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In reply to the discussion: New CDC Risk categories for Ebola, Get your Info Here [View all]apples and oranges
(1,451 posts)20. Returning doctors and nurses fit into the "some risk" category and should therefore be monitored
if not quarantined. Their risk comes not only from "direct contact while using appropriate PPE with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic," but also from contact they may inadvertantly have in the community (outside the hospital):
Close contact in households, health care facilities, or community settings with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
Close contact is defined as being for a prolonged period of time while not wearing appropriate PPE within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) of a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
Close contact is defined as being for a prolonged period of time while not wearing appropriate PPE within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) of a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
They also fit all of the low risk criteria since the virus is so widespread:
Having been in a country with widespread Ebola virus transmission within the past 21 days and having had no known exposures
Having brief direct contact (e.g., shaking hands) while not wearing appropriate PPE, with a person with Ebola while the person was in the early stage of disease
Brief proximity, such as being in the same room for a brief period of time, with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
In countries without widespread Ebola virus transmission: direct contact while using appropriate PPE with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
Traveled on an aircraft with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic.
Having brief direct contact (e.g., shaking hands) while not wearing appropriate PPE, with a person with Ebola while the person was in the early stage of disease
Brief proximity, such as being in the same room for a brief period of time, with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
In countries without widespread Ebola virus transmission: direct contact while using appropriate PPE with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic
Traveled on an aircraft with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic.
Low risk does not mean no risk. If just one small child gets it, then goes to daycare, it would spread like wildfire and this country would not have the resources to care for 100+ sick kids (and their caregivers).
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But the Z in zucchini is on the other side of the alphabet from the E in Ebola. Chow down!
freshwest
Oct 2014
#8
1 kick to not mock anyone or joke. This is a serious situatuin, please consider
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#12
I'm not kicking to mock or joke, either. Just kicking to keep your OP up on the page.
freshwest
Oct 2014
#14
Returning doctors and nurses fit into the "some risk" category and should therefore be monitored
apples and oranges
Oct 2014
#20
And the recommendation IS they monitor themselves, in some cases but not all, quarantine themselves
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#27
so i looked further. the bowlers, train riders would have been four, regarding spencer. nt
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#28
So far it I would say #2, unless he says otherwise. "Some risk" means some risk, not no risk. Even
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#29