Second Nurse, Amber Vinson, Contracts Ebola, and CDC Cleared Her to Travel

Unfortunately, a second nurse who was treating Patient Zero (Thomas Duncan), Amber Joy Vinson, age 29, has now tested positively for the Ebola virus.

Amber Joy Vinson, nurse
Amber Joy Vinson, nurse
From NBC News:

Officials have said Vinson had extensive contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas. Medical records provided to The Associated Press by Duncan’s family show Vinson inserted catheters, drew blood, and dealt with Duncan’s body fluids.

However, the ripple effects this time may be even larger. Nurse Vinson had flown to visit her mother and plan for her upcoming wedding last weekend, and flew home to Dallas from Cleveland with a low grade fever of 99.5 degrees.

Federal health officials were trying to track down and interview all 132 people on the flight, Frontier Airlines Flight 1143. Still, Frieden said that there was “an extremely low likelihood” that anyone on the flight was exposed to Ebola.

“She did not vomit. She was not bleeding,” Frieden said. “So the level of risk of people around her should be extremely low.”

Wait, WHAT??? We have been told over and over by the CDC and its head, Dr. Thomas Frieden, that Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear. Symptoms appear, and now we’re being told not to worry about it???

And after several hours of Frieden saying that Vinson “should not have been allowed to travel” because she had been exposed to Ebola, and letting the media run with the story that Vinson recklessly exposed people to the virus, we now get THIS news:

Just great. Nicely done, CDC. If this is true, Amber Vinson attempted to alert the CDC, who told her to go ahead and go back to Dallas. Someone at the CDC should be clearing out their desk THIS VERY MINUTE for that one.

Vinson is being transferred via air ambulance from Dallas to Emory University in Atlanta, where the first American Ebola patients were treated. And those new and improved CDC protocols to make sure that Ebola can’t be spread any more?

Everyone feel better now?

Be praying for the recovery of Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, and pray that no one else comes down with this virus.

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