Posted on 10/16/2014 7:52:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Hospital officials in New Haven have quarantined a patient with Ebola-like symptoms as a precaution.
Officials tell Eyewitness News that the patient was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital.
The hospital released a statement Thursday morning.
"Yale-New Haven Hospital admitted a patient late Wednesday night for evaluation of Ebola-like symptoms," the hospital said. "We have not confirmed or ruled-out any diagnosis at this point. We are working in cooperation with city, state and federal health officials. There is no further information available at this time."
Officials said they'll know more later in the day.
There's no word on the patient's condition or identity.
Mayor Toni Harp met with city officials Thursday morning at 10 a.m. at the city's Emergency Operations Center. They planned to brief the media afterward. The state Department of Public Health said it was aware of the case.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfsb.com ...
Oct. 16: Ebola-like symptoms.
Officials aren't saying who it is, but it is likely one of these two, and was admitted last night.
Media was not allowed in the briefing for officials.
I believe they’ve now confirmed it was a Yale researcher who was in Liberia
There is a live feed at the link, currently showing reporters waiting on the presser.
Tweets from Robert Goulston WFSB -
New Haven officials: Yale researcher checked in with Ebola-like symptoms. The student has previously tested negative when left Liberia.
News conference scheduled for 12:30 at Yale New Haven’s Bradley conference center.
If confirmed, this will result in a response. Yale is “real” to the elites, unlike Texas or Ohio.
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I wonder if they’ll get extra credit for catching Ebola?
I smell some lawsuits. Anyone who can afford to send their kids to Yale probably already has a good lawyer.
We will find out much more about Ebola once the November elections are over. Releasing information now might harm Democrats up for election.
My wife works there. She’s in lower management and is required to respond to crises. It’s a good thing she doesn’t have to work till next Friday.
I can’t see the feed from this computer so if you’d be kind and post a summary of any updates, I’d truly appreciate it!
PS: Didn’t the Yale Ebola research center (name??) already lose a number of researchers to Ebola earlier in the epidemic?
More on this from Twitter.
Unconfirmed...
The University apparently asked the two to “Sequester themselves” for 21 days, and they refused.
I’m here at Yale New Haven Hospital right now as I work as an EMT in New Haven. The PPE supplies are stacked to the ceiling and we’re de-con-ing every surface coming and going. You call 911 in New Haven today and be prepared to wait a bit longer.
Anyone who can afford to send their kids to Yale probably IS a good lawyer
An older news report but doesn’t have a date.
NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) -
Two students from Yale University are in West Africa after helping the Liberian government after the Ebola outbreak.
The students are part of the Public Health doctoral program. They have been in Liberia since mid-September advising the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on computer systems to monitor the outbreak.
Their fellow students have been closely monitoring their travels.
“I don’t think they should let any stigma associated with Ebola affect the work they’re doing,” said Alex Hua, of the Yale School of Public Health.
Yale originally said the two students would be coming home this weekend and they would be voluntarily isolating themselves for three weeks, which is the incubation period for Ebola.
However, on Monday, the university said the students are still in Liberia and the exact return date has not been determined.
The two students are also closely following travel guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to assure their safety and the safety of their colleagues back home.
With one person being treated for Ebola and the head of the CDC saying more could be expected, places like Yale-New Haven Hospital are tightening protocols.
“We are reinforcing with Emergency Department staff to ask travel history from all patients. This is being added to the normal triage checklist along with a simple algorithm of what to do next if a patient has had travel within the last 21 days to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea or Nigeria,” hospital officials said.
Ebola is also a priority at Protein Sciences in Meriden, where they are working with the federal government to develop a vaccine.
“It would be used for researchers who don’t want to research the virus because they don’t want to work in it because it’s too dangerous,” said Dan Adams of Protein Sciences.
Yale officials said that the students have never been in contact with anyone who was sick but that is not stopping them from being extra cautious.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/26716874/yale-students-staying-in-west-africa-following-ebola-outbreak
“I’m here at Yale New Haven Hospital right now as I work as an EMT in New Haven.”
Good luck, FRiend...
Try to keep us informed, would you?
This old “no symptoms - no problem” crap must change. While they’re waiting to get symptoms they’re spreading the virus.
The patient was admitted LAST NIGHT, but nobody in the media learned it until TODAY???
I’m betting the new “protocol” is to keep as many of these cases under wraps as they can, until after election day.
From Twitter:
President Obama cancels trip CT today for briefing on #Ebola. First case of Ebola at Yale/New Haven hospital, coincidence?
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