Showing posts with label Dr. Craig Spencer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Craig Spencer. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2014

What worked?

November 13, 2014 AP , Bil de Blasio 0 Comments
Dr. Craig Spencer Is 'Ebola free'

AP, Nov. 11, 2014, My Fox NY
An emergency room doctor in New York City who had Ebola was released from the hospital on Tuesday.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and several other health officials outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to address the media.

Spencer tested positive for the virus Oct. 23, just days after returning from treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders.

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

And we're supposed to have confidence?

October 30, 2014 Bruce Golding , Dr. Craig Spencer 0 Comments
Ebola Doctor ‘Lied’ About NYC Travels

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By Jamie Schram and Bruce Golding, Oct. 29, 2014, Nypost.com

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.

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Paging, Moe!

October 24, 2014 Chris Spargo , Dailymail.co.uk 0 Comments
Bumbling Cops Leave Ebola Doctor's Apartment--Dump Protective Gloves In A Sidewalk Trash Can

By Chris Spargo, Oct. 23, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

As a demonstration of how well-drilled New York City officials are in how to deal with Ebola, it left a lot to be desired.

Two New York City police officers who attended the Harlem apartment building of Dr Craig Spencer - the first confirmed Ebola case in the city - were observed afterward dumping their protective gear and caution tape in a garbage bin on the street.

While it was not immediately clear if the two officers had been inside Dr Spencer's apartment, the episode had many people asking if the equipment should not have been disposed of in a biohazard bag - even if only as a precaution.

Jitters spread through New York on Thursday after it was revealed Dr Spencer spent seven days in the city after returning from Africa with the Ebola virus in his bloodstream.

On Tuesday, Dr Spencer described suffering from fatigue and exhaustion. He took the subway from his home in Harlem to popular tourist spot the High Line, a park created on a disused railway line in Chelsea.

He stopped at Blue Bottle Coffee stand and then had lunch at The Meatball Shop in Greenwich Village.

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First of many in NY?

October 24, 2014 Corky Seimaszko , Dr. Craig Spencer 0 Comments
NY Doctor Who Treated Ebola Patients in West Africa Tests Positive-- Rushed To Bellevue Hospital

By Rocco Parascandola, Tina Moore, Corky Seimaszko, Oct. 23, 2014, Nydailynews.com

A Harlem doctor who treated Ebola patients in West Africa before returning to New York last week tested positive Thursday for the deadly disease — the first such diagnosis in the city.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, was hauled to Bellevue Hospital in a protective suit with symptoms of the illness. Officials said his temperature was normal when he landed at Kennedy Airport a week ago, on Oct. 17. But it spiked to 103 degrees by early Thursday, and he had diarrhea.

Three others — Spencer's fiancée and two friends — have also been quarantined but have shown no symptoms, according to Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of the city’s Health Department.

FDNY hazardous-materials specialists sealed off Spencer’s apartment on W. 147th St. in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights and took the doctor out on a stretcher.

Spencer’s test results were publicly released about 8:30 p.m.

But at 6:20 p.m., the city Health Department sent out an urgent request to all New York area hospitals to see if any had “the following drug: Brincidofovir made by Chimerix.”

Read the full story:  www.nydailynews.com

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