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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I can't really fault this guy with a blanket statement. He was following protocol, from what I can tell. What I *do* fault him with is he apparently WAS feeling run down/fatigue in the days before he spiked his fever. In my opinion, once he felt run down, he should've self-quarantined at that point - to wait out to see whether or not add'l symptoms would emerge.
Apparently 13% of ebola patients do *not* present with fever - which is scary, bc this means that people truly must be tuned in to their body's other less-obvious symptoms with ebola....and being "run down" would be one of those symptoms. This is where I think the doctor should've applied his knowledge of the larger symptom picture. |
You are absolutely right. Did he really have to come back fatigued, then plunge right into riding the subway, going to an amusement park, bowling alley, restaurants, etc.? Where is his common sense? Taking his temp twice a day was nice.... but fatigue was the earlier symptom that was ignored. There needs to be a pre-quarantine requirement for people at high risk who have been in contact with ebola, like health care workers who have been treating it.
NYC is doing a great job of handling this, however I do feel the doctor himself was negligent in exposing people needlessly. Heck, even jet lag alone would have kept me from doing all those things in 2 days. It's to bad NYC has the expense of chasing this all down.