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NYC Doctor Confirmed Positive For Ebola; Contact With Girlfriend (Quarantine) & 3 Others; "Unlikely" Contagious On Subway
UPDATE:
- *PATIENT IN NYC TESTS POSITIVE FOR EBOLA, NEW YORK TIMES SAYS
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT GIRLFRIEND QUARANTINED: CNN
- *S&P 500, NASDAQ 100 FUTURES EXTEND DECLINES ON EBOLA REPORT
- *TREASURIES ADVANCE AS NYC EBOLA REPORT SPURS DEMAND FOR SAFETY
.@CBSNews confirms physician in NYC's Bellevue Hospital being tested for Ebola is Dr. Craig Spencer. He worked for Doctors Without Borders.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) October 23, 2014
NY Gov Cuomo and NYC Mayor de Blasio to hold a 9P ET news conference regarding the patient being tested for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) October 24, 2014
THIS JUST IN: At approximately 9 PM, Mayor @BilldeBlasio will host a press conference with @NYGovCuomo at Bellevue Hospital.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) October 24, 2014
Press Conference Live Feed (via NYC Live)
Headlines from the press conference:
De Blasio:
- *TESTING CONFIRMS PATIENT IS POSITIVE FOR EBOLA: DE BLASIO
- *NYC HAS PREPARED FOR MONTHS FOR THREAT FROM EBOLA: DE BLASIO
- *BELLEVUE HOSPITAL IN NYC IS A DESIGNATED EBOLA CENTER
- *EVERY HOSPITAL IN NYC PREPARED FOR PATIENTS: DE BLASIO
Cuomo: "There is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed"
- *NYC HAD BENEFIT OF LEARNING FROM DALLAS: CUOMO
- *EBOLA PATIENT HAD WORKED WITH DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: CUOMO
- *NEW YORK `FULLY COORDINATED WITH AGENCIES, U.S. GOV.: CUOMO
- *HAVE IDENTIFIED 4 PEOPLE IN CONTACT WITH EBOLA PATIENT: CUOMO
- *HEALTH OFFICIALS IN CONTACT WITH THOSE IDENTIFIED: CUOMO
Mary Basset - NYC Health Commissioner
- *HOSPITAL EBOLA TEST TO BE CONFIRMED BY CDC WITHIN 24 HRS
- *EBOLA PATIENT RETURNED TO NYC FROM GUINEA THIS MONTH: BASSETT
- *EBOLA PATIENT HAD SYMPTOMS BEGIN EARLIER TODAY: BASSETT
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT LEFT GUINEA ON OCT. 14: BASSETT
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT HAD FIRST FEVER SYMPTOM TODAY: BASSETT
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT WENT ON 3-MILE JOG: BASSETT
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT WENT TO BOWLING ALLEY YESTERDAY: BASSETT
- *EBOLA PATIENT USED SUBWAYS, WENT TO BOWLING ALLEY: BASSETT
- *EBOLA PATIENT HAD CONTACT WITH GIRLFRIEND, 2 FRIENDS: BASSETT
- *TRANSPORTATION DRIVER NOT THOUGHT TO BE AT RISE: BASSETT
- *UBER DRIVER IN CONTACT W/ PATIENT CONSIDERED NOT AT RISK
Zucker - Acting health commissioner:
- *EBOLA PATIENT BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL WITH PROTECTIVE GEAR
- *EBOLA PATIENT IN SPECIAL ISOLATION UNIT AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
- *ZUCKER SAYS WE LOOK FWD TO QUICK RECOVERY FOR EBOLA PATIENT
CDC Frieden:
- *BELLEVUE HOSPITAL HAS BEEN `DRILLING' FOR EBOLA PATIENTS: CDC
- *CDC SENDING EBOLA RESPONSE TEAM TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT RETURNED THROUGH JFK AIRPORT OCT. 17: CDC
Q&A:
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT WAS AT GUTTER BOWLING ALLEY YESTERDAY:BASSETT
- *BOWLING ALLEY VISITED BY PATIENT IS CLOSED, TO BE INSPECTED
