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[Cal Carpenter]

51. Okay, my timeline was off

I feel like this has being on much longer. But that does not negate my greater point, because these few examples in the US are just icing on the cake in terms of what we know about ebola and how/when it is contagious.

Regardless, every minute that passes, the chance of any of Amber Vinson's contacts being diagnosed with ebola gets smaller.

She was on the plane with a low-grade fever with the permission of the CDC and her employer because it is not infectious at that stage.

Whatever Nancy Snyderman agreed to, the fact was she didn't need to be isolated in quarantine against her will. She never tested positive, and she never infected anyone. The whole debacle about her being seen in a car was media hype fear-mongering and irrelevant to public health.

Bottom line is, there have been no new infections from any of the self-monitoring health workers. Thanks to SCIENCE, and the ability to learn about transmission of ebola through the thousands of actual cases of it in W Africa, we can understand that forcing isolation before any symptoms or diagnosis is NOT NECESSARY.


So a couple questions for you - when the 21 days are up for Dr Spencer, Amber Vinson, and Nina Pham, if no one was infected by any of them, will you accept the facts about self-monitoring being sufficient among HCWs?

And - do defend the practice of isolating/quarantining people in hospitals for 21 days against their will when they are asymptomatic have tested negative for ebola?