Pic via Craig Spencer’s Facebook
He has been taken to Bellevue hospital to undergo tests. From CBS:
Ebola test results are expected within 12 hours, officials said.
“As a further precaution, beginning today, the Health Department’s team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient’s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk,” officials said. “The Health Department staff has established protocols to identify, notify, and, if necessary, quarantine any contacts of Ebola cases.”
Yeah yeah Williamsburg had Ebola before it was cool. Now was he at Brooklyn Bowl or The Gutter? No matter what he has, we hope Spencer has a speedy recovery! He recently posted on his Facebook about his desire to fight Ebola:
Off to Guinea with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Please support organizations that are sending support or personnel to West Africa, and help combat one of the worst public health and humanitarian disasters in recent history.
UPDATE: The Gutter has cancelled all shows and bowling leagues for tonight. No word yet on which bowling alley the patient attended.
UPDATE 2: The patient has tested positive for Ebola. From the NY Times:
A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.
The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test.
Updates as the story develops.
– On twitter: @joshmorrissey
dumbass
Please clean the bowling balls and any other objects else he might have touched with household bleach. It is reportedly the best way to kill the virus, which can otherwise stay viable on surfaces for days or weeks, especially dark places such as inside the holes in a bowling ball.
So do we get a discount on bowling this weekend?
#ebowlarama
NYT says he took the subway there and a cab back
Great.. One transplant us natives could of done without .
Looks like Mr. Hipster Doctor went out of his way to contaminate the city.
3 subways
he went all over the place, hope he wasn’t gay or used prostitutes.
Hope he’s not stupid, like yarply. What does whether he’s gay or not have to do with anything?
Wait, you’re equating a gay man to a person who uses prostitutes? You know this is 2014, right? I wish we could sell you a time machine so we could send you back to the hateful and fearful place you came from.
Maybe YOU are the “the hateful and fearful” one for not embracing a diverse opinion.
I see the hysteria train has stopped at the Free Williamsburg depot. What are you idiots carrying on about? Julie Jugs, STFU. The ebola virus is not transmittable via surfaces for “days or weeks”, rather, it can last on a surface for hours. You’re probably a troll. And Patrick K, what are you, another troll? Why the fuck would you call him “Mr. Hipster Doctor?” Dr. Craig Spencer’s LinkedIn page (taken down sometime since I last looked at it) lists him as “Fellow of International Emergency Medicine at Columbia University – New York Presbyterian Hospital.” So, you figure you know more about this than he does. NO DOUBT! I applaud Yarply for “hoping that he isn’t gay or used prostitutes” because that is a very important point. No doubt, he is gay and used hundreds of gay prostitutes since he returned to NYC on Oct 17. So, everybody panic! Good show, idiots! If you happen to run into a skinhead, take him bowling. Peace out.
Dummy, shut yer yap
So, you figure you know more about this than he does.
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You seem surprised that there are folks who know more about deadly diseases that actual doctors and nurses….why is that?
If Doc Hipster was actually “in the know”, he’d know enough not to be wearing goggles right up on top of his under-equipped facemask, preventing a tight seal against his face.
Oh, that’s right, all docs (even Doc Hipster) knows how to don PPE. Yup.
tl;dr Hipster gonna’ hipster.
#eboling
I wonder if this guy is a flaming liberal like the idiot nurse who is suing because she was asked to be quarantined. The Liberals are doing everything possible to avoid any quarantining because it calls loudly to close the Mexican border (place where all these infected nuts with a dollar to get there) will stream across into the US to get free healthcare (voters in the eyes of Liberal retarded Democrats).
Liberals are above this, you know. Ebola is a disease of the primitive, dirty Negroids, though they won’t say that outright. It’s not a whitey disease and if it is, everyone he may infect will be cured…because cures for viruses are just so easy to concoct.
A quick look shows that Doc Hipster grew up in Detroit. Actually, the uppity area of Grosse Pointe Woods. He shows no ratings at healthgrades.com, so he must be new to this game. Maybe this was his semi-vacation before he had to get into the real world.