An NBC News crew has found itself in a bit of trouble this weekend. The network's chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, and her crew that was stationed in Liberia covering Ebola had agreed to quarantine themselves after a cameraman working beside them tested positive for the disease. They returned to New Jersey about a week ago and were supposed to spend 21-days under a voluntary quarantine but apparently at least one crew member violated the agreement that was made with the CDC. On Friday the entire crew was smacked with a mandatory quarantine.
According to an official statement that was read New Jersey health officials confirmed the situation saying,
"Unfortunately, the NBC crew violated this agreement and so the Department of Health today issued a mandatory quarantine order to ensure that the crew will remain confined until Oct. 22."
On Oct. 1 Ashoka Mukpo was diagnosed with Ebola after spending only a day working for Snyderman's crew. The Rhode Island native was flown back to the states and is currently battling the illness in a Nebraska hospital. NBC New President Deborah Turness originally tried to reassure the public that they believed the threat to the rest of the NBC crew was minimal at best. She originally announced a press release saying:
"While they are deemed to be at low risk, we have agreed with state and local health authorities that our team will not come to work, and they will stay at home taking their temperatures twice daily and staying in touch with the local health authorities."
Obviously, not all of the crew followed the protocol and at least one of them may have potentially put others unknowingly at risk. The CDC is preaching about containment of Ebola and wants the general public to believe that it can be gotten under control. Do you think that is the case or is the organization simply minimizing the risks in order to avoid creating an even bigger environment of fear? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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