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pnwmom

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11. We know that he had contact with very few people in the airport.

Reply to morningfog (Original post)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 03:06 AM

Oct 2014

And anyway, one or two lucky situations is not an acceptable sample size. No one put on quarantine or even self-observation for 21 days should be flying.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08/08/four-new-ebola-cases-in-nigeria-all-related-to-american-to-who-brought-virus-there/

Four new Ebola cases:

"They're all contacts of Patrick Sawyer," said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva. He said all are health care workers, cleaners or others at the hospital where Sawyer was taken after he collapsed in the airport following a flight from Liberia to Nigeria. "We know that he had contact with very few people at the airport," Hartl said.

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To put the risk to passengers on Vinson's flight in perspective, consider Patrick Sawyer [View all] morningfog Oct 2014 OP

I think the passengers are extremely low risk LeftInTX Oct 2014 #1

No doubt. This is going to be a long month. morningfog Oct 2014 #3

Hey, you keep that calm rationality out of here! You're robbing people of a good freak-out! arcane1 Oct 2014 #2

A rare post here as of late with a voice of reason thanks lunasun Oct 2014 #4

I, for one, am getting mightily tired SheilaT Oct 2014 #5

Recommended and kicked for reality!!!! HuckleB Oct 2014 #6

A good post, but isn't the problem really the logistics? Yo_Mama Oct 2014 #7

I'd be willing to bet that if this country gets any new Ebola cases... countryjake Oct 2014 #8

I can't help but wonder... SoapBox Oct 2014 #9

But do you get what the OP has said about Patrick Sawyer? countryjake Oct 2014 #10

I read that it was very difficult for them to trace all the people he was in contact with. pnwmom Oct 2014 #13

It was, but they did it. Trackers made 18,000 face-to-face visits. countryjake Oct 2014 #14

We know that he had contact with very few people in the airport. pnwmom Oct 2014 #11

I would be surprised if anyone on either of those flights caught it. Warren DeMontague Oct 2014 #12

Because it worked out ok one other time is not a solid basis for a theory or claim Lee-Lee Oct 2014 #15

These samples, however, are entirely consistent morningfog Oct 2014 #16