No soup for you!
The New Jersey Health Department turned into soup Nazis when it learned NBC News reporter Dr. Nancy Snyderman violated a voluntary quarantine placed on her and her crew after one member contracted Ebola while working in Liberia.
Snyderman, 62, NBC’s chief medical editor, was spotted sitting in her car outside of The Peasant Grill in Hopewell, N.J., Thursday afternoon, Planet Princeton reported. A man with her picked up the takeout order.
Snyderman is a regular at the Peasant Grill, which is known for its soup, TMZ reported.
New Jersey officials made the quarantine mandatory late Friday after news broke that Snyderman, wearing sun glasses and with pulled-back hair, was spotted out and about.
Snyderman and NBC have been mum on the report.
The rest of the NBC team, including Snyderman, were asked to isolate themselves for 21 days. None of the crew members have shown symptoms of the virus.
The entire NBC News crew was flown back to the U.S. after Ashoka Mukpo, a 33-year-old freelance cameraman originally from Providence, R.I., started showing symptoms of the virus on Oct. 1 — one day after being hired.
Mukpo was transported to Nebraska Medical Center where he has improved over the last 48 hours and is reportedly symptom-free, the family told NBC News.
The freelance journalist celebrated his improvement on Monday by returning to Twitter.
“Back on Twitter, feeling like I’m on the road to good health,” he tweeted. “Will be posting some thoughts this week. Endless gratitude for the good vibes.”
Mukpo also wrote that “now that I’ve had first hand exp with this scourge of a disease, I’m even more pained at how little care sick west Africans are receiving.”
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