- *ONE OF OTHER PATIENT CONTACTS IS IN HOSPITAL NOW: BASSETT
- *BELLEVUE HEALTH WORKERS USING FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR: BASSETT
- *PATIENT APARTMENT IS ISOLATED, BLOCKED TO VISITORS: BASSETT
- *PATIENT'S NEIGHBORS AREN'T UNDER QUARANTINE: BASSETT
- *PATIENT, A DOCTOR, DID ATTEMPT TO `SELF-ISOLATE': BASSETT
- *EBOLA PATIENT LIMITED CONTACT WITH FRIENDS, OTHERS: BASSETT
- *EBOLA CONTAGIOUSNESS RELATED TO HOW SICK YOU ARE: ZUCKER
- *EBOLA `A DIFFICULT DISEASE TO CONTRACT': DE BLASIO
- *NYC EBOLA PATIENT TOOK `A' TRAIN, `L' TRAIN YESTERDAY: BASSETT
- *`EXTREMELY UNLIKELY' PATIENT SPREAD EBOLA ON SUBWAY: BASSETT
- *ZUCKER SAYS HE'D RIDE NYC SUBWAY TOMORROW
- *ALL CONTACTS WITH EBOLA PATIENT `ARE WELL,' NOT BEING TESTED
- *CONTACTS WITH EBOLA PATIENT WON'T BE TESTED UNTIL INDICATIONS
The market's reaction...
Some background color:
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Just when you thought it was safe to assume that Ebola-in-America was fixed (one day into Ron Klain's tenure as Ebola Czar), NYPost reports some rather disquieting news. A New York City doctor - who returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea 10 days ago - has been rushed under police escort to Bellevue Hospital... He is being tested for Ebola. Market liquidity has dried up instantly!
- *PATIENT BEING TESTED AT BELLEVUE FOR POSSIBLE EBOLA, NYC SAYS
- *NYC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE STATEMENT SOON, SPOKESMAN SAYS
- *NYC: PATIENT WITH FEVER, GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS AT BELLEVUE
- *NYC SAYS PATIENT EBOLA TEST RESULTS EXPECTED WITHIN 12 HOURS
- *NYC TRACING ALL OF PATIENT'S CONTACTS
- *NYC HEALTH DEPARTMENT ALSO WORKING CLOSELY WITH HHC
Update #2:
- POSSIBLE NYC EBOLA PATIENT DID NOT SELF-QUARANTINE: CNN
- POSSIBLE NYC EBOLA PATIENT TOOK UBER TO BOWLING ALLEY YDAY: CNN
Possible NY #Ebola patient is Dr. Craig Spencer who works w/ Doctors Without Borders http://t.co/xEks9hRjbN pic.twitter.com/Dlu6xoEm32
— CBSDFW (@CBSDFW) October 23, 2014
Dr Craig Spencer, 33, who returned to the U.S. ten days ago from Guinea, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital in midtown Manhattan on Thursday and is being cared for in isolation.
The doctor flew to Africa on September 18 to treat patients in Guinea with non-profit organization, Medecins San Frontieres (MSF).
The medic works at Columbia University Medical Center and originally comes from Detroit, Michigan.
Investigators were taking the case seriously because it is not believed that the doctor self-quarantined on his return from Guinea, CNN reported.
On September 18, Dr Spencer tweeted a picture of himself wearing a full yellow hazmat suit and face mask with the message: 'Off to Guinea with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Please support organizations that are sending support or personnel to West Africa, and help combat one of the worst public health and humanitarian disasters in recent history.'
On October 16, he checked in at a hotel in Brussels, Belgium, presumably on his return journey from Guinea to the U.S.
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Full Statement on Patient at Bellevue Hospital
Today, EMS HAZ TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.
