Should Center for Disease Control (CDC) Director Tom Frieden Be Fired?

[TorchTheWitch]

29. I want to see his ass in a sling

Fired isn't anywhere good enough. The CDC is THE US authority on infection control, preparedness, protocols, etc. yet there's no question the CDC had it's head in their ass. They treated a biosafety level 4 infected patient with protocols for about a level 2.

Protective clothing only called for mask or face shield with no total head covering nor foot coverings nor disinfection of protective clothing before removing it. There was no supervision of workers that were untrained, and inexpert in utilizing the protective clothing to check for tears, gaps, etc., to make sure they were fully covered. There was no instruction to not perform high risk procedures on an end of life patient such as dialysis or ventilator. There was no instruction to use a minimum of caregivers and that those caregivers should not be also giving care to other patients. There was no instruction of the proper handling and destruction of waste materials or the handling of infectious samples from the patient nor the physical protection of those who handled the samples. They did not monitor and supervise the treatment and allowed the hospital to set up a makeshift Ebola ward out of the ICU that wasn't and couldn't be contained, there was no thought to whether or not the ICU had negative airflow or the use of suction that went into a standard receptacle, etc. There was no instruction for disinfecting the floor/wall areas where caregivers walked nor the disinfection of the bottoms of their shoes.

They claimed that any hospital could safely care for an Ebola patient, assured this hospital it could, and relied far too heavily on the inadequate protective clothing without disinfection as if it were an Ebola brick wall and so much so that despite these caregivers being the most exposed of anyone else since Mr. Duncan fell ill they didn't bother to quarantine or monitor their health.

Yet every single American infected with Ebola was flown to one of the nation's four hospitals equipped, prepared and staffed to handle a biosafety level 4 infected patient. Why in heaven's name did they not also do the same with Mr. Duncan? Why did they ignore complaints from experts in biosafety level 4 care and handling telling them they were screwing it up? Why else than to use Mr. Duncan, the Dallas hospital and all its staff as well as visitors and other patients as human guinea pigs as an experiment either in the hope to prove that any hospital could care successfully for a biosafety level 4 infected patient or to prove that our hospitals are woefully unprepared? Just what the hell was the CDC's point for so enormously fucking it up when THEY are supposed to be the nation's experts and gambled with so many peoples' lives?

Oh yes, the hospital enormously screwed up, but they did it having no expertise of their own and under the direction of and with the assurances of the CDC - THE nation's expert in infectious disease, preparedness and protocols.