Ebola doctor ‘lied’ about NYC travels
Stick this in your honor system.
The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.
Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.
“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.
Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.
Officials then retraced Spencer’s steps, which included dining at The Meatball Shop in Greenwich Village and bowling at The Gutter in Brooklyn.
Yep, these heroes are really special.
I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Ebola quarantines: catch the fever!
Heroic Ebola doctors and nurses lie to police, blow off voluntary isolation
John Hayward, not someone whose ideas I generally regard with favor, gets it on this.
Science and isolation
The most important fact about Ebola is how little we know.
There’s no cure for the infected, no vaccine and no knowledge of how the virus might behave in colder temperatures.
Doctors, nurses and missionaries who nobly volunteer in Africa could inadvertently bring Ebola to every continent, literally giving the virus wings.
To be cautious, Samaritan’s Purse, a relief organization, has imposed a 21-day isolation on workers returning from West Africa ever since one of its own, Dr. Kent Brantly, became infected.
The hospital where Spencer practices emergency medicine requires a 21-day wait to return to work.
On Monday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that all U.S. troops returning from West Africa undergo a 21-day quarantine.
Their biggest worry isn’t stigma.
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