Truth is stranger than fiction.
The day before she was flown to Atlanta on a special medical transport jet, with Ebola symptoms, nurse Amber Vinson was flying halfway across the country on a Frontier Airlines commercial jet flight #1143 , along with 132 other people. Flight #1143 went from Cleveland to Ft. Worth/Dallas. That potentially infected jet, then went on to Ft. Lauderdale, Cleveland, Atlanta and then finally back to Cleveland, before it was disinfected.
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said Amber never should have stepped foot on the flight, but another federal official told CNN that no one at the agency stopped her. It came out that Amber did contact the CDC before flying and she was told by the CDC to fly. Amber’s fever wasn’t high enough to have Ebola! Amber’s fever was only 99.5 degrees and the CDC body temperature threshold for Ebola was 104.4 degrees!
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This is insane! What happened to common sense?
1. Amber Vinson was told by the CDC that she could travel with a 99.5 degree fever.
2. A fever can be the first indication of Ebola.
3. As a fever develops, it doesn’t go from 98.6 degrees to 104.4 degrees in an instant, it takes time. A fever is the body’s immune system’s way of trying to fight a virus like Ebola.
4. Amber Vinson had drawn blood from and cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from Ebola in Dallas.
5. Another nurse caring for Duncan, Nina Pham, was already diagnosed for and is being treated for Ebola.
6. The prudent thing to do was to isolate Amber until it could be determined if she had Ebola. They had no idea with a single reading, if her fever had already spiked, or was still rising!
7. Those 132 passengers on Frontier flight #1143, as well as the other passengers on the 4 additional flights that this plane took, prior to it being disinfected, are all in danger of contracting Ebola.
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Over 150 people are entering the US from West Africa daily and all they are doing is checking their temperature. That isn’t enough. These people should be quarantined for a minimum of 21 days before entering the US.
If we don’t wake up, we may be in deep trouble! If we don’t start using common sense precautions, this Ebola crises could cripple our economy with fear within a few months.