Updated: 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 | Posted: 9:46 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014
Nancy Writebol is wheeled into Emory University Hospital.
Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/2nd-ebola-patient-in-us/ngt6s/
By Ariel Hart and Ernie Suggs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ebola patient Nancy Writebol made the long journey from West Africa to Atlanta Tuesday to receive treatment at Emory University Hospital. Another missionary, Kent Brantly, arrived at the hospital Saturday, also suffering from Ebola.
Check back regularly on ajc.com and MyAjc.com for streaming video, photos and other updates on Writebol’s arrival at Dobbins Air Force Base and her transport by ambulance to Emory. The AJC and Channel 2 Action News have reporters on the scene and will keep you up to date throughout the day.
1:27 p.m. Writebol arrived in a white Grady ambulance, with the driver wearing a protective suit. The patient and all occupants who exited were also wearing white Tyvek suits. The ambulance was followed by another white Grady SUV and a caravan of four dekalb Police SUVs. Four DeKalb cruisers peeled off continuing up Clifton Road. It took less than a minute; helicopter coverage down Clifton showed cars slightly backed up on occasion as the ambulance finally took to bypassing traffic with help from the police.
1:22 p.m. Writebol's arrival, for all the buildup, was quiet and anticlimactic. Most of the buzz was focused in the media pit, as they waited for the ambulance convoy. The first clear indication that she was near was the buzzing of two helicopters over the hospital.
12:57 p.m. Nancy Writebol has entered the hospital. Unlike her colleague, Dr. Kent Brantly, who gingerly walked in on his own with help, Writebol was carried on a stretcher from the ambulance into the building.
12:51 p.m. The ambulance convoy carrying Nancy Writebol, a missionary and hygienist believed to have Ebola, has arrived at Emory University Hospital on Clifton Road.\
12:49 p.m. The ambulance has turned onto Clifton Road.
12:43 p.m. Ambulance followed by a few support vehicles has exited I-85 in Dekalb County for surface streets toward Emory University Hospital.
12:30 p.m. The ground ambulance convoy carrying Nancy Writebol is driving toward Emory University Hospital from Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Channel 2 Action News has live helicopter and ground video coverage.
12:38 p.m. The ambulance convoy heads into Brookwood, near the neighborhood of Emory hospital.
12:26 p.m. The ambulance convoy carrying Nancy Writebol is on the move, in process of leaving Dobbins for the road trip to Emory University Hospital. Our news partner, Channel 2 Action news is following the convoy on the highway and in the air with their news chopper.
12:16 p.m. Emory University Hospital says it will not host a press briefing following Writebol’s arrival, as it focuses on her care. Emory has been limited in what it can say following Brantly’s admission to the facility Saturday, because he has chosen to withhold his condition under privacy laws. A briefing, possibly sponsored by a Christian organization, is scheduled for 2 p.m. at a university-affiliated building nearby, staff there said. Brantly and Writebol worked in Liberia as missionary health care workers.
11:27 a.m. The ambulance plane carrying Nancy Writebol has landed at Dobbins.
11:18 a.m. Conditions at Dobbins Air Reserve Base were close to ideal for Writebol’s landing. Visibility was good, with no clouds below 12,000 feet, and light winds out of the west at 6 mph. The temperature at 11 a.m. was 81 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Under those wind conditions, her flight would use Runway 29, which has a west-northwest heading.
10:52 a.m. Outside of Emory hospital, early Tuesday, was a scene of hurry up and wait. Dozens of news trucks from all over the country - particularly Georgia and North Carolina - lined the sidewalk along Clifton Road waiting for an update.
9:45 a.m. Nancy Writebol, the second American Ebola patient headed to Emory University Hospital today, is in U.S. airspace headed to Atlanta, according to a Maine television station. Her plane landed in Bangor to refuel at 8 a.m. and departed 40 minutes later, according to WCSH. The station says the same plane landed in Bangor on Saturday, when it carried Dr. Kent Brantly to Emory. Brantly is the first confirmed Ebola patient ever known to be on U.S. soil. Writebol will be the second. The plane, a specialized air ambulance outfitted with a tent to contain infectious diseases, can only carry one patient at a time, so it had to make two trips.
8:40 a.m. The plane carrying Ebola patient Nancy Writebol leaves Bangor, Maine for Atlanta.
8:00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5 A special ambulance plane carrying Ebola patient Nancy Writebol arrives from Africa on U.S. soil, stopping in Bangor, Maine to refuel, according to Maine television station WCSH. WCSH says the local city council had been alerted, but not the health authorities, because they did not view it as a health risk.
TIMELINE
9:12 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, Eastern Daylight Time A specialized single-bed ambulance plane carrying Ebola patient Nancy Writebol departs Monrovia, Liberia, headed to the U.S. Nancy Writebol, a hygienist believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus, is headed to the U.S. for treatment.
Saturday morning, Aug. 2 Dr. Kent Brantly lands at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Cobb County, and travels by specially outfitted ambulance convoy to Emory University Hospital, where a special containment unit has been constructed to hold patients with deadly contagious diseases. Brantly is the first confirmed Ebola patient ever to be treated in the U.S.
Friday afternoon, Aug. 1 Shortly before a press conference at Emory packed with international media covering patient Kent Brantly’s expected arrival, Emory staff agree to take the second patient, Nancy Writebol, who was working with Brantly at an Ebola clinic in Liberia.
Wednesday morning, July 30 Dr. Bruce Ribner of Emory University receives a call asking whether an American Ebola patient can come to Emory’s special containment unit for treatment. Based on the information he receives in the call, Ribner agrees, and informs the administration. The call was on behalf of Samaritan’s Purse, the charity the patient was working for in Liberia and which has contracted to pay the costs of transport and treatment, Ribner said.
March, 2014 An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus begins in Guinea, West Africa. It has now spread to several countries and killed more than 800.
2001: Following the attacks of Sept. 11, anthrax attacks put the nation on alert. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noting the pathogens their staff regularly handle, ask nearby Emory University Hospital about establishing a highly isolated unit that could treat patients if someone gets infected. Emory proceeds to build one of four in the nation.
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