Uh Oh: Texas Hospital Changes Account on Ebola Patient

It's amazing how politicized this infectious threat has become.

Seems to me that if the Obama administration truly cared about the health and safety of the American people, we'd have quarantined these infected individuals immediately and banned all flights from Liberia and other countries at the center of this abominable plague.

But no. The anti-American Obama-Dems don't want to seal the borders at all, lest that place in danger their immigration amnesty pathology.

This is how low the Democrats have taken this country. And you can truly understand then the public hatred of the president and his party. They're going to be crushed in the midterm elections, just barely over a month away.

In any case, at the Wall Street Journal, "Texas Hospital Changes Ebola Patient Account: Dallas Hospital Says Duncan’s Travel History Available to Doctors and Nurses":

DALLAS—A day after saying that doctors didn’t receive a Liberian patient’s travel history due to an electronics records glitch, the Dallas hospital that initially failed to admit the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has changed its version of events, stating that information that he had come from Africa was in fact available to doctors.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a terse clarification late Friday evening that Thomas Eric Duncan ’s travel history was available to physicians as well as nurses in its electronic health records when Mr. Duncan first arrived at the hospital’s emergency room on the night of Sept. 25, complaining that he felt ill.

That was a marked change from a statement sent out by the hospital late Thursday evening, which said that the hospital had “identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case,” which had prevented the physicians from seeing the information nurses collected from Mr. Duncan that he had recently arrived from Africa.

Doctors sent Mr. Duncan home with a prescription for antibiotics when he initially visited the hospital. He was only admitted to the hospital three days later, on Sept. 28, when he returned via ambulance after his symptoms had worsened. He was formally diagnosed with Ebola two days after that, on Sept. 30.

By that time, Mr. Duncan had come into close contact with emergency medical technicians, and five children he had been around had attended Dallas public schools Monday and Tuesday. One child also attended a middle school on Wednesday, school officials have said.

The hospital provided no further information about what took place during Mr. Duncan’s initial visit, raising questions about whether the facility had been on the lookout for potential cases of Ebola following warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC had earlier cautioned hospitals that the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has killed more than 3,000 people according to the World Health Organization, had increased the likelihood that patients from impacted countries would come to the U.S., and that early recognition of potential Ebola cases in America was critical.

More.

Plus, a roundup at Instapundit, "REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL! U.S. Officials Urge Calm in Face of Ebola Concerns."