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Obama Announces CDC SWAT Teams To Round Up Infected People

Sunday, October 19, 2014 6:55



President Obama, who has notably ignored our open Southern border, welcomed illegal aliens, and refused to institute a travel ban from Ebola-ridden countries, has a hardcore solution for Americans who are potentially suffering from Ebola. He’ll just increase the police state another notch.


“What I have directed the CDC to do is that as soon as somebody is diagnosed with Ebola then we want a rapid response team, a SWAT team essentially, from the CDC, to be on the ground as quickly as possible. Hopefully within 24 hours.”.




Obama Calls for CDC 'SWAT' Team for Ebola Virus


Published on Oct 15, 2014
President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United State . (Oct. 15)

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Military preps team for Ebola response in US

By Ben Brumfield and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
updated 3:08 PM EDT, Sun October 19, 2014

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(CNN) -- The U.S. military is forming a 30-person "quick strike team" equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, a Defense Department official told CNN's Barbara Starr on Sunday.

A Pentagon spokesman later confirmed portions of the official's information.

The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said.

The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.

The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.

The Pentagon has been working to determine what assistance it could offer the civilian health care sector following a White House meeting last week during which President Barack Obama said he wanted a more aggressive response, according to two Defense officials.

"In response to a request by the Department of Health and Human Services -- and as an added prudent measure to ensure our nation is ready to respond quickly, effectively, and safely in the event of additional Ebola cases in the United States -- (Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel) today ordered his Northern Command Commander, Gen. Chuck Jacoby, to prepare and train a 30-person expeditionary medical support team that could, if required, provide short-notice assistance to civilian medical professionals in the United States," Kirby said.

Jacoby is already working with the military to source and to form the joint team, Kirby said, and once formed, it will head to Fort Sam Houston in Texas for up to seven days of training in infection control and personal protective equipment. The training, provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, will begin "within the next week or so," Kirby said.

The team will remain in "prepare-to-deploy" status for 30 days, he said. It will be able to respond anywhere in the U.S. if "deemed prudent by our public health professionals," he said.

Cruise passenger cleared

Sunday's news out of the Pentagon came as acruise ship plowed through the waters of a Texas port with precious cargo on board -- the end of a small Ebola scare. A passenger had been loosely linked to the only patient to die from the disease in the United States, but health authorities cleared her after an odyssey at sea.

After voluntarily isolating herself in her cabin, she remained symptom-free, and her lab tests looked good, the Galveston County Health Authority said. She and a travel partner were allowed to disembark.
The drama goes back to the woman's work as a lab supervisor at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, the center of a maelstrom of Ebola fears in the United States.

It's where Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan was misdiagnosed and later died, and where two nurses became the first people to contract Ebola in America.

Seventy-five health workers and 48 people in the community are under monitoring after coming into contact with Duncan. The monitoring period for the 48 community members ends at midnight Sunday night, said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who is overseeing response efforts in Dallas.

"Thankfully they are all asymptomatic and it looks like none of them will get Ebola," Jenkins said, expressing hope that they would be welcomed home with no issues. "The community needs to reach out and envelop them in compassion and acceptance because we cannot have the community stigmatizing people. ... They have been through a terrible ordeal."

As for the other 75 people, they are in Day 11 of 21 since Duncan's death and Jenkins said, "Today is a crucial day for them because is one of the last high-likelihood days that we will see more cases."

Hospital apologizes

On Sunday, the hospital took out a full-page newspaper ad, once again offering an apology.

We slipped up; we're deeply sorry; we'll do better.

That could serve as a summary of the open letter from Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay Berdan in the Sunday editions of the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The turmoil started in September, when Duncan went to the hospital with Ebola symptoms, and health care workers initially sent him home with antibiotics.

They recorded his travel history to West Africa, where a raging Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people. But they didn't give that detail the necessary attention, the hospital said.

"As an institution, we made mistakes in handling this very difficult challenge," Berdan wrote. The hospital is analyzing the errors and will make changes, he said.

Hopefully others will also learn from those mistakes and the first cases of Ebola contagion in the country, and its first death, will also be its last, Berdan wrote.

White House eyes Dallas

At the White House late Saturday, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pursued the same goal, together with a roster of top security and health leaders -- including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, national security adviser Susan Rice and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden.
They zeroed in on Dallas and the process of tracing anyone who may have come into contact with any of the infected people, a White House statement said.
And after Duncan's misdiagnosis, the administration said it intends to "ensure that Dallas has all of the appropriate and necessary resources to diagnose any additional cases safely and effectively."