The patient is a health care worker who returned to the U.S. within the past 21 days from one of the three countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus.
The patient was transported by a specially trained HAZ TAC unit wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). After consulting with the hospital and the CDC, DOHMH has decided to conduct a test for the Ebola virus because of this patient’s recent travel history, pattern of symptoms, and past work. DOHMH and HHC are also evaluating the patient for other causes of illness, as these symptoms can also be consistent with salmonella, malaria, or the stomach flu.
Preliminary test results are expected in the next 12 hours.
Bellevue Hospital is designated for the isolation, identification and treatment of potential Ebola patients by the City and State. New York City is taking all necessary precautions to ensure the health and safety of all New Yorkers.
As a further precaution, beginning today, the Health Department’s team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient’s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. The Health Department staff has established protocols to identify, notify, and, if necessary, quarantine any contacts of Ebola cases.
The Health Department is also working closely with HHC leadership, Bellevue’s clinical team and the New York State Department of Health to ensure that all staff caring for the patient do so while following the utmost safety guidelines and protocols.
Bellevue and the New York State Department of Health to ensure that all staff caring for the patient do so while following the utmost safety guidelines and protocols.
The chances of the average New Yorker contracting Ebola are extremely slim. Ebola is spread by directly touching the bodily fluids of an infected person. You cannot be infected simply by being near someone who has Ebola.
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A doctor who returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago was rushed in an ambulance with a police escort from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.
He was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms — a 103-degree fever and nausea, sources said.
While he was in Africa, the doctor had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.
He’s undergoing testing at Bellevue to see if he has the deadly virus, sources said.
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NBC reports that...
He was transported from a building on 147th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue to Bellevue, law enforcement source said.
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USDJPY was first to move then stocks...
and VIX was well bid...
...and S&P futures liquidty disappeared...
EMini liquidity fell off a cliff $ES_F $SPY pic.twitter.com/kZSQzMYCVi
— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) October 23, 2014
And then another exchange Breaks...
- *BATS OPTIONS HAS DECLARED SELF-HELP AGAINST ISE GEMINI
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And jetwash when there's vomit.
This "abundance of caution" rationale we keep hearing from CDC, etc...
How come that standard isn't being applied to letting people from Ebola-ridden countries into/back into the U.S. and running around among the population, like Dr. Spencer, without going through a 21-day quarantine period?
I'm calling bullshit on this whole shitshow.
That's just too logical.
Wait until after the elections. HHS will be giving every community its own ebola "detectives", armed with all the military might required for fighting this virus.
China will still buy in here, won't they?
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola on Thursday, becoming the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the hemorrhagic fever, which has killed nearly 4,900 people.
Mali's Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western town of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began.
geez, I had an unthought of conspiracy
CDC on the job... http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/chronology.html
number of reported cases - 5481*
number of deaths based on reported cases - 2946 (54%)*
-> *Numbers reflect laboratory confirmed cases only.
Bing bing bing - we have a winner ! So why do the CDC numbers not agree with WHO?
The number of Ebola cases so far this year: 9,936. How many people have been killed by Ebola: 4,877. These are the official figures put out by the World Health Organization, widely regarded as the authority on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Hope he didn't handle any folding money or coin.
Oh yea, and who cleaned his toilet bowls and wastebaskets, and used kleenexTM for last 10 days all over Belgium, airplane, JFK, subway, apartment, work, bowling alley, restaurants...who sat down in the same chair(s) right after him ?
..escalator rails, elevaor buttons, doors, sneeze, restaurant meals...
anyone else notice the photographer in the background without any protective gear taking a photo of the new york doctor?
The ONLY way to be really sure is to have a 40 day quarantine, hole-up, for all NYC residents and Long Island, and Conneticut, and New Jersey.
No problem.
Sounds like a great plan, and while they are at it hire a bunch of Class Action Lawyers to SUE the Federal government for gross negligence in not implementing mandatory quarantines on all Ebola Exit Travellers for economic loss, loss of sales etc.
