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Vinson, one of two Texas nurses who tested positive for Ebola after
treating an infected patient, is free of the virus and will be
discharged Tuesday from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, according to the hospital.
Vinson, 29, and Nina Pham, 26, were the two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who contracted the virus while caring for Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national who died of the disease Oct. 8.
Pham was released Oct. 24 from a National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md.
Vinson was admitted to the Atlanta-based Emory Hospital's Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and is now virus-free, the hospital said.
She is expected to make her first public statement at a news conference at 1 p.m. ET, but will not take questions.
Bruce Ribner, medical director of Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit, will also appear at the news conference to discuss the case, the hospital said.
Vinson came under criticism for flying to Cleveland shortly after Duncan died despite her extensive exposure to him.
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, initially said Vinson had violated CDC guidelines against anyone using public transport while undergoing self-monitoring for exposure to Ebola.
But a CDC spokesman said later that Vinson had spoken with the agency and was cleared to fly from Cleveland to Dallas by the CDC official responsible for monitoring her health.
Vinson's family defended her in a statement at the time.
"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physician and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful," the statement reads.
Vinson, 29, and Nina Pham, 26, were the two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who contracted the virus while caring for Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national who died of the disease Oct. 8.
Pham was released Oct. 24 from a National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md.
Vinson was admitted to the Atlanta-based Emory Hospital's Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and is now virus-free, the hospital said.
She is expected to make her first public statement at a news conference at 1 p.m. ET, but will not take questions.
Bruce Ribner, medical director of Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit, will also appear at the news conference to discuss the case, the hospital said.
Vinson came under criticism for flying to Cleveland shortly after Duncan died despite her extensive exposure to him.
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, initially said Vinson had violated CDC guidelines against anyone using public transport while undergoing self-monitoring for exposure to Ebola.
But a CDC spokesman said later that Vinson had spoken with the agency and was cleared to fly from Cleveland to Dallas by the CDC official responsible for monitoring her health.
Vinson's family defended her in a statement at the time.
"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physician and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful," the statement reads.
From USATODAY.COM
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