Nurse Who Had Ebola Being Released from Hospital
Nurse who had Ebola being released from hospital – Amber Vinson, a nurse who fueled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient in Dallas, is now virus-free, and was celebrated Tuesday by her caregivers as courageous and passionate before getting out of the hospital.
While world leaders appeal for more doctors and nurses on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic, health care workers in the United States are finding themselves on the defensive.
Lawyers now represent both Vinson, who contracted the virus while caring for a Liberian visitor to Texas, and Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was held for days against her will in a medical tent in New Jersey after volunteering in West Africa. Their attorneys are challenging the mandatory quarantines that some states have imposed on anyone who came into contact with Ebola victims.
Vinson’s trip home to join her bridesmaids for wedding preparations was one of several moves by doctors and nurses that may have exposed others in the United States. In Ohio alone, 163 people were still being monitored Tuesday because of contact or potential contact with Vinson in a bridal shop and on the airplanes she traveled in.
NJ Gov. Chris Christie said voluntary stay-at-home measures were obviously insufficient, since even doctors and nurses had moved around in public before getting sick. He was among the first to announce mandatory 21-day quarantines for anyone who had contact with possibly infected people.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Tuesday that at least 5,000 more health workers are needed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to fight the epidemic, which has killed more than 5,000.
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