WHO to review Ebola response amid criticism

Employeetravel scares
The cruise ship incident and a second travel scare came about in a bureaucratic loophole.

In an abundance of caution to avoid any possible spread of the Ebola virus, about 50 people associated with Texas Health Presbyterian have signed a document legally restricting where they can go until they are cleared of Ebola.

But before the voluntary travel ban existed, the lab supervisor and a nurse, who later came down with Ebola, went on trips and triggered hefty responses.

The cruise ship carrying the lab supervisor headed to the Central American country of Belize.

She had had no direct contact with Duncan but may have handled one of his lab specimens. A doctor on board the ship observed her to make sure she was symptom-free as the incubation period within which the disease would manifest itself approached its end.

She appeared to be home free.

But in an abundance of caution, the State Department planned to fly the lab supervisor back to the United States from Belize City's airport. Then the country's government declined to let her onto land and, in the same week, imposed strict travel bans on anyone who has had contact with Ebola-affected areas.

Chopper fetches blood samples

The ship hauled the lab worker back toward Texas and on Saturday, a day before its set arrival time, the U.S. Coast Guard sent down a chopper to collect blood samples for lab testing. It lowered a hoist basket to pick them up.

"The samples, which are in a container, so the USCG members are not exposed, were taken by Carnival's onboard doctor," said Petty Officer Andy Kendrick, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman.
The other travel scare was set off by one of the nurses who contracted Ebola after treating Duncan. Before her illness was apparent, Amber Vinson took a Frontier Airlines flight to Cleveland, then a flight back to Dallas.

After her contagion became known, the air carrier reached out to some 800 passengers, advising them to contact the CDC.
Frontier Airlines also took the plane out of service temporarily.

In Ohio, 29 people who came into contact with Vinson between October 10 and 13 are being monitored. The nurse has been transferred to Emory University Hospital's isolation unit in Atlanta for treatment.
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN on Sunday that he didn't know much about Vinson's condition, but he said Nina Pham, the other Dallas nurse who contracted the illness, was in fair condition and doing "fine."

Also, as questions persist regarding the matter of Ebola in domestic animals, Dallas Animal Services announced that Pham's dog, Bentley, will transition to a special kennel for waste monitoring and testing. The dog is being monitored 21 days, as humans are.

Tears shed for Duncan

On Saturday, loved ones honored Duncan's memory in North Carolina, where his mother lives.

In a memorial service at Rowan International Church in Salisbury, his nephew Josephus Weeks and others eulogized Duncan as a kind, compassionate man.

Weeks said he wished Duncan would be remembered for his acts of kindness "as opposed to the person who brought this disease to America, because he didn't know he was sick."
Duncan's willingness to help others may have led to his death at age 42.

Former neighbors in Monrovia, Liberia, have said he may have contracted Ebola while rushing to the aid of a woman who collapsed under duress from the disease. She was pregnant, and Duncan did not know she was sick, they said.

There is good news

There are hopeful signs that some of the Ebola contagion scare in the United States could be winding down. Of the four patients currently being treated, at least two appear to be making a recovery.

And the monitoring of 48 people who came into contact with Duncan should draw to a close soon.

Duncan was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian on September 28, when he went there the second time. That was the last day the monitored people could have had contact with him.
The maximum incubation period for Ebola is 21 days. That period runs out on Monday.

Contrast that with West Africa, where the disease continues to spread exponentially, as the international response remains anemic.

With predictions that Ebola could infect an additional 5,000 to 10,000 people there per week by December, and given the mobility of world travel, the whirlwind of angst surrounding Duncan's case might not be the last.

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October 19, 2014

"Things Are Getting Ready To Go Down" - Ebola, Martial Law And Then The "Camps"?

By Susan Duclos


All News PipeLine friend Tom Lupshu has put together a must-see video, showing hospital planning papers that were smuggled out to him, adding it together with previous warnings we have heard from multiple sources about something huge coming to the US, deliberately organized and implemented, in order to usher in the economic collapse, martial law and eventually when people can no longer feed themselves, the "camps."

Consider the timing of the first case of imported Ebola, the different strains, the "inconsistent" monitoring by the CDC of the contacts of those that have become infected by Ebola, and most importantly, a fact that is not mentioned publicly by the CDC, WHO or any other health related agency, which is that five percent of people infected by Ebola, present systems AFTER the 21 days incubation period.

