Rather than having a weekend morning sipping coffee, she's at her office right now administering immunoglobulin to kids who were in their office while a compromised child(ren) were also there. These are little kids that were not yet vaccinated because of age or some other health reason. So because of some anti-vaxxer JERK, or someone who "feels" they know better than a trained doctor, these little kids and parents need to go through this. And the kids aren't the only ones affected This is creating a real hassle for lots of people.
She spent the entire day yesterday determining first of all what patients may have been exposed during the time Patient X was also in the office. That's means a call to about 30 families not expecting one from a doctor's office. This had to be done in order to determine if any signs of disease were apparent or if there were any members of the family not vaccinated. In the meantime, arrangements had to be made in order to administer the immunoglobulin. That meant calls to various area hospitals to determine availability of the IG, and then would the hospitals administer at their facilities. Answer to both was NO. Hospitals concerned about introducing potentially contagious patients in hospital setting. Nobody prepared for a situation the stupidity of certain parents created.
With calls late into the evening, Cook County Health Services finally located IG, but now it will need to be administered at the Peds practice office.
So now imagine this scenario repeating itself in other parts of the country. Makes the hysteria over Ebola look way overblown doesn't it?
Maybe "vaccinologists" like Jenny McCarthy, "Dr. Wolfson", and Anti-Vax High Priest Andrew Wakefield can pay my wife overtime for their bullshit.