Ebola Health Worker Flew Hours Before Reporting Symptoms
By Caroline Chen Oct 15, 2014 11:38 AM ET
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — A second health-care worker in Texas tested positive after caring for an Ebola patient, opening new questions about oversight lapses by federal officials and spurring a nurses’ group to criticize safety precautions used within the hospital.
The second health-care worker diagnosed with Ebola in Texas flew between Cleveland and Dallas hours before she reported symptoms to state health workers, U.S. health officials said today.
The caregiver caught the deadly virus while treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas this month. She flew to Dallas on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 the night of Oct. 13, according to a e-mailed statement by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She then reported symptoms the next morning.
“Because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning, CDC is reaching out to passengers,” the agency said. The plane had 132 passengers, the CDC said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-15/ebola-health-worker-flew-day-before-reporting-symptoms.html
Correction: before flying she called the CDC and told them her temp was 99.5. Her temp was below their thresholdof 100.4.
Nurses save lives! These Nurses risked their lives to care for Duncan. Were they trained in the special protocol for Ebola? Did they argee to put their lives at risk? Did they agree to place their lives on hold for three weeks in quarantine (while planning her wedding)? Where are we going to find healthcare workers to care for us in a pandemic?
Now there seems to be a witch hunt to blame them for Ebola!