Patient at Duke Hospital being monitored for possible Ebola - tested NEGATIVE

[deurbano]

21. Me, too! And when all the "contacts" clear the monitoring period...

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I found one TV news report from a Florida TV station regarding that for Duncan's contacts once he entered the hospital. And I think today is the final day of incubation for Vinson's pre-hospitalization contacts, and I could find two reports (from Cleveland). There may be more, but the point is all the hype and panic about all the people "exposed," and hardly anything once that panic proves to be unwarranted.

Update Edit:
I found a few more end of monitoring period updates, but almost all (if not all) seem to be local, like this one for a kid on the airplane Vinson flew back to Dallas and two kids who live with a healthcare worker who treated an "Ebola patient":

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/11/03/kids-go-back-to-class-after-ebola-quarantine/

We get the panic mongering national news coverage for the initial reporting... and then it fades to this brief, local update. Pathetic.


Seems this would be newsworthy:

"There are only four more days until all of Dallas County can finally be declared Ebola-free. North Texas has seen three confirmed cases of the virus, but there were more than 170 people either in direct contact with one of those patients or in possible contact with them. Friday is the day when the last few people are expected to be cleared."