re: Ebola Nurse in Maine Takes a Bike Ride - Cops Follow

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Actual risk tells us a nurse was not capable of making that decision. Especially a nurse as emotionally unstable under the circumstances as to run her temperature up to 101° in a fit of rage.

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She didn't run her temperature up, she became angry/distressed which caused her face to flush. As I'm sure you know, increased increased blood flow to the face and forehead can increase locally the temperature of the skin of the face and forehead. So of course a hand-held thermometer will pick up an increase when pointed at the forehead - however, this is in no way indicative of true fever, which is why she should have been checked with an oral thermometer immediately.

Subsequently, when she was checked at the hospital by oral thermometer, she had no fever. However, the airport (and state) was only interested in quarantining her, regardless of presence of disease.


And I wasn't on the phone call with Vinson - there are perfectly acceptable circumstances where she could have been told it was low/no risk, then after more facts came out it was deemed too much a risk. I know you have some personal vendetta against Frieden, but he personally had nothing to do with that phone call, either.