"Train starts pulling up to the station, doesn't stop," described witness and DART passenger Anita Coker. "We see all the red lights, we see a lady on a bench in a hazmat mask."
The woman, hauled off to the hospital in head-to-toe protective gear as a precaution, did not end up having Ebola, officials said, despite conflicting reports earlier in the day from DART officials that she might have been on the Ebola watch list.
She wasn't.
If no new cases present, then the original 48 people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan will be in the clear, including his fiancee, Louise Troh.
"[Sunday] afternoon, staff or someone will go by and review the family and take their temperature and make a determination that this is the end and they are clear," said Zach Thompson, Dallas County's health director.
Monday, the family will sign a release and be freed from quarantine.
A lack of new cases this weekend would also be important because of the wider implications.
"We're going to be statistically less likely to see more cases," Jenkins explained.
But even when Duncan's family ends their quarantine, they will not be returning to the scene of America's first Ebola case.
"This is a critical weekend," said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
He said the Ebola watch list could be cut by nearly a third Sunday at
midnight. News 8's Lauren Zakalik has more.
WFAA
Despite Saturday's events, Jenkins said the county's residents continue to remain calm and level-headed about the outbreak. Anita Coker, who was stuck at the DART station Saturday, feels the panic may subside if or when the two nurses stricken treating Duncan survive Ebola.
"If they can get over it and we don't have anymore outbreaks, then I think maybe it will slowly calm down," she said.
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http://www.kens5.com/story/news/health/ebola/2014/10/19/critical-weekend-ebola-fight/17549283/
As I write this it is now 4:11 pm Texas time.
However, where I am right now it is 6:12 am Monday in South Korea.
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