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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Texas Presbyterian Hospital nurses Nina Pham, Amber Vinson have officially tested free of Ebola
2014-10-25
Dallas Presbyterian Hospital nurses Nina Pham, Amber Vinson have officially tested free of Ebola.

Nina Pham was discharged from the NIH hospital in Washington DC & briefly met with the president before leaving for her home. Officials at Emory Hospital in GA also officially confirmed Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, but she remains hospitalized.

Nina is “cured of Ebola,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Let’s get that clear. That’s for sure.”

And it was: Pham, dressed in a blue business suit and a turquoise top, hugged Fauci and delivered a brief statement to the media upon her release.

“Throughout this ordeal, I have put my trust in God and my medical team,” said Pham. “I am on my way to recovery even as I reflect on how so many others haven’t been so fortunate.” She also thanked Fort Worth doctor Kent Brantly, who donated some of his plasma, for his “selfless” act.

Pham met briefly with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office before her return to Dallas. The president hugged the nurse and wished her well before she walked out of the White House and got in a waiting car.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said no extra precautions were taken to protect the president. A “clean bill of health” from the NIH is good enough, he said.

"Fauci said workers administered five separate tests, and she tested negative each time. He also said Pham was not given an experimental drug."
Dr. Brantley's plasma may not be considered an experimental drug, but giving it to Pham was an experimental treatment, unless treating acute Ebola with plasma from Ebola survivors is considered the standard.
It pretty much is now and was recognized as a therapy in the past. You just couldn't do such a thing in a third world country because they didn't have the ability to separate the plasma, test it to be sure it was free of other pathogens, and check to ensure that the antibody titer was appropriate. And so on. One of the advantages of being desperately ill in a first-world country...
WaPo does not even have this as its leading article, which seems strange. It does mention this: "The federal government is considering altering protocols for doctors and health-care workers who return to the U.S. from West Africa, the New York governor said."

About time. I wonder what the protocol for the NIH and Emory U hospital caretakers of Ebola patients now is.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#10  Your articles are in the hopper for tomorrow, and you did everything right, anon1. No worries.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-10-25 21:05  

#9  hello mods apologies if there is a double ebola post in the system... i posted a link but it didn't show so i tried again in case i forgot, and it didn't show again.

anyhoo, they are saying they will have several hundred thousand ebola vaccines by next June.

By my calculations next June will see 5 million new infections (if it keeps going along the same trajectory which it hasn't yet deviated from)
Posted by: anon1   2014-10-25 20:13  

#8  I hope that ebola is not like chickenpox whereas it leaves a lasting legacy in your system and causes something like shingles or something worse that we don't yet know about.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-25 19:11  

#7  Return of the prodigal nurse!
A blessing replaces a curse:
Surviving this illness
Will get you the business
Instead of a bleach-scented hearse.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-10-25 14:14  

#6  
Posted by: Whulet Shavins7256   2014-10-25 08:22  

#5  
Posted by: Whulet Shavins7256   2014-10-25 08:02  

#4  Such a major celebration for an illness to the young lady that was 100% preventable. True leftist propaganda: advertising success of solving a problem of their own making.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-10-25 07:42  

#3  Being testing 'free from Ebola' is no guarantee you'll be used as a regime PR prop. I only hug and kiss womens for the camera.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-25 06:09  

#2  Spain: Ebola-stricken nurse Teresa Romero has improved & has had 2 negative Ebola blood tests. Estimates are she will spend another week in hospital. She received an older version of ZMapp and immune serum infusions from a Spanish nun who survived her own Ebola infection in Liberia.
Now Teresa is fully compos mentis, she says she does not remember touching her face with her gloves whilst taking off her biohazard suit after treating missionary doctor Manuel García Viejo, who died from Ebola after being repatriated in a critical condition.

In her confused and delirious state in the early stages of her illness, she said she ‘probably said yes to whatever they asked’ her.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-10-25 01:40  

#1  Illinois governor joins NY & NJ in ordering 21-day quarantine for Ebola patient contacts from the Hot Zone.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced Friday that he has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to require a mandatory 21-day home quarantine for "high-risk" individuals who have had direct contact with anyone infected with the Ebola virus while in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.

The directive was issued to every local health department in Illinois.

According to a news release issued by the governor's office, the mandatory quarantine order includes any high-risk medical personnel who have performed medical services to individuals infected with the Ebola virus.

The order will be implemented by local health departments across the state. Previously such medical personnel were subject to a voluntary quarantine.

The move also comes after the governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a similar if not the same mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly disease in West Africa.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the case of Dr. Craig Spencer led them to conclude that the two states need precautions more rigorous than those of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends monitoring of exposed people for 21 days but doesn't require quarantine, in which they are kept away from others.

"It's too serious a situation to leave it to the honor system of compliance," Cuomo said.

Those in the two states who are forcibly quarantined will be confined either to their homes or, if they live in other states, to some other place, most likely a medical facility, the governors said. Those quarantined at home will receive house calls from health officials. Twenty-one days is the incubation period for the Ebola virus.

Dr. Howard Zucker, acting New York state health commissioner, said any medical personnel who have treated Ebola patients in the three Ebola-ravaged West African countries -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia -- will be automatically quarantined.

An Obama administration official said federal officials have been considering similar quarantine requirements for some time. But the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss deliberations by name, said the Obama administration was not yet ready to take that step at the federal level.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-10-25 01:01  

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