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Originally Posted by Sly
Yep. West Africans are smarter than Americans.
Congratulations to all of us.
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Actually no, any African crews who have such protocols in place were trained by westerners. Our N American doctors and nurses and infection control specialists have the setups and protocols in place over there. The problem here is that most if not all Canadian and US hospitals SAY they have certain protocols as standard procedure but the sad fact is that few if any are truly ready to handle this kind of potential major outbreak.
Nursing staff and doctors from major Canadian health care centres have been on the news this week stating flat-out that they aren't fully ready here. Special isolation suits are needed, a set of detailed protocols have to be in place for entering and exiting rooms of infected patients, handling and sterilization of equipment, etc. It all has to be done a certain way, and that hospital in Texas simply did not have it all in place and ready for this.
Few if any other N American facilities would have (no matter what they say or how modern they are). But they're learning now that they need to get their shit together fast, based on this one example.