Lara Logan Quarantined For 21 Days After Reporting From Liberia
Lara Logan is the latest news reporter to go into quarantine after covering the Ebola crisis in West Africa. No worries about the reporters crew carrying the disease to the U.S., she submitted herself to the voluntary isolation in a South African hotel. Although the Logan and her team took every precaution, she doesn’t want to take any chances, something of a contrast to NBC’s Nancy Snyderman.
Logan went to Liberia to do a report about a clinic run by the American relief organization International Medical Corps. The clinic is on the front-lines of the battle against Ebola. In Liberia the fatality rate for the disease is about 70 percent, according to CBS News. Logan described why she wanted to face that danger.
“We thought that the Americans who are working there — who are with these people every day, who have chosen to be there — could help bring to life the suffering of the Liberians through their own experiences.”
During her trip, Lara Logan received constant disease protection from Geoff Mabberley, who explain his job to CBS.
“I’m just constantly looking at what they’re touching, where they’re going, where they’re standing, where they’re moving… [and] try and protect them from that next move.”
The extreme caution seems to differ greatly from NBS News‘ Nancy Snyderman, who was publicly criticized for breaking her own quarantine to visit a New Jersey restaurant. According to the New York Post, the backlash was so harsh that NBC is now trying to decide if her credibility is too badly damaged for her to continue reporting.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, not only did Dr. Snyderman break quarantine, her apology afterwards came off as insincere, earning her the wraith of television personalities from CNN to the View.
Lara Logan’s self-imposed quarantine will end on Friday, so far controversy free. The serious quarantine not only will protect people’s health, it may protect careers, but all that seems minor compared to the suffering Logan reported on in Liberia.
“[Ebola in Liberia] is very much like a war. You have to keep it together because that’s your job, and you can’t be here if you can’t do that. But it’s so heartbreaking. It’s really been hard on all of us.”
Luckily, Logan and her crew have no Ebola symptoms, although according to The Daily Mail, they are suffering from some cabin fever. Until Friday Lara will have to continue reporting from her hotel room in South Africa.
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