Infectious diseases doc, Founding Director of BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON). Former Sr Advisor, Biden White House Covid Team. @buceid.bsky.social
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia
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Want to know what it is like to work in an #Ebola treatment unit. I wrote this after my first deployment in Sierra Leone in 2014.
I pray for & think of DRC’s healthcare workers now. But prayers aren’t enough- resources, help & solidarity are needed.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
One patient told infectious disease physician Nahid Bhadelia, "I am nobody." After 12 days in Sierra Leone, caring for the sick, she couldn't disagree more.
I went back 3 times after this deployment and then worked in Uganda at the border of DRC for a few years because…. Because what I wrote then still rings true now and always.
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia
Healthcare workers shouldn't be martyrs.
Yet we expect them to suffer to save others, time & again. These conversations brought me back to Ebola 2014 when I met nurses in W Africa suffering because they lacked basic protection.
@bhadeliamd.bsky.social was there.
www.newsweek.com/fight-agains...
www.newsweek.com
Less than 2 percent of all Ebola donations went to front-line medical staff in Sierra Leone.
And it definitely doesn't make USA's standing around the world any better when our actions incite protests.
Avg incubation period for Ebola is 8-10 days (4-6d for high risk exposures like needle sticks). Flight back to US could be <20 hours. Unclear how keeping Americans in Kenya UNTIL they are sick is better for them than transporting them back to quarantine closer to US facilities.
