{"id":55729,"date":"2014-10-10T01:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55729"},"modified":"2014-10-10T01:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T05:18:52","slug":"redefining-no-direct-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55729","title":{"rendered":"Redefining “No direct Contact”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may have read few things to Hondo’s post<\/a> a day ago about the DOD stating that there will be a portion of the deploying force that will have direct interaction with the Ebola virus<\/a>. The DOD gave the following statement that this does not mean interaction with actively infected patients. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cIn response to comments I made today about U.S. military personnel potentially coming in direct contact with Ebola infected individuals, specific to lab testing, I want to clarify my remarks. U.S. military personnel working in the labs are not interacting with patients, only samples. The testing labs are manned by highly skilled and trained personnel from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center. These labs provide 24-hour turnaround results on samples received from area clinics and healthcare providers, with the capability to process up to 100 samples per day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet back in September the White House website published a article that stated that 65 Commissioned Officers<\/a> who will be utilized to provide treatment of infected healthcare workers. <\/p>\n

The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is preparing to deploy 65 Commissioned Corps officers to Liberia to manage and staff a previously announced Department of Defense (DoD) hospital to care for healthcare workers who become ill. The deployment roster will consist of administrators, clinicians, and support staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I start to worry when Commanders<\/a> make the following statements about Ebola<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fear and uneasiness for soldiers and their families is something brigade commander Colonel Heath Roscoe understands, but he feels the soldier\u2019s education, training, and preparation will be enough to fight Ebola as well as any fear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel my soldiers are well trained,\u201d said Roscoe. \u201cThere will be apprehension, but the more I read about (Ebola) the more comfortable I become about going over there. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that form me the more I read gives me the exact opposite feeling about the situation. Not to mention the problems caused by fear of the outbreak. There is a video from the POV of a nurse<\/a> on the front lines as he takes care of several patients and documents what seems to be a typical day. <\/p>\n

A town hall meeting was held at Fort Hood on Monday for families of the soon-to-be deployed soldiers to talk about their concerns or fears about the mission into Africa. Roscoe said the soldiers being deployed are all very well-disciplined and will be taught to exercise good hygiene to keep Ebola risk low. Even in a worst-case scenario, Roscoe assured families their loved ones would be okay.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a soldier were to get Ebola over there, they will be okay because America will take care of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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As you may have read few things to Hondo’s post a day ago about the DOD … Redefining “No direct Contact”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55729","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}