check this out, mental stuff!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2794854/what-thinking-mystery-man-without-hazmat-suit-seen-helping-2nd-ebola-nurse-board-plane-atlanta-joining-them.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2794854/what-thinking-mystery-man-without-hazmat-suit-seen-helping-2nd-ebola-nurse-board-plane-atlanta-joining-them.html
'Who's the idiot with the clipboard?' Disbelief and panic as mystery
man WITHOUT a hazmat suit helps second Ebola nurse board her plane to
Atlanta, disposes waste and then climbs aboard
- Man casually dressed in shirt and pants seen on TV walking with Ebola patient Amber Vinson
- He carried a clipboard and walked alongside Ms Vinson and healthcare workers who were ALL dressed in hazmat suits
- He has been identified as a supervisor for Phoenix Air, the company that flew Miss Vinson to Atlanta
- Miss
Vinson walked onto the plane in Dallas and the man without protection
also boarded the plane, flying with her to Atlanta, Georgia
- Social media has dubbed him the 'clipboard man' - expressing shock that he came so close to an infected patient and unprotected
As
news helicopters swarmed over Dallas' Love Field on Wednesday evening to
watch the second U.S. nurse to contract Ebola board a private plane
bound for Atlanta, one lone mysterious man stood out from the pack.Holding
a clipboard and directing the transfer, the unidentified man seemed to
be the only person on the tarmac without protective clothing, wearing
just a button down shirt and slacks. While
Ebola is not an airborne disease, his presence so close to patient
Amber Vinson's medical team sparked fears after he was seen grabbing a
container and hazmat trash bag from one of the workers' in
full-protective gear and later boarding the flight. He
then flew with Vinson and the other hazmat-suited medical staff to
Atlanta and local television crews spotted him with the stricken nurse
as she disembarked at the airport in Georgia to be transferred to Emory
University Hospital. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/clipboard-man-hazmat-suit/story?id=26235850" rel="nofollow - ABC News reports that the man is a supervisor for Phoenix Air, the company that flew Miss Vinson from Dallas to Atlanta. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/why-no-protective-gear-for-man-with-dallas-ebola-patient/" rel="nofollow - When
the plane landed in Atlanta, the man had still not donned any
protective clothing and was seen openly interacting with Vinson and the
other medical professionals caring for the nurse. Scroll down for video
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Is he with the CDC? Both the ambulance
company and Emory University Hospital said the unprotected man with the
clipboard (center) is not one of their employees - meaning he is likely
a CDC employee A man in plain clothes was seen on the
tarmac Wednesday afternoon, as the second Ebola patient (in yellow
hazmat suit) boarded a flight to Atlanta, Georgia The man is seen boarding the flight, after exchanging several objects with the hazmat crew Clipboard man appears to have flown on
the same flight as infected Miss Vinson, as he is seen in footage of
her getting into an ambulance at an airport in Atlanta Members of the public watching were struck with disbelief at the man's decision to throw caution to the wind. 'He
needs to be put on watch the second the plane lands so he does not
infect anyone in Atlanta. This needs to be contained and I for one will
be ticked of I hear a report next week that he is the next victim!' Dean
Pitts wrote on NBC Dallas' website. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Plain-Clothes-Man-Perplexes-Viewers-279357962.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand" rel="nofollow - Phoenix Air, which operates the special air ambulances that http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Plain-Clothes-Man-Perplexes-Viewers-279357962.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand" rel="nofollow - have
also flown all five American Ebola patients from West African to the
US, claimed the unprotected man actually made the process safer. 'Our
medical professionals in the biohazard suits have limited vision and
mobility and it is the protocol supervisor’s job to watch each person
carefully and give them verbal directions to insure no close contact
protocols are violated,' a Phoenix Air spokesman told ABC. 'There is absolutely no problem with this and in fact insures an even higher level of safety for all involved.' http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Plain-Clothes-Man-Perplexes-Viewers-279357962.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand" rel="nofollow - Vinson landed in Atlanta, Georgia before 8pm Eastern Time to be treated at Emory University Hospital A CDC spokesman told http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/why-no-protective-gear-for-man-with-dallas-ebola-patient/" rel="nofollow - KTVT that they didn't think anything was wrong with the interaction since he 'kept a safe distance'. Miss Vinson's flight landed in Atlanta around 7:45pm Eastern Time. Social
