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Old 10-16-2014, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Rochester, NY
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Initial Tests Indicate Yale Student Does Not Have Ebola | NBC Connecticut

Luckily, the student was tested negative in New Haven.
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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Woah. Totally irresponsible and misleading headline. Not cool.

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Old 10-16-2014, 07:05 PM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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I think we're a little Ebola crazy atm. Good grief.
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Old 10-16-2014, 07:15 PM
 
Location: CT
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While I agree the media is out of control with hysteria (we see this in EVERY facet of news coverage), the person DID come back from a West African country known to be a petri dish for viral outbreaks with "flu-like symptoms". An over reaction by the media? yes. An over reaction by the health system? no. IMO that student shouldn't even have made it back to Yale W/O being checked out.

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Old 10-16-2014, 07:38 PM
 
Location: Northern Fairfield Co.
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I think the university made the decision upon the students return from Liberia that mandatory quarantine was not necessary; however the students seemed to be self sequestering themselves anyway. Scariest part is this particular student had direct contact with the NBC cameraman who is currently being treated for Ebola at a hospital in Nebraska (I think it's Nebraska?) According to this Yale daily news article, the student and the cameraman had direct contact in Liberia one day before the cameraman fell ill. I think everyone breathed a sigh of relief after today's test results came in. Hopefully he remains healthy in the coming days/weeks. Ebola test negative, hospital says | Yale Daily News

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Old 10-17-2014, 07:45 AM
 
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I think we're a little Ebola crazy atm. Good grief.
I don't think so....its very deadly and spreads easily. This is a lot worse than H1N1 or SARS...

I think the media putting out breaking news yesterday before tests came back was a little nuts though
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Old 10-17-2014, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Wilton, CT
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Initial Tests Indicate Yale Student Does Not Have Ebola | NBC Connecticut

Luckily, the student was tested negative in New Haven.
I followed that one and was glad to see that result on the news yesterday. My daughter lives in New Haven. I first heard about it at the gym when my trainer said it was a student at Yale. Yikes! My daughter's partner works at Yale, so needless to say, there was some concern on my part. Of course I know the media can jump the gun on these things, causing unnecessary concern, but the concern was there.
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Old 10-17-2014, 09:40 AM
 
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The media hype on this is absurd. Besides the two health care workers who were treating Mr. Duncan (who were initially not given the proper protective gear), no one else has come down with it, including the other healthcare workers who treated him as well as his family and friends in Dallas. That said, I'm concerned that the government has so far botched their response to Ebola. Frieden, the head of the CDC, should be fired.
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Old 10-17-2014, 10:01 AM
 
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My sister is a P.A. at Yale and she got the email the night before it was announced stating a potential Ebola case was coming in. She text me early yesterday about it and then I saw it on the news. I will say that it made my wife and I upset when I heard it. So close to home especially with my sister working there. The media hype is insane though.......I am concerned about Ebola but not going to live scared either.
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Old 10-17-2014, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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The media hype on this is absurd. Besides the two health care workers who were treating Mr. Duncan (who were initially not given the proper protective gear), no one else has come down with it, including the other healthcare workers who treated him as well as his family and friends in Dallas. That said, I'm concerned that the government has so far botched their response to Ebola. Frieden, the head of the CDC, should be fired.
This exactly. The NBC camera man who fell ill was IN Liberia (and apparently he's recovering wonderfully.) The only people who have fallen ill, on our soil, otherwise, were health care workers. Those are the people who are at the greatest risk. FYI, I work for a hospital in NYC and this is from our internal postings:

According to public health authorities, the outbreak is expected to continue for six months or more. There have been NO reported cases of Ebola in New York City. Please note that Ebola is spread ONLY from person to person via direct contact with body fluids from symptomatic patients (i.e.: blood, urine, sweat, stool, vomitus, semen and breast milk, etc.). The incubation period is 2 to 21 days. Patients are NOT infectious during incubation, only after symptom onset.

Health Care workers have the greatest risk, at the moment. NOT the general public.
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