48 Set to Be Cleared in Dallas After Ebola Monitoring
By Monday morning, 48 of the people in Dallas who are being monitored for Ebola symptoms will be cleared to resume their lives, after a tense three weeks for them and for much of the nation.
Fourteen of the 48 were cleared Saturday and 34 more were to be released from control orders at midnight, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Sunday evening at a news conference in Dallas. That will leave more than 100 in Dallas and Ohio still being monitored.
Jenkins said the first 14 included those who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died of Ebola, when he arrived in the emergency department at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Sept. 28. The other 34 had contact with him later that day after he was admitted. Duncan died of Ebola Oct. 8.