p> <p>So happy to hear this news since I am in NYC all weekend, yay! Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1914097 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:10:15 +0000 looch 1914097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Bellvue Hospital though? I didn't understand that this hospital has the right facilities, or did I miss something? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913881 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:45:40 +0000 ChitownRo 1913881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I read in NYT that he took the subway Wednesday night...not just uber</p> <p>"Even as the authorities worked to confirm that Mr. Spencer was infected with Ebola, it emerged that he traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the subway on Wednesday night, when he went to a bowling alley, and then took a taxi home." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913806 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:02:55 +0000 IRunForFun 1913806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Luckily he hadn't been back to work yet! Or so I read. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913781 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:50:49 +0000 mrbee 1913781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: Yah totally! Someone should be paying his salary until he's been clear for 21 days. Especially since he's in healthcare and could infect patients! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913768 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:46:16 +0000 MrsSCB 1913768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: @mrbee: at least now the CDC will apparently be monitoring people who return from affected countries.(http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-prompts-cdc-monitor-travelers-coming-guinea-liberia/story?id=26376904) I do feel like that should have been common sense, though. I don't know, if I were returning from caring for patients in Liberia or Guinea I just think I'd want to make sure everything was good before being around other people, you know? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913763 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:43:48 +0000 mrbee 1913763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: It's tough because he probably wasn't getting paid much (if at all) and wanted to get back to work..:</p> <p>Crazy how a non profit seems to be fighting Ebola all by itself! Insane that the WHO and other global orgs aren't staffed up and funded to fight a pandemic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913761 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:43:05 +0000 Foodnerd81 1913761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: I agree with this-- though it still is pretty scary! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913754 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:41:31 +0000 photojane 1913754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: that's what I was thinking! I feel for him, and definitely hope he gets better, but I'm also hoping this opens some eyes. The doctors should know better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913750 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:36:58 +0000 mrbee 1913750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kind of worrisome that Doctors Without Borders just lets participating doctors back into their countries without a more formal quarantine period! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913743 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:31:46 +0000 photojane 1913743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: glad they're closed just in case! I wonder if they do a major scrubbing...? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913740 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:30:03 +0000 fairy 1913740@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They aren't contagious until the symptoms start, so the traveling he did beforehand shouldn't matter. Still worrisome for him though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913732 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:26:17 +0000 mrbee 1913732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: Yah hopefully the CDC team can trace his contacts quickly! Apparently he took an Uber... so there should be really good records of who was in the car with him, and who came after him.</p> <p>ETA: apparently the bowling alley was The Gutter in Williamsburg:</p> <p><a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/10/the_gutter_bowl.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/10/the_gutter_bowl.html</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913728 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:24:49 +0000 MrsSCB 1913728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's scary to think about, but I think we can take comfort in the fact that the Dallas patient was in contact with tons of people while symptomatic, and only the two nurses got it (not even his own family members did). Health care workers are always the most at risk :-( I'm wondering whether they'll keep him in NYC or send him right away to Atlanta or Nebraska given what happened in Dallas? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913723 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:22:04 +0000 photojane 1913723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: another article I read said he took a taxi to Brooklyn to go bowling the same night he came down with the fever. Another article said he was having symptoms before Wednesday night. It's crazy--we have no idea how many people came in contact with him both via the taxi and the bowling alley! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913722 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:21:53 +0000 Boheme 1913722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man :( I hope he gets good care in the hospital he's in so he can pull through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913715 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:19:19 +0000 mrbee 1913715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>New York has been preparing for this for years. Crossing fingers the system works and the outbreak is contained! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ebola-in-manhattan#post-1913710 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:17:10 +0000 photojane 1913710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/new-york-possible-ebola-case/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/new-york-possible-ebola-case/index.html</a></p> <p>"Investigators took the case seriously from the outset because it appeared the doctor didn't quarantine himself following his return, the law enforcement official said. The doctor traveled to Brooklyn and then back to Manhattan on Wednesday night, the official said."</p> <p>So scary! So many people in such close proximity! :shocked: </p>