Posted on 10/11/2014 7:33:43 AM PDT by Hoboken
The New Jersey Health Department has issued a mandatory quarantine order for Dr. Nancy Snyderman and the other members of an NBC crew who were exposed to a cameraman with Ebola. The mandatory order was issued after a voluntary 21-day isolation agreement was violated.
A spokeswoman for the state health department told the The Associated Press that Snyderman and her crew remains symptom-free and that there is no reason for concern of exposure to the deadly virus to the community. Citing privacy concerns, the spokeswoman would not give further details, including who violated the agreement and how the state learned of a violation.
Snyderman and her crew were reporting in Liberia about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who was infected with the disease. He is now being treated in Omaha, Nebraska. The director of the Nebraska Medical Center’s isolation unit said Friday that Mukpo’s condition was slightly improved, the Associated Press reported.
After Mukpo came down with the disease on Oct. 1, the head of NBC announced in a letter that Snyderman and the rest of her crew would voluntarily be isolated for 21 days.
In a phone interview from Liberia last week for the Today Show, Snyderman said all the gear she and her crew used was being disinfected because they all shared work space and vehicles. She said she believed she and her team were at a low risk because they have been hyper-vigilant.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people exposed to the virus develop symptoms two to 21 days after their exposure. The risk of exposure for other members of the NBC crew was considered to be very low.
The isolation deal was made with the CDC, and state and local health officials.
“Unfortunately, the NBC crew violated this agreement and so the Department of Health today issued a mandatory quarantine order to ensure that the crew will remain confined until Oct. 22,” the state Health Department told the Associated Press.
NBC has been silent about the issue and had not responded to requests for comment from journalists so far.
The violation was first reported on Planet Princeton after several readers saw Snyderman in public. The Planet Princeton story was picked up Friday by websites that cover the media industry, including JimRomenesko,com and Mediabistro.
Several Planet Princeton readers reported seeing Snyderman in public this week. One reader allegedly saw Snyderman sitting in her car outside of the Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro Thursday afternoon. A reader reported that a man who was with her got out of the car and went inside the restaurant to pick up a take-out order. Another man was in the back seat of her black Mercedes. Snyderman had sunglasses on and had her hair pulled back, the reader said.
They quarantined the crew?
That will simply speed the spread of Ebola!!
I know that for a fact.
Yes she just happens to know Bubba Clinton. She is from Arkansas or had her practice there in Arkansas.
The mean incubation period was estimated to be 12.7 days (standard deviation 4.31 days), indicating that about 4.1% of patients may have incubation periods longer than 21 days.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766904/
Conclusion
If the risk of new cases is to be reduced to 1% then 25 days should be used when investigating the source of an outbreak, when determining the duration of surveillance for contacts, and when declaring the end of an outbreak.
Keywords: disease outbreaks/prevention & control, Ebola/epidemiology, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola/prevention & control, statistical models
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766904/
And yet at least one of the crew still got this supposedly hard to catch disease...
Wait, I thought the Director of the CDC publicly stated that enforcing a quarantine would speed the spread of Ebola or something.....
Damn...... the messiah’s propagandists are in danger
the plague is now only one degree of separation from the Messiah
Maybe all of the Botox she’s had will kill the virus.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Why aren’t the quarantines enforced from the start? This is the second of two that were violated when they were voluntary. Not importnat enough to tread on someone’s precious rights?
How did Nigeria stop the virus? I thought a US group was going over there to find out. Maybe they didn’t like what they found, like enforcement of various kinds.
She and her crew should not be forced into isolation. The fact that they said they would go into isolation should have been good enough, That’s how Obama operates
(/sarc)
HAS NBC INTRODUCED EBOLA TO NEW YORK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBo_tKt9UU
Was Dr. Snyderman being “hyper-vigilant” when she broke quarantine just to grab a bite to eat?
She’s good enough,
she’s smart enough,
and, doggone it, people like her!
“That’s just stinkin’ thinkin!”
“You’re should-ing all over yourself.”
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt!”
“I am a worthy human being.”
“...and that’s...okay.”
“Trace it, face it, and erase it.”
“I don’t know what I’m doing. They’re gonna cancel the show. I’m gonna die homeless and penniless and twenty pounds overweight and no one will ever love me.”
“I’m in a shame spiral.”
“You’re only as sick as your secrets.”
“Compare and despair.”
“You need a checkup from the neckup.”
“I am a human being, not a human doing.”
-Stuart Smalley
Now a US Senator
His 12-step slogans helped him reach that office!
Stinkin’ thinkin’ is Nancy Synderman’s biggest offense
First, 21 days is not enough. If the average incubation time is 21 days as the CDC claims, some people will show symptoms in 18 days, others will not show symptoms for 24 days. The quarantine should be 30 days. After all, the purpose of the quarantine is to protect the public.
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