By Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News
“So honored to be a part of @TIME Magazine’s POY!”
Person of the year covers of TIME Magazine (Dallas News)
So tweets Nina Pham, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas nurse among the “Ebola Fighters” named this morning as Time‘s Person of the Year. Her Presby colleague Amber Vinson is also included, along with Dr. Kent Brantly and Kaci Hickox. Pham and Vinson, were infected with Ebola after coming in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola at Presbyterian in October after he was initially treated with antibiotics and released from the hospital.
“I replay it over and over again in my head how I could have gotten infected,” Pham says in the magazine. “If I had to guess when it happened, it probably would have been in the first couple of days, when Mr. Duncan wasn’t in control of his bodily fluids, and he didn’t have catheters and tubes in place. We had to go in there and do blood sticks and deal with intimate procedures that were very high-risk.”
Vinson also recalls her contact with Duncan — and those terrifying hours following her Ebola diagnosis. She also talks about the firestorm that erupted when news broke that she’d been on a plane to and from Cleveland following her exposure to Duncan.
Read the full story HERE.