media was as equally impressed as they were dumbfounded by the man who
has quickly become known as 'clipboard man' online. Dan
Hevia said what many shocked viewers must have immediately thought when
they saw the brave or foolhardy individual when he wrote, 'I'd like to
know who the dude with the clipboard is so I can avoid him. C'mon! Another
incredulous witness was staggered, asking, 'My infectious disease
training may be a bit limited but fairly sure that clipboard isn't Ebola
proof.' Others
went straight to the heart of the matter, with Lib Media Exposed
asking, 'Who's the idiot who thinks all the protection he needs from
Ebola is a f******' clipboard?' Another
Twitter user, Luke Murray pointed out that 'clipboard man' might be the
recipient of a dubious prize, should the worst come to the worst. 'So
much for protocols,' wrote Lurray. 'Clipboard dude in the pic with
nurse 2 is up for a Dawrin Award should something happen to him.' The
mystery man on the tarmac is just the latest questionable practice
highlighted in the CDC's handling of the Ebola outbreak in America,
which started when Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan was initially
turned away from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital last month after
reporting a high fever. The man
with the clipboard is seen grabbing various objects from the hazmat
team, raising questions about whether he could have been contaminated A plane carrying Miss Vinson, who tested positive for Ebola, departs Love Field for Atlanta Despite
telling health care workers that he had recently returned from Liberia,
he was not tested for Ebola, and was instead sent home with
antibiotics. He returned home to his family's apartment and continued to
get worse over the next several days. It was only when he was taken to
the hospital a second time, that time by ambulance, that medics
discovered he had Ebola. And
in the initial days of Duncan's treatment, nurses at the Dallas
hospital revealed that they were given 'no protocols' on how to dress
when caring for the Ebola patient. That
confusion led nurse Nina Pham, 26, to report to the hospital on Friday
when she noticed a spike in her temperature. Just four days later, her
co-worker Miss Vinson, became the second nurse at the hospital to
contract the disease. The CDC is currently monitoring more than 75
health care workers at the hospital who came into contact with Duncan
during his stay. He passed way from the disease last week. The
worsening Ebola problem led President Obama to abruptly cancel a planned
campaign trip on Wednesday, deciding to meet with his Cabinet on the
issue instead. Obama's
decision to nix the trip - just a few hours before Air Force One was
scheduled to depart - reflected the urgency facing the administration
amid the American public's escalating concerns about potential spread of
the virus. Ebola patient Amber Vinson arrives by ambulance at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta yesterday Miss Vinson's plane landed in Atlanta
around 7:45pm Eastern Time. She was then seen being loaded into an
ambulance (pictured) to be taken to Emory University Hospital Press secretary Josh Earnest said on Wednesday that Obama still had confidence in CDC Director Tom Frieden. However, the president admitted that Ebola needs to be fought in a 'much more aggressive way'. 'What
we've been doing here is reviewing exactly what we know about what’s
happened in Dallas,' Obama said Wednesday, 'and how we’re going to make
sure that something like this is not repeated – and that we are
monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way
exactly what has taken place in Dallas initially, and making sure that
the lessons learned are then transmitted to hospitals and clinics all
across the country.' Emergency vehicles escort an ambulance carrying Miss Vinson on the tarmac at Love Field Airport A maintenance woman wears a mask while
working before the Protect Environmental Haz-Mat emergency response
team arrived at the Bend East apartment complex where the Ebola-stricken
nurse lives Workers in hazmat suits begin to decontaminate the female Ebola patient's apartment, covering the door with plastic sheeting Decontamination was in progress in the apartment building of the second health care worker with Ebola This
comes as President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to approach new
cases of the Ebola virus in a 'much more aggressive way,' signaling that
