I'm surprised there's been no thread about this...

[Long Run]

Why cant' they be sent there on charter flights? If there aren't enough Australian aid workers, for example, they could fly commercial to a central airport, then combine aid workers from other regions on charter flights.

[Gob]

Date: Thursday 31/10/2014

Invitation

Dear Gob
You are cordially invited to join Australian medical aid for Africa (AMAA). We are holding community education evening talk on Ebola, to increase community awareness and to show our support to the countries affected by this devastated disease that has ravaged and still ravaging west Africa since the recent outbreak early this year.

This event will be held on Friday 21/11/2014 at the Canberra Southern Cross Club 92-96 Corinna Street Woden from 1830 to 2030. The panel of health professionals will be able to share information and answer your questions on Ebola viral Disease (EDV). The details of the speakers will be sent to you three days before the events.

Australian medical aid for Africa is a charity organisation affiliated with Australian Not for Profit and charity commission (ACNC) and AMAA is a deductible gift recipients. Our vision is to support African health system with education and recycled medical equipment from Australian health institutions.

We will be charging a norminal fee of $25 that will go toward a donation to Medecin sans frontiere staff working on the ground in west Africa and to cover to cost of catering this event.
You can purchase the ticket by

 direct bank transfer to St george bank, Account name: Australian Medical Aid for Africa inc. BSB:112-908 Account no: 421621999
or;

 by writing a check or money order to AMAA inc. 71 Christina stead street Franklin ACT 2913 before the 17/11/2014. A ticket will be issued upon reception of money.
Please keep you receipt for your tax return 2015.


Please book your seat as soon as possible. We have to cap the tickets at 200 guests as the southern cross room venue will not accommodate more people.
RSVP by 17/11/2014
There is an under-cover parking in the premises

If you have any question regarding the above please contact us with the details below. Mobile 0401905382, E-mail, info@amaa.org.au .
Yours sincerely

Dr Gaulthier Tshibindi Current president

[rubato]

We get solicitations to go to benefit dinners on a regular basis. (UCSC and Planned Parenthood) If it is a group we support we generally just send a check. If we support them I don't care to cut the donation by the cost of the dinner.

So what did you do?

yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

Family of Ebola patient initially not admitted has settled with Dallas hospital
POSTED NOV 12, 2014 01:15 PM CST - ABA Journal
BY MARTHA NEIL

The family of a man whose Ebola wasn’t initially diagnosed by a Texas hospital has settled a potential claim against the facility over his delayed treatment for an undisclosed amount.

However, attorney Les Weisbrod, who represents the survivors, called the agreement a “very good deal” that will not only provide for Thomas Eric Duncan’s parents and four children but cover the cost of his medical care, WFAA reports.

The company that owns Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas will also pay for a Texas Health Dallas Thomas Eric Duncan Memorial Fund that will help provide treatment for Ebola victims in Liberia. Meanwhile, the chief executive of Texas Health Resources wrote to Duncan’s survivors to apologize, according to the Guardian.

The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports that Weisbrod said the settlement “was the best resolution we could get” under “onerous” Texas laws that limit liability and awards in medical malpractice cases.

“We lost one, but we can save a thousand,” said Josephus Weeks, a nephew of Duncan. “That is my goal.”

A hospital spokeswoman said it is sorry for the delayed diagnosis and “greatly appreciates the acknowledgment by the family’s attorney that Mr. Duncan’s inpatient care was excellent. We are grateful to reach this point of reconciliation and healing for all involved.”

Duncan’s fiancée, Louise Troh, isn’t covered by the settlement because she is not a blood relative.

[Econoline]

Gee...10 pages of posts here on this topic, a solid month of widespread hysteria from the media and just about every Republican politician in the U.S., then suddenly....nothing. I wonder what happened on November 4th that suddenly solved all of this country's Ebola problems?

Hmmmmm....

It is a real puzzlement....

[BoSoxGal]

[Lord Jim]

a solid month of widespread hysteria from the media and just about every Republican politician in the U.S

Yeah, like that well known Republican Andrew Cuomo...

I wonder what happened on November 4th that suddenly solved all of this country's Ebola problems?

Well, that's uh, one theory...

Here's another:

The media lost interest in focusing 24/7 on Ebola after all the US patients were cured, and all the Americans held in quarantine passed through the 21 day period with no new cases occurring...

A more mundane (and less dramatic, paranoid and conspiratorial) theory, but one that fits the facts....

[Guinevere]

Well, except for those pesky facts that Kaci Hickox's quarantine lasted a week past the election (until Veteran's day, in fact), and Dr. Salia, the Maryland surgeon who was being treated in Nebraska for ebola just died yesterday.

[MajGenl.Meade]

...both being the result of Republican plots!

(rubato seems to be on holiday so... you know... filling in)

[Econoline]

a solid month of widespread hysteria from the media and just about every Republican politician in the U.S

Yeah, like that well known Republican Andrew Cuomo...

All right, I should have said "...a solid month of widespread hysteria from the media and just about every Republican politician in the U.S., and even a few Democrats..." Better?

Well, that's uh, one theory...

Huh? What theory? I only said

It is a real puzzlement....

I'm sure the date is only a coincidence, just like it's a coincidence that ISIS terrorists stopped slipping across the Mexican border into Texas and Arizona right about the same time.

[Long Run]

The media lost interest in focusing 24/7 on Ebola after all the US patients were cured, and all the Americans held in quarantine passed through the 21 day period with no new cases occurring...

Gets my vote. The media wore out the wall to wall coverage. So now, most of the coverage has taken it to a "B" story. NPR appears more consistent and less manic in its coverage of this type of topic. The rest chase chase around after the story that will sell best today.

[Guinevere]

The media lost interest in focusing 24/7 on Ebola after all the US patients were cured, and all the Americans held in quarantine passed through the 21 day period with no new cases occurring...

Gets my vote. The media wore out the wall to wall coverage. So now, most of the coverage has taken it to a "B" story. NPR appears more consistent and less manic in its coverage of this type of topic. The rest chase chase around after the story that will sell best today.

Except for the part that it is factually untrue, sure.

[Long Run]

Except for the part that it is factually untrue, sure.

??? Just checked the news headlines from Yahoo, CNN and Fox, and the doctor dying of Ebola is way down the list for both CNN and Fox and not on the list for Yahoo. This tracks with my general impression (and Econo's post) that this story has dropped way down the list. Or, are you referring to something else?

[Guinevere]

I'm referring to LJ's theory about why the coverage dropped, and the fact that all the US Ebola patients hadn't been cured and the Kaci Hickox quarantine wasn't over by the time the elections occurred. So why did they drop the story?

Maybe Econo's theory isn't so far off . . .

[Long Run]

Why isn't the media keeping up front page stories covering the girls abducted by Boko Haram, Central American kids flooding into the U.S., ISIS, Ukraine, etc. These were all 24-7 stories on nearly every media outlet. This is standard procedure for today's media -- provide non-stop coverage until people stop tuning in. Then the story goes to the back burner to get occasional updates unless something significant occurs. The ebola story fits the same model.

[MajGenl.Meade]

... and pit bulls have stopped savaging children to death.

[Gob]

And there's a dead donkey on page four.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Shorely shome mishtake?

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