Posted October 17, 2014 4:59 PM ET; Last updated October 27, 2014 8:46 PM ET
Josephus Weeks, nephew of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 in Dallas, speaks with a reporter in a hotel room on Oct. 10.
Photo: AP
[From article]
Sidia Rose told “60 Minutes” that Duncan said during his second trip to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas that he had not been in contact with anyone who had been sick.
“I explained to him, ‘We are under the impression that you may have been exposed to Ebola.’ And I said, ‘Where are you from?’ And he told me Liberia,” she said.
“And I asked ‘Have you been in contact with anyone who's been sick?’ ”
“No. He said no,” Rose said.
Rose said Duncan then told her that his family had suffered a loss in Liberia. Duncan added that his daughter, who had died in childbirth, did not have Ebola, however.
Rose said Duncan later denied that story, about his travels and the death of his pregnant daughter, to Texas state health officials.
Nurses in the emergency room and intensive care unit also described efforts to protect themselves from Ebola as well as Duncan’s final days.
Rose said her neck was exposed during her initial questioning of Duncan in the emergency room, adding that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocols were deficient.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/221905-er-nurse-duncan-lied-about-exposure-to-ebola
ER nurse: Duncan lied about exposure to Ebola
By Kyle Balluck
10/26/14 07:00 PM EDT
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[From article]
And I can tell you with 100 percent certainty: Thomas Eric would have never knowingly exposed anyone to this illness.
Thomas Eric Duncan was a victim of a broken system. The biggest unanswered question about my uncle’s death is why the hospital would send home a patient with a 103-degree fever and stomach pains who had recently been in Liberia — and he told them he had just returned from Liberia explicitly due to the Ebola threat.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/ebola-victims-nephew-speaks-out-and-criticizes-hospital-system/
Ebola victim’s nephew speaks: The system killed him
By Josephus Weeks
New York Post
October 16, 2014 | 3:27am
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[From article]
And I can tell you with 100 percent certainty: Thomas Eric would have never knowingly exposed anyone to this illness.
Thomas Eric Duncan was a victim of a broken system. The biggest unanswered question about my uncle’s death is why the hospital would send home a patient with a 103-degree fever and stomach pains who had recently been in Liberia — and he told them he had just returned from Liberia explicitly due to the Ebola threat.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/ebola-victims-nephew-speaks-out-and-criticizes-hospital-system/
Ebola victim’s nephew speaks: The system killed him
By Josephus Weeks
New York Post
October 16, 2014 | 3:27am
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