Amber Vinson, one of two Texas
nurses to contract Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, will be
released Tuesday from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, officials
said.
Vinson, 29, was admitted to the
hospital’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and was declared
free of the deadly virus last week.
She is expected to make her first public statement during a national news conference at 1 p.m. E.T., according to the hospital.
Vinson was diagnosed with the
virus on Oct. 14. A day later, the Dallas resident was flown by air
ambulance to Atlanta for treatment at Emory, which has a specialized
unit trained in treating Ebola.
“Amber is steadily regaining her
strength and her spirits are high,” her family said in a statement last
week. “We appreciate everyone for keeping Amber in your thoughts and
prayers.”
Vinson's diagnosis prompted
Ebola worries from Dallas to Cleveland, when it was revealed that she
had flown commercially in the days before being hospitalized. Her family
fended off critics by pointing that health officials had approved her
travel plans.
Vinson and her colleague, Nina
Pham, were among 50 to 70 health care workers involved in the treatment
of Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian in
Dallas from Sept. 28 to Oct. 8.
Source: yahoo News
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