Nurses union. Our Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl is here now with on worried nurses and the reaction from hospitals. Stephanie. Chris, officials have been insisting american hospitals can handle e bowl la but look what happened in texas now pennsylvania nurses are sounding the alarm. Here at Hahnemann University hospital protective gear is ready. Hospitals everywhere insisting theyre ready to fight ebola. But with a nurse now infected in texas, people are wondering, even those on the front lines. Im concerned that this region is not really prepared for it. Reporter patti aiken is pressed the pennsylvania nurses union. We have all these different hospitals scrambling themselves to try to figure out should they use this goggle or that goggle . Should they use hazmat suits or just emmy permeable gowns. Reporter Nurses Association wants better training for medical personnel. And while there may have been a breach of protocol in texas, the head of Infectious Disease at the National Institu
Contacts of the infected nurse. She and one of her close contacts are both in isolation. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. In light of the first contracted ebola case in the u. S. , inova healthcare says it is increasing its level of preparedness above and beyond what the cdc recommends. Hospitals will hold more drills and increase the level of personal protective equipment. The hospital is also increasing its readiness as First Responders. Inovas Ebola Task Force says it will continue to evaluate its preparations and adjust its plans as the ebola situation evolves. A criminal investigation is underway after a horrible accident over the weekend in oxon hill that killed five people including two children and a mother of eight. Reporter it was a mercedes sedan screaming slickened livingston road friday night that caused this accident. The question is why . There were two kids and three women in this acura all from the same family coming home from home depot when the car was crush
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You have to go back a full 20 years for much of the country to see temperatures this cold. The live picture, new york city right now. It looks cold and for this coming weekend, about 140 million americans will be in the middle of a frigid cold snap. Well get to the big chill in a moment. First, the huge snow storm that blanketed the northeast, froze highways, grounded many airports and took at least 15 lives. The first winter storm of 2014 delivered. Almost two feet of snow in parts of massachusetts. Up to 18 inches in new york. Parts of vermont the wind chill made it seem like 29 below. Cold enough to cause frostbite in half an hour. And in maine, the wind chill pushed the temperatures to 40 below. Im layered up, three swed shirts and four pants. Delayed or cancelled flights because of the storm. Residents here in new york city were asked to stay home and stay warm. And shelters filled with many who normally sleep on the streets. Normally, we open up three times a day for meals and a
Or a newcomer from a distant land, the complexity of the medical system in the United States is difficult to comprehend. Gerard anderson, Health Policy specialist, has a simple way to explain it. Gerard anderson i take them to a grocery store, and i show them all the different cereals, and say,e want toave oicen america. It doesnt seem to give us Better Health re, it doesnt seem to give us lower costs, but it does give us choice, and we value choice above everything. From a practical point of view, the first decision many consumers are confronted with is how to finance their health care. The choices are simply to pay for it themselves, or to enroll in a private or Public Health insurance plan. A lot is said about the marketplace of health care. Well, for half of people who are getting their health plan through an employer, their employer offers such a narrow range of plans that they the consumer feel that they are cut off from options they really would like to have. Many employers only