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In reply to the discussion: Ebola Victim's Nephew: I Had to Call CDC [View all]Sancho
(9,073 posts)so they likely have an unwritten policy of giving an antibiotic and pain killer to anyone who can still walk and sending them out the door.
It's clear they didn't really diagnosis anything or even look at the history (except the part with no US insurance card). Texas is like Florida - did not accept federal medicaid - so they don't want anyone who will cost them $$'s.
If one of those kids caught ebola and was in an early stage of incubation (2 to 21 days), it's still possible they could have transferred it around a school.
I'd like to see the patient record and diagnosis, which the hospital will never reveal and has probably been altered by now anyway. I'll bet they spent 2 minutes to decide he wasn't on the verge of a heart attack, CYA a prescription, and moved him out. No one cared why he was sick - no insurance!!