his administration hasn't already been doing all it can to slow the
advance of the deadly contagion. As
pressure grows on the administration to explain how it has failed to
contain the disease in Texas, the president said the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention would launch a 'rapid response SWAT team' within
24 hours whenever a new case is confirmed. A Frontier Airlines jet carrying Dallas nurse Amber Jay Vinson crisscrossed America's skies The CDC team, he said, will 'take local hospitals step by step through what needs to be done.' Obama's
comments to the press came after a hastily called all-hands-on-deck
cabinet meeting that lasted two hours and pre-empted a pair of planned
political campaign appearances in New Jersey and Connecticut. The
president's promise to get more serious about Ebola mirrors a vow on
Monday from CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, who said his agency would
'double down' on disease surveillance and interventions. The Frontier Airlines plane that Amber
Vinson flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, rests at a terminal at
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Wednesday Dallas Police patrol the entrance to
The Village Bend East apartments where a nurse, Amber Jay Vinson, tested
positive for Ebola after caring for 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan In harm's way: Obama said he had
personally hugged and shook hands with nurses who had treated an Ebola
patient at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Miss Winson is transported to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where she is receiving treatment for Ebola That comment, too, suggested that the government hadn't yet put the pedal to the metal. 'What
we've been doing here is reviewing exactly what we know about what’s
happened in Dallas,' Obama said Wednesday, 'and how we’re going to make
sure that something like this is not repeated – and that we are
monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way
exactly what has taken place in Dallas initially, and making sure that
the lessons learned are then transmitted to hospitals and clinics all
across the country.' Obama
is struggling amid low approval ratings to show that he's in command of
the world's most sophisticated public health infrastructure as Ebola
threatens to claim tens of thousands of lives across the Atlantic Ocean. 'I
am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak of the
disease here in the United States,' Obama said, 'but it becomes more
difficult to do so if this epidemic of Ebola rages out of control in
West Africa.' Wrong guy? Thomas
Frieden (on screen) is a doctor with years of experience in monitoring
disease outbreaks, but his communication style and his all-is-well
predictions rub some in Congress the wrong way President Barack Obama called off a
political trip on Wednesday to convene an Ebola brain-trust meeting at
the White House, saying afterward that his administration would be 'much
more aggressive' in the future 'If
it does, then it will spread globally in an age of frequent travel and
the kind of constant interactions that people have across borders.' Citing
the need to continue sending relief workers and aid shipments to
western Africa, he insisted that 'the investment we make in helping
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea deal with this problem is an investment
in our own public health.' 'This
is not simply charity. ... It is also probably the single most
important thing we can do to prevent a more serious Ebola outbreak in
this country.' In
a bid to assure Americans that the risk of transmitting Ebola from
person to person is low, Obama said that he personally 'shook hands
with, hugged and kissed (not the doctors) but a couple of the nurses at
Emory [University Hospital] because of the valiant work that they did in
treating one of the patients.' 'The
followed the protocols, they knew what they were doing and I felt
perfectly safe doing so,' he said. 'This is not a situation like the flu
where the risks of a rapid spread of the disease are imminent.' 'I want to use myself as an example so people have a sense of the science here,' Obama declared. But
the president's confidence has been confounded by his choice of
point-persons, which is under fierce attack on Capitol Hill as
Republican members of Congress privately fret that the administration
has put the wrong people out in front. Frieden
on Wednesday blamed the third confirmed U.S. Ebola patient for getting
on a commercial aircraft on Monday following her close interaction with
the first patient, when she had a slight fever before the aircraft began
boarding. However, later on Wednesday, the CDC admitted they gave Vinson permission to fly.
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