NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman was put under quarantine last fall after a member of her news crew contracted ebola during their shoot in west Africa. Snyderman then got caught breaking that quarantine at the height of the U.S.’s ebola scare, a transgression for which she apologized repeatedly and profusely. (The CDC maintained she hadn’t put anybody at risk.)
Twitter was more than happy to remind Snyderman of this sequence of events when she began tweeting about the need to consider “public responsibility” over “free will” in making sure children are vaccinated in the face of the measles resurgence:
Why should the measles outbreak scare us? Because it goes to the core of why public health is everyone's responsibility @NBCNightlyNews
— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) February 3, 2015
When free will trumps public health we put our nation's most vulnerable at risk. That doesn't seem very American to me. Vaccinate #measles
— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) February 3, 2015
Snyderman alluded to the “cheap shots” in a later tweet:
It's easy to throw cheap shots but the science is the science….and the truth has to be told. @Laursamp
— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) February 3, 2015
Snyderman wasn’t the only one this week who got tripped up by measles/Ebola two-step. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been criticized for the alleged hypocrisy in his stance that the government should allow parents “some measure of choice” in vaccines against his forced isolation of nurse Kaci Hickox last fall.
UPDATEROONY:
To set the record straight: #1 I was not exposed to Ebola #2 It was not soup #3 Vaccinations save lives…wish there were one for Ebola
— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) February 4, 2015
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