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.
What a pig!! Putting others at risssssk over a frickin sandwich!??!!
Wonder if they were as hyper vigilant as the nurse that contracted Ebola from Duncan.
I would like Nancy to answer a question before her team prepares a well written “appall-ogy”. Was she not aware that mothers, fathers, and children live in NJ that may not want to be “potentially” exposed to Ebola? Sadly, that may be the only apology acceptable. Because there is a difference between ignorance and indifference. I can’t help but wonder what her report would say - if it was discovered that one of these NJ mothers, fathers, or children decided to go for take-out when under quarantine. Would she defend that person (and would NBC support her words) publicly saying something such as ‘I understand - your food craving is way more important than the health and safety of the rest of the world.. and how considerate of a person you must be to have waited in the car’ . There is fault forever on her fingertips as she has just planted the idea that any person under quarantine can say “Well, I was (insert any choice action here) so I left quarantine.” Shame.
would NBC support... NBC flew a foreigner to the US who had ebola, I bet they are okay with Doc Contagious
Who is the foreigner?
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