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Yo_Mama

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9. This was the first day she had an elevated temp
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 11:01 AM
Oct 2014

It wasn't even a fever. How do you self-quarantine when you find yourself away from home when that happens?

If she had gone to a hospital, they would have called the CDC. Would the hospital have done anything different if they got the same answer from the CDC? They would have sent her on.

We can't get Ebola testing for low risk exposures. We know. We've tried. We send them to the hospital, they don't get tested. So, we gave up. Because even if they are low-risk, if you send them to the hospital and they don't get tested, it is a risk to the health care system.

We don't know what to tell these people. Not everyone can afford to self-quarantine at home for three weeks waiting to see if they get sick, and those with small kids don't want to.

Everyone yelling at this nurse is living in a fantasy world. CDC controls all of this. If they tell you you're low-risk, you don't get tested and you're on your own.

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