UPDATE: UMC Lubbock says it will not test possible Ebola patient. Also, Loudon Inova refusing to test inmate with fever.

If the hospital in Dallas did not know how to handle this--I have serious doubts that UMC protocol will protect patients,caregivers if in fact this person is infected with ebola.

someone please explain how negative results are coming in in a few hrs in NC and in CT we wait a hot 24 hrs.

some many conflicting reports

I'm getting the feeling this is one huge coverup of a huge clusterfuck thats about to become apparent to everyone-then cue the economic collapse

They seem to be doing everything right so far. My concern is what public restrooms he's used and where else he's been while he has been symptomatic.

HazMat crew is cleaning his house, that's good.

Having a pinned thread about doom in my hometown almost brings a tear to my eye.
Its all the GLP doom anyone could ever want, and it may be just a few blocks away.. and maybe ..just maybe .. Anderson Cooper will come visit us ... oh my , the doomgasm is almost more then one can handle.

on a serious note, my wife is at the UMC hospital right now, no updates from here as of yet.. anything goes down i will update as needed.

~from the Ebola Front lines

I didn't understand either. I know no linky no stinky, but I work here and got the call that they locked down and then about 3 hours later a negative. Somebody somewhere is lying.

Consider this; staph has been present in all of the hospitals in Lubbock for years. Surgery rooms are just moved to different areas of the hospital because it can't be stopped. How will the possible introduction of ebola into UMC affect the safety of all those who are patients and caregivers?

Belton ISD in East Texas has closed 3 campuses as a result of children of a nurse who came in contact with an ebola patient rode on buses there. WOW

[link to www.myfoxlubbock.com]

So 48 hours for a result? And the one here was done in a few hours? Somehow I don't feel so safe about the negative result.

seems like there are a bunch of us Lubbockites here on GLP. I heard there was a scare here in Lubbock about a week ago but it came back negative. Hope this one turns out the same way

Damn. I live in Lubbock.

Wasn't Patrick Sawyer negative too, until he died of it I mean?

I'm on the front lines with you. Live in the same neighborhood as the Asian nurse :/

He was negative for tens after showing symptoms...

Just depends if the sample is tested by a tx lab or a seedyc lab

What is so irritating about all of this, are all of the comments about how we're in Texas and we deserve this. I am not from Texas - I moved to Dallas for a job 2.5 years ago. After graduating in 2008, I couldn't find anything in my home town. I am a law abiding and tax paying citizen. I pay quite a large chunk of my paycheck to federal taxes, thank you very much. Probably a great deal more than a lot of white trash commenters on various news' sites do - since they don't seem to have jobs at all.

So, if you want to blame Texas for this and say that we're on our own, please explain to me how the government or people of Texas could have prevented an infected Liberian from landing in Dallas? And please tell me how you can justify advocating that we all be left to die or that we somehow deserve this? Not sure if I think it's all real, but the reaction the rest of America is having is disgusting.

I live in the area that all of this stuff is going down on in Dallas and don't really know what to think. I want to believe it's a hoax, but the reality might be even worse if that is the case.

Actual test will take 4-6 hours. A lot of it is the travel time to take the sample, transport the sample to an Ebola certified lab (closest one in DFW is a public lab in Austin). Then they typically wait for verification from a sample that was sent to the CDC in Atlanta.

@AshClasterFox34: UMC rep says no #Ebola. The state will not test. The patient will be released and monitored by the #Lubbock Health Department. Presser at 4p

OMG... it makes you wonder how many people they have released that shouldn't have been and in a week or two we are going to have a pandemic

Yeah, there's hardly any illnesses where diarrhea and flu like symptoms occur. Ebola tard.

This bothers me too. How do they know he doesn't have it? They went through all the cost and effort of a Hazmat crew to decontaminate his house. Why not pay for a test?

When a couple thousand people die and the market crashes for real you'll wish we'd been more cautious.

I blame The President for not banning flights from hot zones and the CDC for their careless instruction and handling of US patient zero. Why would anyone blame Texas? Our country isn't handling this situation correctly.

^THIS

They updated the link. [link to www.myfoxlubbock.com]

He doesn't have it and they will not be running the test.

How the hell do they know? Test him dammit! I'm in Dallas and my kids are in Lubbock.

Good!

Im not going outside.