“I’ve been seeing Ebola on TV, how it starts, with muscle pain, red eyes. When I see his eye, it is all red, and I think maybe this time it is Ebola virus and I should be careful,” Jallah, 35, said in an interview with The Washington Post at her nearby apartment, where she and her family have been quarantined.
She dialed 911. “My daddy is going to the bathroom constantly,” she told the operator, referring to Duncan, whom she considers her stepfather.
No one in the family has seen Duncan since he left the apartment Sunday morning in an ambulance.
[CDC officials visited and took everyone's temp.] “We don’t have any food,” Jallah said. “What do we do?”
She was told that she and Yah, but not the kids, could go to the store.
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“I’m going to call an ambulance,” she said.
Duncan tried to resist. He had been to the hospital once already, several days earlier, and all they had done was send him home with antibiotics. Jallah didn’t listen to him. She dialed 911.
“My daddy is going to the bathroom constantly,” she told the operator, referring to Duncan, whom she considers her stepfather.
Fifteen minutes later, two paramedics knocked on the door. Jallah greeted the two men but told them that they couldn’t enter until they put on gloves and face*masks. “He just come from Liberia,” she explained. “For safety, don’t touch anything. Viruses.”
<snip>Reluctantly, Jallah and the others left the hospital and returned to Troh’s apartment. While a cousin swept the floors, Jallah placed the blanket she had bought back on her mother’s bed, sprayed disinfectant throughout the apartment and sprinkled liquid Clorox on the furniture.
“Don’t sleep in that bed,” she told Troh.
“Oh, you just bought that blanket,” her mother complained.
But Jallah was insistent. Later, she bought her mother sanitizers, a makeshift mattress and two new blankets.<snip>
Jallah and Yah are careful not to shake the hands of visitors and when someone leaves, they use a sanitizing wipe to turn the doorknob to let the person out.
Well, at least they seem to have some common sense, but they still should have told the paramedics it could be Ebola.
