“Before Ebola failure, Dallas hospital saw long emergency waits”

Link : http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20141002-before-ebola-failure-dallas-hospital-saw-long-emergency-waits.ece

Your UV light would make short work of virus particles… And bacteria. And bugs, etc. But the longer your textiles are exposed, the more they, too, will be damaged & weakened (witness how beach towels fade in the sun).

UV light ionizes molecules, which tends to break them down (or cause them to recombine) — basically doing the very thing everyone who’s afraid of “radiation” freaks out over.

Oxygen in the air does somewhat the same thing — only it takes longer to “rust” the viral particles into non-activity.

Ebola progression is biphasic. That is to say that many get better before suddenly getting back to looking like Death eating a cracker. Now, I don’t how common or disseminated this is but, to me, that’s a pretty important piece of small print!!

Would one of those 18 inch quartz envelope hard UV germicidal bulbs be effective/helpful with this particular virus?? (Not for people to be in the same room with it!!) — I had one way back that I’d play around with.. sticking it down inside the central air intake and whatnot. If it was placed in the bathroom, you could nearly immediately smell the ‘germs cooking’ off towels and whatnot much like when a septic system is dug up and the dirt exposed to the sun.

{I’ve a friend that was in the duct cleaning buisness and he was looking to ‘invent’ something. We came up with maybe it’d be good to have some kind of inner surface of the ducts to refract that light all throughout it.}

I’m thinking sheets, towels, surfaces, that kind of thing.

But we are not assured that they COULD have jumped in to disinfect the apartment within hours, since they didn’t do that; under other conditions that might have been necessary.

A hazmat team finally arrived on scene today to sanitize the contaminated apartment

yes, yes… it’s DM

Published: 00:47 EST, 3 October 2014 | Updated: 16:55 EST, 3 October 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779036/Hazmat-team-arrives-Ebola-victim-s-apartment-FIVE-DAYS-later.html

Could you please point me to the source/ simple ‘splainer of this ‘four day’ discrepancy? thx.

Rice and salt cures ebola.

RiceAndSalt, thanks for the perspective, very informative.

A key issue here is that, as in most urban areas, facilities in Dallas proper have very little unused or surge capacity. Leaving aside any workflow issues with EHRs like Epic, it’s not surprising that a nonspecifically-symptomatic patient, even a Liberian national, slipped through the cracks when there’s fifty other patients in line at the ER, with ten of them needing immediate triage.