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Officials change minds on controversial call, helping Cowboys to win
Conspiracy theorists had their smoking gun in the fourth quarter of the Dallas Cowboys-Detroit Lions playoff game on Sunday.
You very rarely see an officiating crew pick up a flag as late as the Cowboys-Lions crew did on the most controversial play of wild-card weekend. On third down,
Matthew Stafford threw to Brandon Pettigrew, who was covered by Cowboys linebacker Anthony Hitchens. Hitchens never turned around, face-guarding Pettigrew, and that combined with some contact drew a flag for pass interference.
Jan 4, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Detroit Lions quarterback
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But the Lions went from thinking they had a crucial first down to facing a fourth and 1. That's because the officials reversed the call, saying Hitchens made a clean play. There was no pass interference. The Lions
unsuccessfully tried to draw the Cowboys offsides on fourth an 1, took a delay of game penalty, shanked a punt, and the Cowboys marched down for a go-ahead 8-yard touchdown pass from Tony Romo to Terrance Williams with 2:32 remaining. The non-call changed the entire game. The Cowboys (who, conspiracy theorists will note, are an enormous draw for the NFL) held on to win 24-20. Most NFL fans hate the Cowboys, and did they ever hate that the pass interference wasn't called.
Mike Pereira, the well-respected former vice president of officiating in the NFL, was in the booth for Fox’s broadcast and said he thought it was pass interference and wrong of the officials to reverse the call. That seemed to be the consensus opinion of most fans watching as well. No matter what the call should have been, it went against the Lions and will be a topic of conversation for a long time.
Jennifer Aniston Talks Brad Pitt Divorce: "I Don't Find It Painful"
Ancient history! Before Brangelina ever roamed the red carpets, Brad Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston for close to five years, in what was considered a picture-perfect Hollywood romance.
Their split and his relationship with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie which notoriously overlapped were highly publicized in 2005. The exes have since moved on -- with Pitt raising six children with Jolie and marrying her in 2014, and Aniston getting engaged to actor Justin Theroux -- but the breakup remains a watershed moment in celebrity history.
"I don't find it painful," Aniston, 45, said on CBS Sunday Morning of the split. "I think it's a narrative that follows you because it's an interesting headline. It's more of a media-driven topic."
When asked whether she still keeps in touch with Pitt, 51, her reply is: "We've exchanged good wishes an all that sort of stuff to each other, but it's not a constant thing."
As for her current relationship, the Cake star prefers to keep that private.
"We know what our truth is, and [the rumors are] all just static," she said of her three-year romance with Theroux, 43.
For now, the Golden Globe-nominated actress is gearing up for awards season where her role in the independent drama Cake is already getting plenty of buzz.
"I really was just ready to disappear and really go into the depths of a character," she said.
Patient Possibly Exposed To Ebola Due At Nebraska Hospital For Observation
A view of the emergency entrance at the Nebraska Medical Center Biocontainment Unit in Omaha, Nebraska, November 15, 2014. (Photo: Reuters / Brian C. Frank)
A U.S. health care worker who was possibly exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was expected to arrive for observation on Sunday at a Nebraska facility that has treated three Ebola cases, hospital officials said.
The patient, who was not identified, was expected to arrive at the Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha via private air ambulance around 2 p.m. CST for observation and possible treatment, the center said in a statement.
Related: Potential Exposure At CDC Lab
The patient “has been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious,” said Dr. Phil Smith, the unit’s medical director, adding “we will be taking all appropriate precautions.”
It gave no details on how the possible exposure occurred.
The same team that cared for three previous Ebola patients at the facility, two of whom were successfully treated, would be working on the case, Smith said. A third patient who arrived gravely ill died a short time later.
The center will monitor for development of infection over the 21-day incubation period using observation and blood tests.
Related: Only Six Percent Of U.S. Hospitals Are Equipped To Handle Ebola
On Saturday, a London hospital said a British nurse being treated for Ebola was in critical condition after deteriorating over the last two days.
The Royal Free Hospital said Pauline Cafferkey, 39, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on British soil, had returned to Britain from Sierra Leone where she had been working for a charity.
Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 8,000 people out of more than 20,000 cases in an outbreak that began in March. Most all of the cases have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Only 6 Percent of U.S. Hospitals Are Equipped to Handle Ebola
Don’t let the hazmat suit fool you. Most U.S. hospitals aren’t totally prepared to take on Ebola patients. (Photo: Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has come under fire for failing to properly handle the first Ebola case to arrive stateside. But a new survey by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) suggests that the majority of U.S. hospitals are similarly ill-prepared to receive Ebola patients.
From Oct. 10 to Oct. 15, APIC asked 1,039 infection prevention personnel at U.S. hospitals this question: How prepared is your facility to receive a patient with the Ebola virus? Only 6 percent thought their hospital was well-equipped to tackle such a case, even though 81 percent had initiated Ebola training for their staff. Five percent said their facility wasn’t prepared at all.
A big part of the problem: a shortage of staff focused on warding off infection. Among the hospitals surveyed, 51 percent had just one infection prevention expert on staff or none at all. Forty-two percent had only two to five infection preventionists.
Related: How Plasma Transfusions From Survivors Fight Ebola
It’s hard to say exactly how many infection preventionists the average U.S. hospital should employ, since more than the number of inpatient beds needs to be considered, said Linda Greene, RN, an infection preventionist at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., and a former board member of APIC. The administration should also evaluate things like critical-care capacity and the number of clinics — for example, dialysis facilities — that are associated with the hospital. “You really have to do a thorough assessment of where the needs are,” she said. “And for many hospitals, that evaluation has not necessarily been done.”
What exactly does an infection preventionist do? The job description is exactly what you’d expect: helps to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases through surveillance, investigation of cases and outbreaks, staff training, and development of infection-control policies. (Many are registered nurses or have a master’s degree in public health.)
In an ideal situation, “they are the feet-on-the-ground individuals, doing in-the-moment teaching, answering questions about disease transmission or different types of organisms,” Greene said. “They’re doing a continual scan of what’s coming in — what types of patients, microbiology reports, infections.” Unfortunately, mandatory reporting of infectious-disease data means preventionists are often “tied to their desks” instead of educating the hospital’s staff about infection control and implementing disease-prevention strategies, said Greene.
In a small hospital, a single infection preventionist may be adequate, said Greene, but “the majority of respondents [to the survey] really feel that they don’t have the resources necessary.” This is due not only to inadequate funding, but also a lack of appreciation for infection preventionists’ role in the hospital. “When there is not an immediate threat, like the Ebola outbreak, and your infection rates are very good, [people don’t realize] that those rates are good because someone is working to prevent infections,” Greene told Yahoo Health. “The infection preventionist is underappreciated until something goes wrong.”
Baby missing from home where mom, dad, uncle shot
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A 3-week-old girl was missing Sunday from a California home where the baby's mother, father and uncle were found shot, police said.
Long Beach police were seeking an adult male in the shooting but have not said if the man is related to the missing infant.
His motive was unknown but detectives do not believe the shooting was a random act, police spokeswoman Marlene Arrona said.
Officers went to the residence Saturday evening after receiving a call about the shooting and found the two brothers and the baby's mother with gunshot wounds, she said. One of the brothers is the father of the child.
Two victims remained hospitalized in critical but stable condition. The other was treated and released.
The 10-pound baby girl, named Eliza Delacruz, is the focus of an urgent police search.
Authorities asked anyone who knows of someone bringing home an infant under suspicious circumstances to call the police or take the child to a police station, hospital or fire station.
Police released a photo that showed the child sleeping on a red blanket in a ruffled white dress with a white bow in her hair.