State of ME says... #KaciHickox roommate in Africa tested positive for Ebola [risk has passed]

Twitter/NECN ^ | 10/31/14 | Marnie MacLean

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

State of ME says it believes #KaciHickox roommate in Africa tested positive for Ebola but any risk to Kaci from that incident has passed

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

This is from a reporter at NECN, the New England Cable Network.

Also reported on CNN. No further info.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Link to reporter's Twitter feed.

[DoughtyOne]

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...so she was exposed to someone with Ebola!


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[NautiNurse]

The Debbie Wasserman-Schultz look alike should be a bit more humble today with this news. I've said all along that she is PO'd because she expected ticker tape parades in her honor upon return from Africa. Otherwise, she is an arrogant hussy.

/vent spleen

[Iron Munro]

Staying quarantined and out of sight in your own country doesn’t bring quite the same cachet in liberal circles as publicly sacrificing yourself by flying to Africa on a mercy mission to comfort infected Hottentots.

[Ray76]

She had her fingers in the mouth of a dying ebola infected person. - http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20141025-uta-grad-isolated-at-new-jersey-hospital-as-part-of-ebola-quarantine.ece

Recall that Dr. Spencer followed all protocols and does not know how he contracted ebola. He cleared airport screening, felt healthy, appeared healthy, and several days later was in the hospital testing positive for ebola.

The incubation period for ebola is 2-21 days, usually 10 days.

Hickox may or may not have ebola. Eight days ago she had her fingers in the mouth of an ebola patient. Just as with Dr. Spencer, she could have ebola despite following protocol. Why is she making such an uproar? I hope for her sake she doesn’t have ebola, we’ll know in about 13 days.

[Tennessee Nana]

Alternate headline

Roommate of Ebola Nurse Has Ebola, Boyfriend Sedated

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your take on it.

I was unaware of her full exposure. Good grief!

[Red Badger]

Cagey Cretins

Blue Oyster Cult from Secret Treaties
written by Bouchard / Meltzer

Ooo Cagey, what you got?
What you got there, dummy?
What you got there, man?
Ooo Cagey, what you got?
What you got there, honey?
What is it, a worm?

Dumb clouds are raging
Stupid clouds at my door
Creepy weather coming
Coming ‘round my floor
Dumb clouds stay away
Don’t come back no more

Ooo Cagey, what you got?
Got an awful tummy
Oh no, it’s inflamed
Ooo Cagey, what you got?
It’s so lonely, honey
In the state of Maine

Dumb clouds are raging
Stupid clouds at my door
Creepy weather coming
Coming ‘round my floor
Dumb clouds stay away
Don’t come back no more

I’m graduating in one more term
Because I haven’t any time to burn
Repeating taste of high-heeled shoe
An eel is waiting under the train
Being chased around by the neighbor’s cat
Well, it’s so lonely in the state of Maine

Dumb clouds are ringing
Ringing in my ear
Mother’s wombs are crying
Ringing in my fear
Mothers never run
Except when rape is near

Ooo Cagey

[Resettozero]

From Jersey to Maine to...

How ‘bout north of Newfoundland?

Or upper Greenland?

[Ray76]

She immediately began complaining about how returning health care workers are treated, saying “she’s afraid”. This strikes me as very unprofessional.

Given that her lawyer, Norman Siegel, has connections to the W.H. and the ACLU (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3221523/posts?page=113#113) I suspect Hickox’s motivations.

[Paulie]

Looks like ol’ Kaci will not be going to any cocktail parties this weekend after all.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

She needs to be marked with a Scarlet “E” to warn the public she has been exposed to Ebola.

[cynwoody]

The incubation period for ebola is 2-21 days, usually 10 days.

Half become ill before 5.5 days; half after.

Here's a chart from a CDC report, showing the distribution of incubation times across 5,000 cases:

The median incubation is 5.5 days. The mean is 6 days. And 21 days is the 99th percentile, not the limit, as can be seen from the chart.

Here's another link (to the WHO), which claims that 21 days is only the 95th percentile, 42 days is the 98th percentile, and 2% get lost in the jungle or something. Hopefully, the CDC is right.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know why only seeing pictures of her, but she struck me as your conventional weirded out rogue Democrat non-conformist. “Only the knaves need pay attention to the rules, and I’m above that.”

[Dr. Ursus]

I know she’s a operative for the CDC,but I can’t find out if she’s a RN.

[Resettozero]

Call her Ebola Kaci anyway. Just because.

[kaila]

What is really interesting to me is that we have not heard from her family, past employers, co workers, school mates.
I wonder if this witch has alienated people around her, the latest being the people of Maine.

[greeneyes]

Maybe because she looks like Debbie Washerwomen Schultz?LOL

[DoughtyOne]

Could be. All I know is that I pegged her the moment I saw here. So for it’s been a fairly accurate assumption.