Nurse With Ebola Called CDC Before Flying
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(Newser) The CDC says nurse Amber Vinson shouldn’t have flown—but the agency said something different when she called several times before flying back to Texas from Cleveland earlier this week. A health official tells CBS that someone “dropped the ball” by telling the nurse, the second Dallas hospital worker to have contracted Ebola, that she could fly after she called and reported having a temperature of 99.5 degrees, which is below the “high risk” threshold, which, depending on what you’re reading, is either 100.4 or 101.5.
The CDC is working on a “do not fly” list for people who may have been exposed to Ebola, and officials in Dallas plan “aggressive” containment measures that may include placing health care workers in shelters, reports theDallas Morning News.
Vinson, described by CDC chief Tom Frieden as “ill but clinically stable,” was transferred to Emory Hospital in Atlanta yesterday from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where she worked and where fellow Ebola patient Nina Pham is still being treated, CNN reports. The 29-year-old, who earned her nursing degree from Kent State University and worked in an Akron hospital until 2012, had returned to Ohio to plan her wedding.
The home in an Akron suburb where she stayed for three days has been cordoned off by police, and her stepfather has decided to quarantine himself. “We want to stress that no one here is ill,” a police spokesman tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “This is being done as a precautionary measure.”
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The CDC is a government agency, filled with bureaucrats and bullshit, like so many other government agencies. If we rely on them to keep us out of harm’s way we’re fucked.