<p>^^^Doesn’t mean any of those people were at risk. BODY fluids. Just being in the same building does NOT confer risk. </p>
<p>He was monitoring his temperature twice a day. He began feeling sluggish a couple of days ago, but feeling sluggish is not an Ebola symptom. As soon as he ran a temperature, today, he called the hospital.</p>
<p>Didn’t they close the bridal shop? Vinson’d fever was lower than the doctor’s.</p>
<p>Remember that none of the people LIVING with Thomas Duncan have contracted Ebola. It’s all about the bodily fluids. Do we need to go over to the hysteria thread?</p>
<p>^^^Just because they closed the bridal shop does NOT mean there was actually ANY risk there. I think you get that. </p>
<p>Sounds fishy that his temp went from normal to 103? I wonder if he was running a fever when he initially started feeling sluggish?</p>
<p>I’m asking again, if doctors and nurses are supposed to quarantine themselves after being exposed to Ebola, are all the doctors and nurses treating this patient expected to quarantine themselves starting now?</p>
<p>So, if no one else in NYC or the other boroughs gets sick, then what does that say about the “don’t sit next to anyone on the subway or you could catch it” paranoia.</p>
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<p>^^^ARE doctors and nurses supposed to quarantine themselves? Do the HCW at the 4 biocontainment centers have to quarantine themselves? Or is it that the HCW in Dallas who were shown to be vulnerable for poor protocols or break in protocols have to be isolated?</p>
<p>I’m thinking that the NYC facility is far better prepared than PHD was or the makeshift facilities in Africa might be.</p>
<p>“Per CNN, he first contacted MSF to report his symptoms”</p>
<p>What is MSF? </p>
<p>According to the NYT:</p>
<p>"Dr. Spencer began to feel sluggish on Tuesday but did not develop a fever until Thursday morning, he told the authorities. At 11 a.m., the doctor found that he had a 103-degree temperature and alerted the staff of Doctors Without Borders, according to the official.</p>
<p>The staff of Doctors Without Borders called the city’s health department, which in turn called the Fire Department."</p>
<p>MSF is Doctors Without Borders</p>
<p>MSF is Medecins Sans Frontieres, the French name for Doctors WIthout Borders.</p>
<p>Feeling sluggish is not in itself a symptom of Ebola but if you are 8 days out and you start to feel noticeably sluggish and you are self-monitoring it seems prudent to me to take a wait and see approach with emphasis on wait. Why not wait it out and see if it’s anything? </p>
<p>He might have been feeling sluggish, but how sluggish can you be feeling if you go out for a four-mile run?</p>
<p>Thanks, Terwitt & Sally. Did not know that. </p>
<p>We have heard over and over about contact tracing and how hard it can be the more people travel and move about. If you are a professional working with infectious diseases in an international setting it seems like awareness of setting off a contact tracing bomb would cause you to limit your contacts during your monitoring period.</p>
<p>In my youth I used to run when I was sick with the idea that I could “sweat it out”. As long as I didn’t have chest congestion it felt kind of good - especially if it was raining.</p>
<p>HCW at Bellevue:</p>
<p>“No one has opted out.”</p>
<p>You just have to love the dedicated HCW in this country. Dr. Gary Weinstein in Dallas noted that no assignments had to be made as everyone who took care of Mr. Duncan (and the two nurses) VOLUNTEERED to step up and help.</p>
<p>Makes me proud to be a nurse.</p>
<p>I can’t wait for the all stories in a couple of days about people who have been in NYC this week, return home, and are made to take a leave of absence from their jobs. Time to pop some pop corn. </p>