Dallas hospital workers learned how to control Ebola "as they went along"..........without the CDC...?!

CDC Director Thomas Frieden expressed regret Tuesday that his agency had not done more to help the hospital control the infection. He said that, from now on, “Ebola response teams” will travel within hours to any hospital in the United States with a confirmed Ebola case. Already, one of those teams is in Texas and has put in place a site-manager system, requiring that someone monitor the use of personal protective equipment.

“I wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the first patient was diagnosed,” he said. “That might have prevented this infection.”

I am dumbfounded. If you work in a dialysis clinic anywhere in the country, which is dealing with blood and with patients with hepatitis and hiv, you wear a face shield and full PPE as well as wash every surface with bleach as soon as it has secretions. Here you had someone with a disease which has killed 4000 people in africa and you learn as you go along?

Nursing is a high risk occupation. Nurses get sick, injured and even assaulted by patients somewhere everyday. 2 cases of this would not alarm me if it weren't so in the news. Try working in a nursing home during flu season. everyone is sick. BUt something this virulent should have been given more respect.It's not the flu and now there are multiple index cases. And out there somewhere someone else is sick they just haven't come in yet.