Thursday, March 26, 2015

I have been chosen by Fortune magazine as one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. Also, I am on Time magazine list for voting “100 of the world’s most influential people” Patient doing well. Gave talk at the 7th International Filovirus Meeting at Marriott Hotel at Metro Center run by Heinz Feldmann. Talk went over very well. Kai Kupferschmidt was in audience and was blown away when I showed slides of me in PPE taking care of He came over afterwards and is writing a short online blog on how incredible it is that a director of a large research institute who is 74 years old is taking care of an Ebola patient. Spent a full hour with in the SCSU. He is now very talkative; however, he does have a slight expressive aphasia. His strength is coming back and he is taking a soft diet (apple sauce, etc.). Creatinine now 1.2. CT around 39. May still have some virus in tracheal secretions. He has an occasional cough that is dry; may be slightly aspirating due to pharyngeal muscle weakness. Paul Farmer heading out tomorrow to go back to West Africa via Boston.