Craig Spencer Linkedin FDNY hazardous materials specialists have sealed-off Craig Spencer’s apartment on W. 147th St. Craig Spencer Linkedin FDNY hazardous materials specialists have sealed-off Craig Spencer’s apartment on W. 147th St.Good think he wasn’t living in a high density urban environment. Otherwise, he might take public transit or something.
(Hope he’s negative or survives anyhow....)
Oughtn’t we quarantine all visitors and returnees from ebola hot spots? The good doctor was at least smart enough to do that himself. Others will not be so aware or diligent.
So wait, he ONLY quarantined himself AFTER developing symptoms or has he quarantined himself for the entire time he has been back from Guinea? I wonder what the left will think about Ebola in New York, after all, they have been giving Ebola big hugs and kisses for weeks
Obola strikes again!
New York City is much more concentrated population density wise than Dallas. Hope he was self-monitoring and stayed away from people, which is hard to do in NYC.
A number of doctors with ‘Doctors without Borgders’ have died of ebola.
Scratch Bellevue from ongoing operations, but hey,...............That's the fundamental change in America that New York voted for.
I hear the patient's IV solution bags are limited to 12 ounce sizes out of fear of violating the CDC Director's Big Gulp policies in New York City.
The Time Lord?
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Oh, wait...
Dr. Nicole Lurie 
Or...
?
I Wonder what the salary for these two come to and how many underlings have they hired to man their bureaucracies also costing the taxpayer for piggy-back gov'ment jobs and perks.
Yippee! The good doc, just back from treating Ebola patients took public transport to a popular bowling alley LAST NIGHT!
This will RUIN Bellevue Hospital for quite a while!!
Self imposed non supervised quarantines are not likely to have the appropriate level of isolation. This young physician had to eat and obtain food during this period, his garbage had to be collected,he may have had uninvited visitors etc. etc. Yet he is a physician and it is likely he took some precautions that may have been effective. However this case underscores the fact that since there is no vaccine, effective definitive treatment or commercially available diagnostic test, travelers from West Africa who can be infected but remain asymptomatic for up to four weeks will get sick in the US. They are not medically trained. It is not wise to assume that a non supervised, unenforced quarantine will be effective.
Did Der KossimiCzar approve this news story? IIRC, we are not supposed to read about suspected ebola cases.
Reading the full article - Brussels apparently a major hub for west African
travelers. Have to wonder if Belgium is about to have an outbreak.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...