New York City Health Chief Says Ebola System "Worked"

by JASmius



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New York City's health system worked when presented with the city's first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"Since the end of July, we've been working very hard to ensure that we had all the systems in place. And, yesterday all of those systems were tested, and all of them worked," Bassett said Friday.

Here's "Doctor" Bassett's idea of "worked":

Dr. Craig Spencer, a physician who had treated Ebola patients in Guinea, was admitted to New York's Bellevue Hospital on Thursday with symptoms of the disease. Bassett said Spencer was "completely well" when he returned to the United States from West Africa a week ago.

Since his return, Spencer rode the subway, took a taxi, and went to a bowling alley, raising concerns that he might have spread the disease to others.

As opposed to, say, a mandatory three-week quarantine before leaving West Africa for any U.S. personnel, civilian or military, who go over there before returning Stateside.

Yeah, New York's ebola system "worked" alright.  And now multiple New Yorkers will contract ebola.

Figures that "Doctor" Tom Frieden is one of "Doctor" Bassett's predecessors, doesn't it?