To All the A**holes who are Insulting the Flying Ebola Nurse: Shut Your F***ing Faces.

[KitSileya]

217. No not each and every one of them. But the ones her patients had?

You damn well know she should know how they are transmitted. She would be an awful nurse if she didn't. As would any doctor who treated him. And the CDC. The hospital and the CDC is definitely, no doubts about it, to blame for Pham and Vinson being infected. They handled the matter inadequately - the CDC with not ensuring that their guidelines were the most stringent possible wrt to protective gear, and the hospital for not providing their employees with adequate protective gear, even if they had to fly it in from somewhere, and quarantining both patient and the health care givers who had cared for him with inadequate gear.

It's a matter of reading on the internet - checking websites and seeing news broadcasts from other countries - to see it. Heck, the BBC World Service explained it in less than one minute - my newspaper had a picture of a mural of how ebola infects for those who cannot read. Bodily fluids - any contact with bodily fluids exposes you to the virus. That means any skin contact with bodily fluids. That means inhalation or ingestion of bodily fluids - including projectile bodily fluids, such as vomit and diarrhea. That means touching protective gear with bodily fluids on them - even bodily fluids not visible to the naked eye - exposes you to risk. That means that if there was any chance that any part of her was exposed to bodily fluids, she was at risk. Her gear wasn't adequate. The nurses knew it. they taped their throats because the gear didn't cover them properly. Pham got sick, and Vinson knew it by the second plane ride. And so she is to blame for risking others after she was put at risk herself by her employer.