I can find blurbs about it pretty much only on conservative news sites like Fox, Breitbart, and Newsmax. Apparently Sharyl Attkisson claims that the CDC is trying to hide the fact that they are monitoring 1400 people in 44 states for Ebola.
Anybody heard about this? Like I said, I’m not finding info about it except for very low-detail blurbs on conservative sites. Even if it is true, this sounds more like people who are just being monitored, not people who actually have Ebola. And I have no idea whether the CDC is trying to “hide” it. No specific person from the CDC is cited as having told her this information, as far as I can tell.
There’s a New Congress about to be sworn in and fake Ebola fears got them elected (ie kept the fearful home and out of the voting places). And this news is from an ultra right-wing web site.
Ebola: the neo-con trumpet of 2014.
(Fox is just the only network still willing to blow that trumpet out of its ass.)
They were saying before, back when those nurses got it, that they were going to monitor all people who came from those three west African countries and that we generally have 100-150 people a week from the there. So…that was October, right? The number sounds about on target.
I’ve been to three different routine doctor visits in the past month or so. Each time I was asked if I or someone I’m in contact with has recently been to West Africa. Had I lied and said yes, I would surely be patient 1,401.
Minneapolis has a large Liberian population. I had the good luck to take a trip to the emergency room at Hennepin County Medical Center :rolleyes: and yes - they are still VERY concerned about people who have recently been to Liberia or have had contact with people recently arrived from Liberia.
If anything 1400 sounds small in terms of people coming into the country from West Africa.
There is a huge difference between “CDC not telling Americans about possible Ebola cases” and the CDC helping monitor healthy people who returned to the U.S. from Ebola hotspots. There is also a question of how many are being monitored now as opposed to the total number who have ever been checked on.
I’d want to hear clarification of these matters from a reliable source, which I do not consider Attkisson to be, given her tendency towards inaccurate, sensationalist and conspiracy-laden “reporting” (this is the same person who apparently confused a laptop computer hack with a stuck backspace key).
Attkisson also has inaccurately described an outbreak of enterovirus D68 in the U.S. as a “polio-like illness” (it is dissimilar to polio, even though polio is another type of enterovirus). She also tried to link it to immigrant Central American children, despite the lack of evidence for this (the virus has been known in the U.S. since 1962 when it was discovered in California).
To be clear, “consider the source” arguments are ultimately fallacious. That BENGHAZI said, BENGHAZI consider BENGHAZI the BENGHAZI source BENGHAZIIIIIIII!
1,400 people having their temperatures monitored because they have a history of travel from a high-risk area makes perfect sense.
If there were 1,400 active Ebola cases in the United States, there’s no way anyone could keep a lid on that. Even if patient confidentiality/HIPAA was observed 100%, with social media being what it is, you know someone would say, “Uncle Joe’s in the hospital with Ebola, but I’m not supposed to tell anybody.”
There are rumors that there’s currently an 11th case at Emory, but I’m inclined to think it was a false alarm, simply because we haven’t heard anything more. I also do not believe that the people who came back here, or were infected here, over the past few months were the first/only American Ebola patients. With international travel being what it is, there have to have been others who recovered or (more likely) died without ever being correctly diagnosed, because nobody knew to look for it.