In the fight of her life right now against that virus. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im he yann page. Were learning much more about that young nurse tonight. Nina familiar was one of 70 establish members at Presbyterian Health hospital who treated Thomas Duncan. He was the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the u. S. He died last week. To night familiar got a tran fusion of blood plaza from a doctor who survived ebola. Hazmat crews dragged waste from her dallas apartment and removed all of her belongings much the question tonight how did familiar who was in full protective gear contract ebola . Its unclear if there was a protocol breach and now members of the Health Care Community are concerned and nervous. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell takes look at local preparations. Reporter if a patient with ebola would ever arrive to a philadelphia hospital, its emergency room nursing like patti aiken who would be on the front lines of the deadly disease. Ive never seen ebola and hope i never do
Familiar who was in full protective gear contract ebola . Its unclear if there was a protocol breach and now members of the Health Care Community are concerned and nervous. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell takes look at local preparations. Reporter if a patient with ebola would ever arrive to a philadelphia hospital, its emergency room nursing like patti aiken who would be on the front lines of the deadly disease. Ive never seen ebola and hope i never do. Reporter aiken has seen a lot in her 15 years working in the emergency room. But not ebola. As the head of the pennsylvania nurses association, shes hoping to keep that it way. This is the issue at this point that everybody is really talking about and worried about and wondering if they have the right equipment and how do you put on hazmat suit and am i going to have a hazmat suit . Reporter in a check of five philadelphia area hospita hospitals. Most tell us they are following cdc recommendations to protect employees and patients, but this gro
Yorkers to be alarmed. The paurpt is a doctor who recently returned from guinea where he treated ebola patients. Craig spencer, admitted to bellevue and placed in isolation. Dr robert glater is an emergency physician. Is there no reason to be alarmed. You heard bill de blasio. Spencer was back in new york, felt sluggish and reported a fever. At this point theres no need for panic. His symptoms began late this morning. What we do know is patients are only when they are symptom attic is when they are infectious and transmit the disease, the virus. You are government as the governor said at the press conference, that it may have been a good thing that he was a doctor, he took precautions. Exactly. This is someone who know, who can identify with the symptoms, he worked in africa and knows what the symptoms are. It was responsible for him to make the calls and the orchestrated response is to be commended. We were prepared for this compared to dallas. He started not feeling great on tuesday.
Spencer, admitted to bellevue and placed in isolation. Dr robert glater is an emergency physician. Is there no reason to be alarmed. You heard bill de blasio. Spencer was back in new york, fever. At this point theres no need for panic. His symptoms began late this morning. What we do know is patients are only when they are symptom attic is when they are infectious and transmit the disease, the virus. You are government as the governor said at the press conference, that it may have been a good thing that he was a doctor, he took precautions. Exactly. This is someone who know, who can identify with the symptoms, he worked in africa and knows what the symptoms are. It was responsible for him to make the calls and the orchestrated response is to be commended. We were prepared for this compared to dallas. He started not feeling great on tuesday. Wednesday night he went to bowl in brooklyn, he may have taken the subway from manhattan to brooklyn, and a taxi back into the city. Is that a conc
Good morning. Were starting out wet as accuweather projected we would. Theres a bands of rain rolling in off the ocean affecting mostly the Northern State of delaware right now, New Castle County delaware, parts of south jersey. There are thunderstorms over by the coast north of atlantic city. Youre in a lull in cape may and ac. If youre in philadelphia this is on its way into the city during the morning rush hour. Out in the northern western suburbs you probably wont see as much as this as it may stop short but a lot of the area looking wet this morning and voss you want to be careful that of thunder and lightning down by the shore. Theres a counterclockwise flow around an area of low pressure thats on its way off the coast and eventually up the coast and this is bringing that band rain in. As were he go through the day it will stay cloudy and at times damp as more rain may at times try to pop in from the ocean and around that low. 57 degrees in philadelphia, getting ready for rain. R