Ebola-stricken nurse Amber Vinson may have had symptoms almost a week ago

Complete Headline:Ebola-stricken nurse Amber Vinson may have had symptoms almost a week ago - BEFORE she left Dallas for Ohio, went bridesmaid dress shopping, and flew BACK to Texas

Ebola-stricken nurse Amber Vinson may have been showing symptoms of the deadly virus as early as last Friday - before she flew to Ohio for the weekend and then back to Texas.

The CDC made the shocking announcement on Thursday, after Miss Vinson was revealed as the second medical worker in Dallas to contract Ebola from the U.S.'s 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan.

On October 10, Miss Vinson, 29, may have had Ebola symptoms when she flew out of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on Frontier Airlines Flight 1142 to Cleveland to plan her upcoming wedding, a health official said today.

From a couple of news reports I read, she kept somewhat of a distance from her family and friends in Ohio. Now, you could say, she shouldn’t have even have gone. I’m not saying either way at this point because we don’t have all the facts yet, and I won’t take the CDC’s word on her having symptoms since before she left Texas until that’s confirmed. There does seem to be a pattern with them already trying to shift the blame. One article I read mentioned what nurses claimed to be how they were abandoned to deal with the situation themselves, and included things like that CDC officials went in and out of Duncan’s isolation area without taking proper precautions against tracking the virus out of it. And if she and the other health care workers weren’t told to limit their exposure to others (since they would self-monitor and would find a fever before spreading it), then she really can’t be faulted for going to Ohio. People aren’t likely to cancel a trip out of an abundance of caution that, at the time, seems unnecessary according to their supervisors, who happen to have more advanced medical degrees as well. I also have worked quite a bit in restaurants and a food manufacturing factory, and I am also just personally “germ aware,” but there has to be a point where you put that awareness aside or you’ll become like Howard Hughes. Health care workers have to be able to get a sense, too, after going through the proper procedures, that they are “clean” again, too, otherwise they couldn’t get near patients, or near anyone else afterward. I saw from following the link to this story, I believe, that the restaurant Nancy Snyderman went to for soup is said to be deserted now, and a maid whose brother worked there was fired out of fear she might carry ebola. How rational or well-grounded are those fears, given what we know? What precautions make sense, and what are an overabundance of caution? And finally, if the health care workers who cared for Duncan weren’t under any restrictions or guidelines to limit their contact with others, how about the 70 or so other workers? If you’re not essentially quarantined, you can come into contact with hundreds of people while not leaving the state. Nurse’s aides don’t make much. I take buses and know many of them do , too. What about going to a football game, or to the mall? If they were all told just to self-monitor but could go about their business as usual with no limits on contact with others, then that would tend to be the instructions they would all be following. We’ll have to see about this as time goes on.

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