The solution to Ebola is Lawsuits.
The Feds cannot be sued unless they approve it... They're sovereign and all that.
I highly doubt they would allow a class action suit like that.
WTF Medicin Sans Frontallobes?
Do you not teach your doctors how to self quarantine after handling EBOLA CORPSES??
I hope he spent some time hanging around GS and JPM.
He might have gone to the Central Park Zoo and petted the 12 monkeys.
Has he appointed an Attorney yet?
Better claim his entitlements before he bleeds to death through his ass.
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO CALL A LAWYER. Gross negligence and reckless endangerment causing financial loss :
The government should be DROWNING IN LAWSUITS.
They KNOW there is an outbreak. They KNOW it's out of control. They KNOW the incubation period, so to let people fly HERE is total culpalbility and gross negligence.
NO FLIGHT OUT BEFORE A 21 DAY QUARANTINE - PERIOD. NO PROVEN QUARANTINE WHEN YOU COME YOU AUTOMATICALLY ARE ORDERED INTO SELF-QUARANTINE FOR 21 DAYS. PROBLEM SOLVED. SKIN COLOR DOES NOT EXEMPT YOU.
http://sgtreport.com/2014/10/busted-formaldehyde-dumped-in-liberian-wate...
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Omg we're all gonna die
Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln,how was the bowling?
So, in NYC today, an ax-wielding, deranged, jihadist wannabe endangered a couple of cops, while the Dr. endangered scores of strangers...
So, didn't they shoot and kill the wrong guy?
Just sayin'..
Here’s a joke about ebola, you probably won’t get it though.
Bill de Blasio, the city's mayor, said “Being on the same subway car or living near a person with Ebola does not in itself put someone at risk,”.
That's right Bill, you only get it when someone squirts their juice onto you, and that NEVER happens in New York, right?
Let's see Red Bill ride the Subway.....
New York Health Commissioner, Mary Travis Bassett said "He had flown into JFK where he had been subjected to screening when he had shown no sign of the illness."
SCREENING DOESN'T WORK. CLOSE THE BORDERS.
yes, they should or do a mandatory quarantine period like when you bring your pet from another country. Why is it so hard to comprehend and get it done. I tell you why becoz they want that dame virus spread in the US, that's WHY!
And for the person that ticked the -1, your a frigging moron and idiot!
OK....So let's assume this man took all the necessary precautions as indicated in the photo - afterall, he IS a doctor, right? He knows better, right? He knows to wear a HAZ suit, right? He knows how to take the HAZ suiit off, right? And he was confident enough upon return from Africa that he did not see the necessity of self-quarantine.
So tell, me. If he took all the right precautions, why did he get Ebola anyway? Do we REALLY know how this ddisease is spread?
The answer to your question might not be what you expect.
Some very serious claims here by American law professor - alleges that Ebola is US bio-warfare:
http://www.today.ng/news/exposed-ebola-is-a-us-bio-warfare-with-africans...
DON'T PANIC!
On second thoughts, PANIC!
They shut down the bowling centre he attended to sanitise it, let me guess they didn't do they same with the NY transport system he travelled on ?
Hows that for a Schizophrenic approach to an abundance of caution health care ? Surface contamination can last for weeks with ebola. Guess the masses on the transport are cleared already for the next month !
LOL at the CNN reporter , playing down the risks , to keep the sheeple from thinking outside their own boxes, who said with glee, ' I'll even be taking the same train that the doctor did ' . It's people taking risks like that , that are gonna make this thing BLOW.
Yes, nothing like challenging an incurable virus. C'mon ebola, bring it!
His girlfriend doesn't look like a virgin.
Doctor without borders returns home to country without borders.