For me, a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the first nine months of the 2014 epidemic in West Africa raises concern about the short, often-mentioned 21 post-exposure-day periods in the guidelines. In the journal's study of 4,507 probable and confirmed cases, "approximately 95 percent of the case patients had symptom onset within 21 days of exposure." If we do the math, this means that approximately 5 percent or 225 of the Ebola cases in West Africa had symptoms 21 days after exposure, as reported by the patient or caregiver.

Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa we have been told that the US is much better prepared to handle an outbreak, yet from the very first case, Thomas Duncan, things have been done that defy every protocol the nation was supposedly prepared to implement, from sending him home from the hospital with antibiotics after being informed of his travel history, to the CDC allowing a healthcare worker who reported symptoms, to get on a plane and travel, to a whole host of other "missteps" which leaves many with the uneasy feeling that this is all deliberate..... not mistakes.

Lupshu is not the only one seeing that Ebola fears are being used in order to justify either a medical lockdown or outright martial law as an email I received this morning clearly outlines that others see what is happening as well. Email below:

Dear Ms. Duclos,

This ebola thing is not what it seems. The AIDS thing was a greater threat, without the fanfare. Today the travel restrictions are about West Africa, this is really about limiting our freedom to travel around the United States as freely as we do. The Texas nurses are just the beginning, to protect us, the travel bans will begin between our big cities, it will not be Africans who will be limited in their travel, it will be Americans. Since Texans have the first documented cases, they will be limited first.

What happens when the outbreak spreads to half of the country? Panic, civil unrest, a crackdown using that unrest to justify martial law. Ebola will be blamed for collapsing our financial system, stores will be out of food and the starving masses will willingly go into "camps" to feed their family and be kept "safe."

What seemed like a "conspiracy" scenario just months ago.... is starting to look very real, very possible right now.


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Hagel orders military medical team to train, get ready for quick response to more Ebola cases in US

Published October 19, 2014 FoxNews.com
FILE: Oct. 9, 2014: marines arrival at the Roberts International airport in Monrovia, Liberia. (AP)


The Defense Department said Sunday that it is preparing a quick-response medical team to help health-care professionals should the Ebola virus spread in the United States.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the training of the 30-member team and said the effort was in response to a Department of Health and Human Services request.

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the move is “an added, prudent measure to ensure our nation is ready to respond quickly, effectively and safely in the event of additional Ebola cases.”

The military is already assisting in efforts to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa, where roughly 4,300 people have died so far this year from the virus.

Last week, six U.S. military planes delivered more supplies and 100 Marines to West Africa. The Marines’ arrival means roughly 300 U.S. service members are now in the region, said Maj. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, the commander leading the U.S. response.

The U.S. military is working to build medical centers in hard-hit Liberia and may eventually send as many as 4,000 soldiers to West Africa.

The Obama administration has faced sharp criticism for its handling of the virus so far in the United States, particularly about whether proper hospital protocol and safety measures are in place.

The first known Ebola patient in the country, Thomas Eric Duncan, was sent home from Dallas’ Texas Presbyterian Hospital in late September after arriving at the emergency room with Ebola-like symptoms. Duncan, who had just come from Liberia, returned to the hospital several days later and died.

Now, two health professionals who were treating Duncan have the virus.
In addition to the new Defense Department effort, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to announce changes in protocol, in response to the lapses and widespread public concern.

The members of the 30-member military team will be selected and led by Northern Command Commander Gen. Chuck Jacoby.

The team of 20 critical care nurses, five doctors trained in infectious disease and five trainers in infectious-disease protocols will go to Fort Sam Houston, in Texas, for as many as seven days to receive specialized training in infection control and personal-protective equipment.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told “Fox News Sunday” that one of the two health-care workers with Ebola, nurse Nina Pham, was likely infected because “she was not completely covered” with her protective clothing.

He also said she’s “very stable” and expressed guarded optimism about her recovery, saying she was “progressing very well.”

Kirby said the quick-response team’s training is expected to start within the next week and will be provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

When the training is completed, the team will remain in a "prepare to deploy" status for 30 days, making it ready to go to any CONUS, or contagious United States, location.

Kirby said the team will not be sent to West Africa or elsewhere overseas and will be called to respond in the U.S. only at the order of public health professionals.

“Secretary Hagel is committed to ensuring (the Defense Department) is prepared to provide appropriate capabilities, as required, to support our government's response to this deadly disease,” he also said.

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