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Originally Posted by travis3000
The US needs to get a plan in action ASAP. Everyone needs to get on the same page so this can be dealt with properly. Here's what needs to be done
1. Initiate a travel ban for all passengers traveling to and from these west Africa countries. This includes direct and in direct flights. Nobody who's been in Guinea, Sierra Leon, or Liberia can fly here. Do not ban flights for supplies, man power, etc. Just on regular people traveling for leisure. This will ensure supplies still go to these countries.
2. Develop stringent protocols for EVERY nurse to follow. This includes education, safety protocols, etc. No nurse should feel like they are winging it. Make sure they have all the right clothes, protective gear, etc.
3. Isolate EVERY contact of any ebola patient and monitor them. They cannot be allowed to leave the area at all.
4. Every nurse who cares for an Ebola patient can NEVER leave the area, and must be monitored for the 21 days.
5. Limit the number of nurses who care for Ebola patients
6. Focus on sending Ebola patients to quarantine centres with Ebola experts who are used to treating the disease
7. If needed, issue curfews for exposed areas (it worked in Nigeria)
If this was followed, Ebola would have 0 chance and be squashed.
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I'm a physician and I agree with all of your recommendations. If we want to stop this thing dead in it's tracks, we need some draconian solutions.
The most important thing is to make sure that Ebola patients are only treated in a small handful of recognized expert treatment facilities. In Canada, there should be no more than 2-3 designated Ebola treatment centres. Any newly diagnosed patients would have to be transported to these centres for treatment.
All staff in these centres need rigorous training in established treatment protocols. The staff should be dedicated to treating Ebola patients only, and should have no contact with other patients. The staff need to be monitored rigorously, and if there is even the slightest hint that they could have been directly exposed to the virus then there should be a mandatory 21 day quarantine, strictly enforced and completely involuntary, under armed guard if necessary. No airplane junkets to Cleveland and back are to be allowed!!!
This may seem draconian, but this is a serious situation, and if we don't want this virus to get into the broader community, strict rules are necessary. To quote Spock, the good of the many outweighs the good of the few (or the one).