U.S. nurses are Ebola free as wary calm, determination settles in NYC

Two American nurses who contracted Ebola from a Liberian patient in the U.S. state of Texas were declared cured on Friday, and one was healthy enough to leave the hospital and meet President Barack Obama for a hug. In the show of faith in the nation’s elite doctors and scientists, the White House did not subject the Ebola survivor Nina Pham to any additional screening before her face-to-face meeting with the president. Throughout the day, news of New York City’s first case of Ebola was met with worry and even anger on Friday, but for the city’s eight million residents, seasoned by everything from terror attacks to superstorms, there was no sign of panic.

I’m much more afraid of this year’s flu, it kills many more people. People just mis-evaluate probability and risk because the outcome is horrible.

Mollie Kirk, a 29-year-old laboratory worker and Harlem resident

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