What about the extended family exposed to Ebola in Dallas?

[suffragette]

Younger Jallah and her children were also exposed to Ebola at her mother’s apartment.

But from what I can see, they were not included in the move to quarantine and are instead isolated in their apartment with few resources.

This, after her knowledgeable and conscientious actions led to Duncan’s second visit to the hospital and subsequent diagnosis and admission. Without her actions, this all could have been much worse.

Now she is wondering how she and her husband will provide food and pay rent.

How many people could get through a 21 day unplanned period away from work with no reassurances as to food or rent being taken care of?

These questions and conditions need addressing before more problems occur and seem similar to me to the cleaning and disposal issues, in that we are still unprepared for basic logistics of helping people and keeping this contained.



Good synopsis from Dallas News of report from WAPO about initial situation:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141004-family-exposed-to-ebola-patient-is-moved-while-cleanup-continues.ece

Troh’s daughter Youngor Jallah and her family, who also live in the apartment complex, have also been ordered by county officials to remain behind closed doors until the danger has passed.
Jallah told The Washington Post Thursday she suspected Duncan had Ebola after Texas Health Presbyterian missed warning signs and sent him home last week.
She made Duncan return to the hospital despite his protests on Sunday, she said, and warned paramedics to protect themselves around him.
Jallah even tried to disinfect the apartment where Duncan stayed, she told The Post, long before a hazmat team arrived to finish the job.


Link to the detailed WAPO article referenced above. MAny more details there:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-quarantined-relatives-in-us-ebola-case-extra-cautions-hope-and-prayer/2014/10/02/add51488-4a5f-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html


LA Times article from Oct 3rd detailing current situation. Much more info at link:
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81583586/


Jallah and her family have not been ordered to stay indoors, but because Jallah was with Duncan as his illness became critical, she has placed her family under voluntary confinement, hoping to avoid infecting neighbors or schoolmates.
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"We don't have no diapers, and we're running out of food," Jallah, 35, said as her children fretted and whirled around the apartment.


Jallah and her husband, Aaron Yah, 43, have been told to stay home from their jobs at nursing homes. Yah said a supervisor told him, "The county already called and said you're not allowed to go to work."
The couple decided they would keep the family inside until the time period for risk of developing Ebola symptoms passed: 21 days. They're doing so out of caution — and because they're not sure what health officials want them to do. They now worry how they'll make ends meet.

[uppityperson]

1. It would seem proper tp make sure they were provided for, rather like prisoners are

if they need to make a comparison.

As a Public Health matter, the basics should be covered.

[suffragette]

2. Absolutely agree with this

And they should be assured of this the minute they are asked to stay home.
But it doesn't sound like that happened.

[kestrel91316]

3. The 4 who got "quarantined" under armed guard got special treatment because they

immediately and repeatedly violated the rules of voluntary isolation. Everybody else is apparently cooperating (well except homeless dude, and he's in custody now, they'll hang onto him real tight now).

Voluntary isolation with daily or twice daily temperature checks, plus daily visual checks by CDC if indicated, works fine in the vast majority of people because they take it seriously. It's the ones who fail to take it seriously that need special measures.

Hospital isolation is only for those contacts who them become ill.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/monitoring-and-movement-of-persons-with-exposure.html

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/monitoring-and-movement-of-persons-with-exposure.html#modalIdString_exposure-table

[suffragette]

4. I appreciate your point kestrel. I am focusing here more on the need for resources and reassurances

For those who are in voluntary isolation.
I think it's important for these to be provided and for the family to be assured that they will have food and be able to pay their rent while they wait this out.
She seems to have been quite conscientious through this whole stressful situation. But it is clearly vey stressful and she and her husband need to think of the needs of their four children in addition to themselves.
The best way way to ensure people in this situation in the future don't bolt is to assure the proper treatment of these people now.

[kestrel91316]

7. Everybody who has been told to stay home and have no visitors is being well taken care of.

Housing assured, food and supplies brought in, daily visits from PH persons to talk about what they need and assuage their fears in addition to health checks. They are even getting help with homework (for the students), and of course income is secure because this 21 days is covered under the ADA.

These details have been in the news. I try to stick to NBC and NYT and LAT since they have all their ebola news together and the standard of reporting is higher than other sources.

[cwydro]

5. They did find the homeless guy? nt

[kestrel91316]

8. They did. he has been secured, and you can bet he's not getting out of their sight again.

Very relieved they found him as fast as they did.

[cwydro]

6. I think part of the reason for their new "undisclosed location"

is because the woman kept talking to Anderson Cooper, which really irked the authorities.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Their biggest problem right now

is to see if they develop symptoms, since they're just about at the time frame where they'd show up. If that happens, the rest of it is secondary.

I would imagine that a crowdfunding site would provide for them, especially for the stepdaughter who kept at least somewhat of a lid on this. Had she not sent him back to the hospital, who knows how many he might still be infecting? If it stays with him, then she's a hero, and should be able to recoup her financial losses, then her privacy will be her main concern.