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pnwmom

(110,291 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2014, 08:39 PM Oct 2014

Anonymous donor has provided a home to the Ebola relatives in a gated community. [View all]

Good for the donor.

But why the city couldn't have used its own funds to rent property for these people, instead of trapping them in the contaminated apartment for almost a week, still isn't clear to me.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/03/family-relocated-from-apartment-where-ebola-patient-stayed/16677643/

Friday afternoon, however, the city confirmed the family has been relocated from the apartment and moved into a private residence in Dallas County.

A city official told ABC News the home is in a gated community and was donated by a person who wants to remain anonymous. City officials had a hard time finding anyone willing to let the family stay in their home because of health concerns.

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Prior to the scheduled cleanup, county officials said soiled bedding and other contaminated items were placed in plastic bags and remained inside the apartment with quarantined family members.

When cleaning crews entered the apartment, they learned Duncan had slept on every mattress in the apartment during his time there, raising further questions about just how much the family was exposed to the Ebola virus in his time there and why it took so long to get a cleaning crew into the residence.

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Anonymous donor has provided a home to the Ebola relatives in a gated community. [View all] pnwmom Oct 2014 OP

Good and I have a difficult time being polite in expressing my anger at it taking so long uppityperson Oct 2014 #1

I missed that particular factoid. Geez. What a disaster this has been. pnwmom Oct 2014 #2

OMG he did not do that!?!?!?!!? WHY??? kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #4

Sick people don't always think clearly. nt. Mariana Oct 2014 #23

True. But everybody in that apartment had to be thinking EBOLAEBOLAEBOLA kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #28

How do you know they didn't pour bleach or lysol? How do you know what everyone was uppityperson Oct 2014 #29

I don't care if they're in the presidential suite at the freaking Hilton. All I care is that they kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #3

Indeed, making them stay in a contaminated apartment for days exposed and endangered them a lot. uppityperson Oct 2014 #5

We should care. By keeping them in the contaminated apartment for days, pnwmom Oct 2014 #6

I understand doing it the first day, until alternate arrangements could be made. But beyond that kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #10

I believe that was the problem..... VanillaRhapsody Oct 2014 #30

It feels more like the response of overwhelmed health professionals Generic Other Oct 2014 #37

Thank you. I just get tired of the misinformation, the pooh-poohers, and kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #39

CNN interview with the female relative cwydro Oct 2014 #7

And I think she helped bag up his stuff. So she's certainly at risk. pnwmom Oct 2014 #8

If she knows she was exposed, why has she not come forward to speak to the hordes of CDC personnel kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #15

CDC should have been contacting her. LisaL Oct 2014 #18

She has been talking to them and they are following her. She's somewhere on the list. pnwmom Oct 2014 #31

Isn't the rule watch for symptoms. They are not contagious until symptoms. seabeyond Oct 2014 #33

Yes, but she was exposed as much as some of the people in the other apartment. pnwmom Oct 2014 #34

Why did it have to come to this? ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #9

Good question BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #11

Because they are asymptomatic and, hence, cannot transmit Ebola. n/t ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #13

But almost anywhere would have been better for them than being trapped in the pnwmom Oct 2014 #32

I can't argue with that. ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #35

We don't take up hospital beds with asymptomatic people who may very well never get ill. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #14

But perhaps an exception for a disease they are tying to contain might be an exception BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #16

it's not penny pinching. hospitals are not hotels. magical thyme Oct 2014 #40

Repeated breaking of isolation protocols? I heard that they sent a child to school. Were there other jwirr Oct 2014 #17

The reports I saw used the word "violations" without specifying what they were. pnwmom Oct 2014 #22

Sending a child to school who had contact with an ebola patient kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #24

It's the local public health's responsibility. They are the miserable failures in this. CDC is there kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #12

I read somewhere that the CDC hired "The Good Guys." pnwmom Oct 2014 #20

I suspect they did it because the locals didn't think to or said it wasn't necessary. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #25

Same problem FEMA had after Sandy- everyone kept expecting FEMA to do everything KittyWampus Oct 2014 #21

Yep. CDC is not your mother. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #27

Except you are in earthquake country Generic Other Oct 2014 #38

They'll spend as much money as they can telling you how prepared they are valerief Oct 2014 #19

Yay for people who care flamingdem Oct 2014 #26

I like the Dallas County judge Gothmog Oct 2014 #36