A Brewster ambulance left with the patient just before 4 p.m., with a police escort. The ambulance driver was wearing a hazmat suit and a facemask. The convoy’s destination could not be immediately confirmed. A second person was later brought out on a stratcher in a hazmat suit and placed in a second ambulance.
Bystander Susan Marini of Quincy said her husband Lareto — who is not the suspected Ebola case — came to Harvard Vanguard seeking treatment of a sore throat shortly before the emergency response began, and then was told he couldn’t leave.
“They just told him this is going to be a long process, be prepared, you might stay overnight,” said Marini, who’d run into a nearby Kmart to get him a drink, only to find the clinic swarmed by emergency responders when she returned.
“I was gone about 10 minutes,” Marini said, adding a police officer told her, “There’s an Ebola scare. Nobody can go in. He’s scared, but he’s OK,” she said of her husband.
My guess is that 99% of these cases will turn out to either be a common illness or a case of nerves on the part of people who either were in West Africa or in contact with someone who was.
That said, it highlights how completely selfish Obama and his CDC minions are. They are needlessly causing panic and wasting millions of dollars with these now daily potential Ebola situations around the country.