For recovered Ebola patients, the new rules of etiquette demand hugs.
As Dr. Craig Spencer,
New York City’s first Ebola patient, demonstrated over and over and
over again on Tuesday, hugging is the new doctor’s note, the proof that
the patient is well, that the public should not be afraid and that in
the United States, the disease is not the terror-inducing epidemic it is
in West Africa.
As
Dr. Spencer was released from Bellevue Hospital Center on Tuesday,
Ebola-free after 19 days of treatment, Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomed him
“back to his normal life” on behalf of all New Yorkers. Taking a page
from President Obama’s playbook when he hugged Nina Pham, a nurse who
recovered from Ebola, the mayor turned to his wife, Chirlane McCray, at
the Bellevue news conference and asked, “Would you like to administer
the first hug, First Lady?”
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