No it’s not. If a health care worker who is handling her PHI leaks it then it’s a HIPAA violation. If the press gets the info through other means, then it’s not. HIPAA only applies to health care workers.
Last time they called it the Patriot Act i believe Mr Hub. However I dont think people should be locked up when entering western countries, they should be barred from travel altogether. Fuck em, not worth the risk until its being handled a bit better than this. Fuck the journalists as well, that crazy bullshit “flu kills 40k people a year, lets not take this shit as serious” had me rolling about on the ground.
Its pretty simple, if you wanna volunteer yourself to helping/reporting over in Africa, then pack 2 bags niggas and dont come back until its been sorted out.
examples demonstrating reversibility?
Awww man they actually killed the dog.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/excalibur-spanish-ebola-patient-dog-euthanised
Global outcry huh, seems a bit of an excessive title over a dog haha, like the dog has more supporters than the people suffering fromt his shit.
I will never understand that side of humanity
Here is some positive news for ya then Furious
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/dallas-nurse-ebola-transfusion-kent-brantly
I would donate her some of my fluids too.
If caught very early on the way the currently treat it in Africa is much the same way. They hook you up to IVs to keep your body hydrated as the virus burns you inside out, administer blood transfusions to keep you topped up as you bleed all over the place and put you on dialysis for when your kidneys pack in. A lot of people are beating it this way en lieu of an actual medicine that will take Ebola head on. Seems the best cure may come from good old fashion human resistance training.
saw a ghanian article claiming ebola isnt a virus and is caused by vaccinations from red cross. doubt how true or viable that is…
It a the fear mongering g that sows that sort of behavior.
One could make the argument, and people often do, that due to the threat and uncertainties of : terorism and crime. That we ought be willing to sacrifice more and more to ensure our survival. What makes that conclusion any more different than this one?
The only thing warranted is the fear of sending soldiers to Africa, which is the biggest liability. Shutting down flights wouldn’t work unless the entire international community agrees to it, or releasing “information” isn’t warranted.
Transmission rate is still 2.5 people per person, although the mortality raised to 70% from 50% over the weekened in Sierra Leone. It’s changing, or more likely the health services are getting worse.
Nah man the article completely denied its existence and said ebola wasn’t even a virus, it was strictly a vaccination thing. Doesn’t really make logical sense but who knows
anyway the problem with temperature screening at airports is that if someones incubating at the time and doesn’t have a fever, and goes home, then develops symptoms, a lot of Africans who come to London (not being racist this is from experience,) aren’t exactly rational in mindset, and would do something like get on a packed London bus with Ebola to go to their GP surgery to shout at them.
to be fair thats just what a lot of people in south london would do, and unfortunately for the ebola case, we have a huge concentration of Africans in one place.
The illegal accessing and release of this information is a HIPAA violation. You’re helping me out by explaining it with more detail.
I’ve stated it in a more recent post that the hospital should be investigated (audited) for a violation because somehow this information got out to the public and possibly into the wrong hands.
Example: A hospital in Nebraska fired two employees for inappropriately accessing an Ebola patient’s records - http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/nebraska-med-center-fires-two-employees-violating-ebola-patient-s-privacy
If the family decided to release the patient’s name, then it is not a HIPAA violation because they aren’t a covered entity like a medical clinic or healthcare workers. This brings up new issues and questions in regards to privacy rights and the public’s right to know aka “for the greater good.”
Critical Mass is approaching.
WHO: New Ebola Cases Could Be Up To 10,000 Per Week In 2 Months
[details=Spoiler]GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the grim figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, WHO had estimated the death rate at around 50 percent.
Aylward said the 70 percent death rate was “a high mortality disease” in any circumstance and that the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to get sick people isolated and provide treatment as early as possible.
He told reporters that if the world’s response to the Ebola crisis isn’t stepped up within 60 days, “a lot more people will die” and there will be a huge need to deal with the spiraling numbers of cases.
For the last four weeks, there’s been about 1,000 new cases per week — including suspected, confirmed and probable cases, he said, adding that the U.N. health agency is aiming to get 70 percent of cases isolated within two months to reverse the outbreak.
WHO increased its Ebola death toll tally to 4,447 people on Tuesday, nearly all of them in West Africa, from 8,914 cases.
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been hardest hit nations in the current outbreak. Aylward said WHO was very concerned about the continued spread of Ebola in the three countries’ capital cities —Freetown, Conakry and Monrovia.
He said the agency was still focused on trying to treat Ebola patients, despite the huge demands on the broken health systems in West Africa.
“It would be horrifically unethical to say that we’re just going to isolate people,” he said, noting that new strategies like handing out protective equipment to families and setting up very basic clinics — without much treatment — was a priority.
In Berlin, a U.N. medical worker infected with Ebola in Liberia died despite “intensive medical procedures.” The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said Tuesday that the 56-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died overnight of the infection.
The man tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 6, prompting Liberia’s U.N. peacekeeping mission to place 41 other staff members under “close medical observation.”
He arrived in Leipzig for treatment on Oct. 9. The hospital’s chief executive, Dr. Iris Minde, said at the time there was no risk of infection for other people, since he was kept in a secure isolation ward specially equipped with negative pressure rooms that are hermetically sealed.
He was the third Ebola patient to be flown to Germany for treatment. The first man recovered and returned home to Senegal. A Uganda aid worker is still being treated in Frankfurt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/who-ebola-cases_n_5982078.html
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At least there’s one guy who’s happy about it…
Spoiler
Metro bus driver quarantined after passenger yells ‘I have Ebola!’ - http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-bus-ebola-20141013-story.html
“Don’t mess with me, I have Ebola!”
Was only a matter of time before people used this as a way for cheap public travel eh. Feel sorry for the bus driver lol nobody needs this kinda shit to ruin their day.
Great. Now the fight is against ebola + assholes. An unwinnable matchup if you ask me.
So i just got to work, and im sitting on my co workers comp. who isnt here… Been here an hour, and these fuckers tell me he went home because he was coughing and high temp… They just tell me this! One hour of me using and touching his shit… I hope there just fucking with me… X_X
So i just got to work, and im sitting on my co workers comp. who isnt here… Been here an hour, and these fuckers tell me he went home because he was coughing and high temp… They just tell me this! One hour of me using and touching his shit… I hope there just fucking with me… X_X
It’s also flu/cold season, just so you know.
There probaly fucking with me, since im the only one in the place whilo hasbeen keeping tabs on this shit…
Paranoid?
Heck yea i live in the dallas/ftworth area. Ill say i am and precatious bro.