Speaking to CNN’s Don Lemon in an interview set to air Thursday night, Dallas Nurse Amber Vinson got emotional while defending taking a commercial plane ride after treating an Ebola patient.
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“I’m a nurse, I care,” she said. “I would not put myself in danger first, I would not take Ebola to my family and my best girlfriends, I would not endanger families across the nation potentially exposing to them anything–I had no symptoms, at the time, I couldn’t transmit it.”
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The nurse treated now-deceased Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and then flew to Ohio to visit family a week after Duncan’s death, where she fell ill. She received major criticism for traveling after treating an Ebola patient.
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“That really affected you?” Lemon asked.
“Yea, it’s just not me,” Vinson said before tears started rolling. “All I do is care. All I want to do is help. I would never try to hurt anyone.”
Lemon’s full interview with Vinson airs Thursday night on CNN at 10p.m.ET.
