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Small clusters of Ebola would completely overwhelm US hospitals - AP investigation
(NaturalNews) An assessment of the state of American healthcare compiled by The Associated Press (AP) has revealed that the nation is ill-prepared to deal with a large-scale Ebola outbreak. Even if the disease emerged in just small, isolated clusters, the existing medical infrastructure would quickly crumble, claims the press agency, leading to a cascading health crisis.
A team of AP reporters evaluated multiple indicators of preparedness at hospitals, including levels of training, available manpower, funding, emergency room conditions, available supplies, and infection control and protection for health workers. They also interviewed dozens of top experts in the field to gather educated opinions on the matter.
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American emergency rooms already overextended, say experts
As far as the nation's emergency rooms are concerned, many are already struggling with extended wait times. The American College of Emergency Physicians gave the U.S. a D-plus rating for quality of emergency care, which would like enter F territory fairly quickly in the event of an Ebola outbreak, or some other disease epidemic.
As it currently stands, the average patient typically has to wait 4.5 hours in an emergency room before being admitted to see a doctor. As many as 2 percent of patients get tired of waiting and leave before they are even seen. And a study by the CDC says that at least one-third of all U.S. hospitals have to divert ambulances to other hospitals because of emergency rooms that have exceeded capacity -- this is already happening at Bellevue Hospital in New York where Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047505_Ebola_outbreak_disease_clusters_US_hospitals.html#ixzz3I1tZafAw
Who do you believe, epidemiologists, virologists, Nobel laureates, MIT or a CDC Intelligence nurse?
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If Texas can build two state-of-the-art hospitals in Dallas and Galveston, can the U.S. Federal government build a quarantine facility, near a West Africa airport, for the people in West Africa? or should we just continue to let West Africans jump in a plane with other people, with a potentially highly infectious or unknown Ebola virus mutant?
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