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Originally Posted by megansmomma  Actually, I was thinking about the first time that he went to the hospital. He probably sat in the waiting room for hours as a flu PT. No extra precautions were taken when he was examined and treated. He was symptomatic at that point when he was sent home. So the probablity that many people were exposed would be much higher. Then when he was picked up in an ambulance there would have been the paramedics/EMTs that were sent to the call. Obviously, they wouldn't have know the man had Ebola and treated him like any other transport. Even if he were brought into the ER by ambulance there was still staff that would have been exposed because he was not immediately under quarantine without a DX. So I could very well see a large number of people being exposed this way.
Now there is a second person that is being watched. Probably his GF since I saw her on Anderson Cooper 360 and she said that she slept in the same bed with him when he was symptomatic. |
Absolutely right! I did not even think about THAT time....I am stuck on the critically ill man, vomiting all over the sidewalk and ambulance.....and all of THOSE people exposed when he was contagious, interacting with everyone they have been in contact with....(I would imagine he walked up to the reception counter and touched it with "contaminated by droplets" hands, then went to the back for exam and was all over that bed and the rails.....followed by the next patient that went into that exam room....mercy!