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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Oct 25 11:10:51 2014, in response to Re: NY/NJ Erect Maginot Line Against Ebola, posted by train dude on Sat Oct 25 08:30:36 2014. So then you feel that it would be more cost effective not to screen & quarantine?There are lots of steps between a complete quarantine and completely ignoring the danger. Just because somebody does a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis for a complete quarantine does not mean he favors ignoring the danger. The medical professionals had time to devise protocols to deal with this problem. They were able to tailor the protocol with Ebola's unique transmission vector. This allowed them to forego some of the costly procedures necessary to combat a more easily communicable disease. Ebola isn't communicable until the person is very sick. The protocol did a temperature screening at entry to verify that the person wasn't already sick. It then assumed that an infected person would contact the US health care system, if he became sick and before he became very sick. The health care system would then isolate him to prevent the spread to others. The first two parts of the protocol worked for the two Ebola cases. The Dallas health care system fell down on the third part of the protocol. NYC's health care system has not. Have you shared your thoughts with mayor diblasio? I did not. Apparantly, neither did Cuomo and Christie. Link. Within the city, an unexpected policy shift by Mr. Cuomo on Friday appeared to open up a public divide between the governor and the administration of Mr. de Blasio, a fellow Democrat. The city’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, was not informed in advance of the Cuomo-Christie mandatory quarantine order and was “furious,” a senior city official who spoke to her said. |
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