Is the CDC Playing Immigration Politics with Ebola?

Jason Kissner / American Thinker

Astoundingly, CDC Ebola screening/isolation standards issued following the Duncan Dallas Ebola case still do not properly contend with cases like Duncan’s — and who knows how many of those there now are in America?

The CDC’s new policy guidelines will be documented shortly. 

First, though, let’s quickly discuss the problem Duncan’s case presented, and cases like his will continue to present. During his first visit to the Emergency Room of Texas Presbyterian, Duncan’s condition was such that he “presented with low-grade fever and abdominal pain. His condition did not warrant admission. He also was not exhibiting symptoms specific to Ebola.” Accordingly, Texas Presbyterian sent Duncan home with antibiotics.

When the hospital sent the Ebola-infected Duncan home, it did so because it chose to comply with CDC policy guidelines.  Those guidelines were such that even patients who had “traveled to Africa” and who had abdominal pain accompanied with fevers less than 101.5 degrees (i.e., “low-grade” fevers) were to be considered, for purposes of Ebola isolation, essentially “asymptomatic.”

Now then: have you noticed that the MSM has repeatedly characterized Duncan’s case, and cases such as Duncan’s in America, as involving merely “travel to Africa”?  One wonders why that is, especially when Duncan traveled from Africa — from Monrovia, Liberia, in fact.  In addition, Duncan is a Liberian national.  Moreover, we are now told that Duncan “had just moved to Dallas from West Africa” — which sounds an awful lot like Duncan is an immigrant.

Read more at American Thinker: 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/10/is_the_cdc_playing_immigration_politics_with_ebola.html#ixzz3FIH5HMQY