Dallas, Texas –Dallas nurse Amber Vinson who was confirmed positive of Ebola defends herself against criticisms that she’s been reckless deciding to fly on an airplane to the U.S. from West Africa.
In an interview with Matt Lauer of NBC, Dallas nurse Vinson said that she would never to outside her boundaries, guidelines or something directly from the CDC that tells her she can’t fly.
Vinson said that she felt awful because of the criticisms that she received for getting on the plane to come back to Dallas with what turned out as early Ebola symptoms. She said that she’s neither reckless nor thoughtless and cited that she’s an ICU nurse. In her profession, she has embraced guidelines and procedures because in a daily work in an urgent care clinic or a hospital, it is always a matter of life and death.
According to Vinson, she’s been interacting with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services after she heard about the news that her fellow nurse Nina Pham of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tested positive for Ebola. She was then provided with a number of symptoms to watch out for and some contact persons that she can call in case any symptom shows within the next 21 days while she’s in an urgent care near me.
Prior to leaving on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas, Dallas nurse Amber Vinson said she called a few officials. She asked the members of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services if there’s anything that they can do to send for her and if she needed to leave earlier. She went ahead and asked those questions because she was bothered and frightened at the same time of what could possibly happen to her.
The nurse was then cleared and permitted to fly after her temperature was checked and showed below 100.4 degrees. Later on, a number of people on the same flight with her were also placed on the watch list for Ebola with some of them volunteered to drop by urgent care clinics on their own.
The two nurses Pham and Vinson were admitted at out-of-state urgent care hospitals but they were confirmed free from the fatal disease and have been allowed to return to Dallas.
Vinson is planning to move to a new place soon according to a report of NBC5 on Wednesday.
The Dallas nurse, her fiancé and mother have all been removed from the Ebola watch list.