CALL THE LAWYERS : GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND AIRLINE CULPABILITY IN *NOT* ENFORCING A PROPER QUARANTINE BEFORE YOU FLY PROGRAM
CALL THE LAWYERS PEOPLE SERIOUSLY : GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND AIRLINE CULPABILITY IN *NOT* ENFORCING A PROPER QUARANTINE BEFORE YOU FLY PROGRAM
IF WE ALL CALLED LAWYERS : and filed financial loss lawsuits for GROSS NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (AND) THE AIRLINES FOR NOT ENFORCING A PROPER QUARANTINE BEFORE YOU FLY PROGRAM
*THIS* GARBAGE would disappear overnight.
cnm, you would find the courts would rule: You have no standing. No citizen has standing in court these days not even candidates who see outright voter fraud in the election of ineligible candidate: Obola his self.
Excactly. They should spend the incubation time in a known safe zone for the incubation period. These are supposedly medical doctors! Is there some kind of stupid virus going around too? The coppers throwing their protective gear in city trash cans.
Of course you have some here that insinuate we should thank him for trying to help people in Africa. Ok, Thank you BUT good intentions don't cut it when you return to infect a city of millions. Does anyone think his lady friend will thank him if she comes down with it.
Of course last time I was in NYC it was so dirty I left. Ebola might not stand a chance in that city. Okay,,, I'm ready for the down arrows.
Paging Dr. Death, paging Dr. Death - Dr. Death please pickup on line 666........
We need to proverbial EBOWLING...cartoon up soon!!
Yeah! People in hazmat suits bowling!
Wm. Banzai, are you listening? :-D
"MSF was created on the belief that all people have the right to medical care regardless of gender, race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people outweigh respect for national boundaries"
Saying that you are not political and implying that you are above politics is similar to saying that being an atheist is not a religion.
Ebolaing Alley!
This website has been up-down-up-down all night and into this morning, starting not long after the NYC ebola news last night. That much traffic or is some entity purposely fucking things up for us visitors?
After his being gone for so long you don't suppose he and his girlfreind um, "swapped bodily fluids" do you?
Really? This guy, unlike most commenters on this hate mongering site, tries to help people and all you can do is trash him?
Jeez, you're right, I feel terrible now.
There's absolutely nothing that says charity like contracting a deadly disease and then strolling around one of the world's most densely packed cities because you couldn't be bothered to self quarentine.
How selfish of us.
I'll bet his girlfriend will be celebrating his magnanimous gesture as she begins to squirt her intestines through her anus.
It's laudable (and heroic even) that this guy (and others like him) went to W. Africa to help Ebola patients. Truly.
But his behavior afterwards has been utterly foolish and reckless. There is no test for Ebola when symptoms are not showing, so logic says, there's no way he could know (or have confidence) that he did not have it. His thinking (as guaged by his actions) was appalling; it's like he treated the whole situation as a gamble, and chose to gamble with others' lives and with their businesses (and with the livelihoods of all who work at those businesses). Gee, thanks doc.
As the old Puritan saying goes, "It's not a very good doctor who can only cure you of one disease by giving you another."
I'll bet that was an uncomfortable conversation...
"Honey, meet me at the Ebola ward at Bellvue.
There's something I have to tell you."
And just when you thought AIDS was the scariest STD.....
Shouldn't this asshole have gotten tested as soon as he returned to the U.S.??? WTF...he looks like a typical Ivy League-educated dumbass..."I'm gonna go save the world, and when I get back, I'm gonna run around and go bowling... Ebola? Nah...that can't touch me!"
Christie Todd Whitman was here and still lives!
These fuckers are lying to the public....
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/cd/ebola-palm-card.pdf
"You CANNOT get Ebola through the air or just by being near someone who has ebola."
They say this like it's a fact and they know damn well it is not.
Hang 'em high.
Was it Ebola-rama night at the alleys and did he take the "E"-bola train back home?
So much for screening passengers on the way back.
Having a fiberous face mask isn't a hazmat suit. Shouldn't it be a full face mask helmet molded into the suit?
The ones the cops are using are even less protective since they are mean't for biohazard.