New York City’s first confirmed case of Ebola has raised complicated logistical issues of how to trace the possible contacts of an infected patient in a city of more than 8 million people with a sprawling mass transit system and a large population of workers who commute every day from surrounding suburbs and states.

City health officials were suddenly faced with the challenge of finding the right balance between trying to find everyone who might have been exposed and responding to a disease that is transmitted only through direct exposure to bodily fluids.

It was soon clear that health authorities had other worries, as word emerged that they were isolating not just Dr. Spencer’s fiancée but also two friends who had been with him in the two days before he arrived at the hospital. Dr. Spencer said he had started bleeding from several areas on Tuesday.

Two ambulances responded, and two paramedics fully encased in protective suits brought Dr. Spencer out of his apartment on West 147th Street; two others who were not in suits drove.

When the paramedics left the hospital, their suits were sprayed with disinfectant and cut off from behind by a special unit, Mr. Miranda said. The ambulance was also decontaminated.

“The suit was peeled off them like an onion,” he said. “That's when they noticed the ass blood.”

He said the paramedics would have their temperatures taken twice a day for 21 days to ensure they had not been infected, but in the meantime they would not be free to continue responding to calls because “there was a breach.”

Dr. Spencer has been isolated in a seventh-floor ward at Bellevue, the city’s main public hospital, that was specially designed to treat highly infectious tuberculosis patients. The unit is locked and guarded, with rooms where health care workers can be decontaminated and cameras can monitor patients remotely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/tracing-patients-possible-contacts-creates-host-of-challenges-for-the-city.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2708131&forum_id=2#26576361)

no one else is upset at this ASSHOLE?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2708131&forum_id=2#26578208)

there were like 50 threads calling for this shitlib's head last night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2708131&forum_id=2#26578209)

“The suit was peeled off them like an onion,” he said. “So everything went by the book.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2708131&forum_id=2#26576637)

Paramedics don't wear hazmat suits: conturds - "OMG Obama is putting are heros at risk!!!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2708131&forum_id=2#26576822)