Retracing What the NYC Ebola Patient Was Doing Before He Was Hospitalized (New York Times)

Craig Spencer, a Manhattan doctor who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, tested positive for the disease on Thursday. Officials said he was not symptomatic when he traveled around the city and therefore had not posed a risk to the public. 

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Officials said Dr. Spencer visited locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn before he became sick. He took the A and L trains on Wednesday to theGutter 1 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he bowled with friends. He took an Uber taxi back to Manhattan. He also went to the High Line 2and may have stopped at a restaurant along the way. He rode the 1 train and went on a three-mile jog. At 11 a.m. Thursday, he reported having a 100.3-degree fever. Medical workers, wearing full protective gear, picked him up from hisHarlem home 3, which was then sealed off. He was transported to Bellevue Hospital Center 4 and arrived shortly after 1 p.m. He was placed in isolation, and his fiancée was being quarantined. Officials from his employer,NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center 5, said that he had not been back to work since returning to New York from Guinea on Oct. 17.

Where Dr. Spencer Is Being Treated

Dr. Spencer is in one of four isolation rooms in the infectious disease ward on an upper floor of this building. The rooms have been designated for high-probability or confirmed Ebola cases. The ward also has a laboratory to handle Ebola blood samples.