Tag: Amber Vinson

The Texas nurse got the deadly disease when she treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died. Amber Vinson was cleared of the disease last week and will make a public statement today.

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.”

This is good news for America, bad news for Republicans. They thought they would be able to use Ebola as a boogeyman, scaring Americans into voting for them this November.  But with stories like this, Republicans will just have to go back to their other scare tactics, like, OMG, there us a black man in the White House!

But I digress.

Doctors no longer detect Ebola in a Texas nurse who flew to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with the virus, her family said Wednesday.

Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn’t detect Ebola in Amber Vinson as of Tuesday evening, her family said in a statement released through a media consultant. Doctors usually do two tests a day apart before saying they can’t detect the virus. It’s unclear how many tests Vinson has had.

Vinson’s mother, Debra Berry, spoke to her Wednesday, and Vinson has been approved for transfer from isolation, the statement said.

“We all know that further treatment will be necessary as Amber continues to regain strength, but these latest developments have truly answered prayers and bring our family one step closer to reuniting with her at home,” Berry said.

Vinson, 29, remains in treatment at Emory, near Atlanta. Emory wouldn’t release any information about the patient, hospital spokeswoman Holly Korschun said.