Active Monitoring Period for Health Care Workers Who Cared for New York City’s First Ebola Patient Ends Today
All 114 health care workers who cared for Dr. Craig Spencer are healthy and asymptomatic
The Health Department and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) announced today that the active monitoring period for the last of the 114 health care workers who cared for New York City’s first Ebola patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, will end today. This includes staff from Bellevue Hospital Center, FDNY EMS and the Health Department’s Public Health Laboratory. Dr. Spencer arrived at HHC’s Bellevue Hospital Center on October 23, 2014 and was treated by a trained team of specialists and intensive care nurses in the Infectious Disease Unit. He was released from the hospital on November 11, 2014.