NBC Medical Correspondent Apologizes for Violating Ebola Quarantine

Nancy Snyderman. Photo Credit: NBC News

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NBC News Chief Medical Correspondent and Princeton resident Dr. Nancy Snyderman apologized for scaring the community and the country, and adding to the confusion surrounding the Ebola virus during an appearance on The Today Show on Wednesday.

Snyderman, 62, also told host Matt Lauer she and her team would return to West Africa to report on Ebola developments.

Snyderman and her crew were covering the crisis as it unfolded in Liberia. She said while they were there, they saw sick people being taken to the hospital in wheelbarrows, and women giving birth in the streets, according to the report.

Freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, 33, was infected with the disease while there.

On Wednesday, Snyderman said they were keeping track of their own vitals multiple times a day, but were insensitive to the scare the epidemic was causing in the United States.

The group agreed to voluntary isolation upon returning to America, but state health officials placed them under a mandatory quarantine after residents reported seeing Snyderman and her crew getting takeout.

They were quarantined until late October, at which time NBC announced Snyderman and her crew would take time off to be with their families and restore normalcy to their lives.

Wednesday’s appearance was Snyderman’s first since breaking the quarantine.