A 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea was rushed in an ambulance with police escorts from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.
Craig Spencer, who was was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms a 103-degree fever and nausea spent Wednesday night bowling in Williamsburg, the sources said. He used Uber taxis to get there and back.
He landed at JFK airport on Oct. 17 on a connecting flight from Brussels, a source said. Spencers temperature was 98.7 degrees upon arrival, the source added.
He would have been inconvenienced if we had quarantined travel from Ebola areas ...
I don’t know which mask he’s wearing, but if it is an N95 or a N100 mask either of them aren’t going to help much.
Why?
The Ebola virus is 0.08 microns in diameter.
The N95 mask filters down to 0.3 microns and the N100 mask, 0.1 microns.