Student at Yale potentially sick with Ebola

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<p><a href="http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yale-new-haven-hospital-1017-20141016-story.html"&gt;http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yale-new-haven-hospital-1017-20141016-story.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Here’s President Salovey’s letter to the Yale Community about this.

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<p>I just wish the students, doctors and the whole health department at Yale followed a more conservative protocol after coming back from Liberia. I understand these students did not have direct contact with the sick or the medical staff, however to just PREVENT why not quarantine for 3-4 weeks. Just to be safe?</p>

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<p>Especially since they were willing to do it and offered. This is, as a parent, my worse nightmare. Prayers that he just has the flu (which has been going around campus).</p>

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<p><a href=“Yale-New Haven Patient Tests Negative For Ebola – Hartford Courant”>http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yale-new-haven-hospital-1017-20141016-story.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Preliminary test results reported to be negative for Ebola.
<a href=“Yale-New Haven Patient Tests Negative For Ebola – Hartford Courant”>Yale-New Haven Patient Tests Negative For Ebola – Hartford Courant;
Yale Daily News says this has not yet been confirmed, however. Link above seems to be updating frequently, as is the YDN story.</p>

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<p>And here’s the official update</p>

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<p>Update
Dear parents and guardians of students in Yale College,</p>

<p>I write with an update that President Salovey just sent to the Yale community, with news that the doctoral student about whom he wrote this morning has tested negative for the Ebola virus. Even so, that student, and the second student who had traveled to Liberia, will be quarantined for 21 days.</p>

<p>I will continue to pass along information as soon as it becomes available. You will always be able to find current information about the Ebola virus at the websites of Yale News and of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; I encourage you to check them often.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Jonathan Holloway
Dean of Yale College
Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies</p>

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<p>October 16, 2014</p>

<p>To the Yale Community:</p>

<p>I am relieved that Yale-New Haven Hospital has reported that the doctoral student we told you about this morning has tested negative for the Ebola virus. Nonetheless, this student and the other doctoral student who traveled to Liberia will be quarantined for 21 days from their return, as required by the State of Connecticut.</p>

<p>I want to offer my continuing gratitude to everyone at Yale, Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the city, state, and federal governments who have had a role in caring for these students in recent days. Ebola remains a serious concern for all of us. We will continue to provide information to you as we receive it from emergency management, health professionals, and government health agencies. I join with all of the Yale community in the fervent hope that more good news will be forthcoming.</p>

<p>Sincerely,
Peter Salovey
President and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology </p>