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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.
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.
She’s a doctor. She knows better. No excuse.
probably a lib doctor and thinks the rules apply to all BUT her sorry ass
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.
Second, the state of New Jersey should put armed guards outside where the crew is being held with orders to shoot to kill anyone who emerges from the place of quarantine. If anyone on the crew dies, blood samples should be taken and then the body must be cremated.
90% odds her political contributions were to leftists.
But she’s Nancy Snyderman. She’s on TV, you know.
Like we didn’t all see that one coming. The same DOCTOR Snyderman who said that Ebola wasn’t airborne so it was safe to fly is now traipsing around the city instead of staying in quarantine as she promised. She knows she’s doing wrong so tries to hide behind sunglasses. Some are more equal than others, huh. Low, Nancy. Really low.
AMEN.
Snyderman is a hard left, pro-Obolacare turd.
She should be locked up for a few more than 21 days...
Incubation time is 2 to 21 days. Not average, that’s the time spread. By the end of that if you’ve got it you’ll test positive. If they know to put you under quarantine it’s not about symptoms it’s about blood tests.
lol, okay then why don’t we have a TV crew outside the house so they can broadcast the killing as infotainment. Fortunately it will be the State of New Jersey handling this so I’m sure no one will screw this up. /sarc
Is she the one who shilled for Tylenol when she was employed by NBC -without telling them- and was suspended?
Seems I remember her doing some mea culpa on air.
Do rules even apply to her?
You are right of course. She probably found quarantine not to be fun after she could not longer procure her morning latte.
Doctor’s are smart sure, but they have the same human weaknesses as everyone else ( I should know, I am married to one) My husband knows broccoli is good for him, but he still won’t eat it:)
a voluntary 21-day isolation agreement was violated.
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No sympathy from here ...
Thomas Duncan’s relatives did the same thing..
sent the kids to school and shopped and visited and then let the kids run the streets ..
the law had to go in and make them stay inside...
The median incubation is 5-6 days. At 21 days there is a relatively small chance that the person was infected.
Lead story on tonight’s “Nightly News.”
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
21 days is more than enough for jerks like Thomas Duncan to get himself a plane ticket to the US..
Too bad the bad systems dont show up in mere hours not weeks...
Duncan knew that he was sick or could be BEFORE he even left Liberia...
He was OKed to get on the plane after going through a screening, where he lied like the cowardly dog he was...
someone on FOX this morning suggested that the people wanting to leave West African countries be put in quarantine for 21 days THERE and then if nothing has developed they can get on a plane..
(Of course some liberal ijit said oh noez the African countries cant afford to quarantine anyone but we have the funds to do so here...)
of course there are always some carrier of the disease who could show up at quarantine when the guy was leaving or a few days before and pass it onto him anyway...
Theres no proof that just because a person who was exposed doesn’t get sick they are not a carrier...
those people in quarantine would use the same areas..
150 people arrive in the US every day..
for 21 days that’s 3,000+ people you have to quarantine somewhere ...plus all the rest who are fleeing here ...some of them are going to be in the same building and in the same rooms...
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