Dependence the functional racism in their state. The director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention says we should brace ourselves for more cases of the ebola virus in the United States. Dozens being monitored in dallas where Officials Say a breach of protocol is responsible for a Health Care Worker catching the ebola virus from Thomas Eric Duncan. Particularly among the Health Care Workers who cared for the index patient when he was so ill. Thats when this Health Care Worker became infected, were concerned and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the Health Care Workers who also provided care to the index patient. And robert ray is outside the cdc headquarters in atlanta. Robert good to see you. Yesterday many thought the cdc was actually blaming the dallas hospital for the infection of that hearing woul health care wt today there was some backtracking. Tell us about that. Yes, tony, indeed. Dr. Thomas freeden, yesterday when he mentioned
Goodness for them, the coronavirus reality still at this moment and for quite a period of time continues to be its unrelenting spread across the country. Driving hospitalizations to record highs. More than 98,000 americans are currently hospitalized. Thats approximately double the number from just one month ago. That shows that the trend is clearly in the wrong direction. And then theres also this as you see on your screen, almost 2,600 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily total since the pandemic began. Were going to get to all of this. Lets start with the major vaccine news out of the uk first. Cnns max foster is standing by in london with the latest on this. Max, tell us exactly what the government there decided, what youre hearing there and why. Well, the latest weve heard is the vaccine is being packed up at a factory in belgium ready to come here to the uk. Thats huge excitement. It means the rollout has actually begun. Uk the first country in the world to hav
Additional information. But our operations has really deescalated significantly since this morning. Thank you so much. That is the deputy chief for Fairfax County fire department. Have been here all day, i guess, working on this situation as well. Thats correct. I guess its sort of a now. Ng game right the situation is that she is in isolation. We understand that they are observing her for the criteria involved in a situation for ebola. And the determination will be made by cdc and Fairfax County whether shetment will actually be tested for ebola. Reporting live from Fairfax County, virginia, sam ford, abc 7 news. Okay. Thank you, sam. Now, thats the woman. How about the bus she was on . It traveled back into the district. In southeasts live washington where police later stopped that bus, and then everybody on board. Tom, what did you learn . Well, it was right near the thene barracks here in southeast. Where that happened, ill show you. Littlea avenue, just a west of 7th street, was s
Hospital and city Officials Say they are doing everything they can to monitor staff at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. They have a contingency plan in place. This is a stark contrast to d. C. Director tom friedens stunning revelation that his agency did not respond fast enough. I have thought often about it. I wish we would have put a team like this on the ground the day the first patient was diagnosed. It might have prevented the infection. Well do it from today on ward with any case anywhere in the u. S. On the today show this Morning Health and Human Services director was pressed on the cdcs response. The cdc sent a full team in place and a team of apodemologists as well as Infection Control people. The oversight of the implementation of the protocols could have been better. Do you have confidence in the cdc and dr. Frieden . I do have confidence. Mark potter joining me from dallas with more. The hospital hasnt confirmed it was a nurse. They wont say what role she played in mr.
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