Princeton's Dr. Nancy Snyderman to Take a Month Off as NBC Chief Medical Correspondent

Nancy Snyderman. Photo Credit: NBC News

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NBC News Chief Medical Correspondent and Princeton resident Dr. Nancy Snyderman, 62, will return to work next month after her mandatory quarantine ended on Wednesday, Planet Princeton reports.

NBC News issued a memo that said Snyderman and her crew will be taking time off to be with family and friends and “restore normalcy to their lives,” according to the report.

Snyderman and her crew have not been suspended.

Earlier this week, freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, 33, was cleared of the Ebola virus he contracted while covering an outbreak of the virus in Africa.

Mukpo contracted the disease while on assignment as part of a crew that included NBC Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman, a Princeton resident.

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.

The announcement that Snyderman wouldn’t return to work for a month comes after more than 1,000 people posted to Snyderman’s Facebook page saying they were angry and wouldn’t trust her again. Some suggested she should be fired or lose her medical license, according to The Associated Press.