{"id":19603,"date":"2010-06-30T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19603"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:57:46","slug":"dva-says-sorry-to-1812-potential-aids-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19603","title":{"rendered":"DVA says ‘sorry’ to 1,812 potential AIDs victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Sorry” – that’s the letter 1,812 veterans who were treated at a St. Louis medical facility<\/a> got from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs;<\/p>\n

The letters say the risk of infection is low but offer free blood testing to screen for the hepatitis B virus, the hepatitis C virus and for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection.<\/p>\n

The VA letter said that dental equipment “may not have been cleaned correctly.”<\/p>\n

“We deeply regret that this situation occurred and we assure you that we are taking all the necessary steps to make certain that testing is offered quickly and results communicated timely,” the letter reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn’t that sweet? “The risk of infection is low” but high enough to notify 1812 potential victims. How do you not clean dental equipment correctly? Half of a hospital’s staff only job is to clean stuff correctly. How do you not clean stuff incorrectly for 13-months and then suddenly decide you’ve been doing it wrong all this time?<\/p>\n

It reminds of the countless letters I’ve gotten from the VA telling me that my identity has been compromised because one of their bone head employees lost their computer – they always “deeply regret” that they can’t unring the bell. Why can’t they deeply regret it before they do it, for Pete’s sake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Sorry” – that’s the letter 1,812 veterans who were treated at a St. Louis medical facility … DVA says ‘sorry’ to 1,812 potential AIDs victims<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}