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News & Notes: Nancy Snyderman apologizes for violating quarantine

Princeton resident and NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman returned to broadcast news on Wednesday and apologized for “scaring [her] community,”according to the Princeton Packet.

After coming into contact with a colleague infected with Ebola, Snyderman went on a voluntary 21-day quarantine.

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However, she was found to have violated that quarantine when she was seen in public before the quarantine period ended and was forced to go on a mandatory quarantine for the remainder of the 21 days.

“I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that I think came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola did,” Snyderman said to Matt Lauer on the Today Show on Wednesday.

She explained that she wears “two hats” as both a journalist and doctor, and that “messaging sometimes collide.”

Snyderman said that her crew did not appreciate how frightened the American public was of Ebola at the time and added that the public should focus on helping those in West Africa.

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