Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said in testimony before a House committee that Pham will be admitted to the NIH tonight.
There she will will be given “state of the art care” in a high-level containment facility, he says.
Officials have said Pham’s condition is good. Another nurse, Amber Vinson, who also cared for index patient Thomas Eric Duncan has also contracted the disease. Duncan died from the disease last week.
Dr. Daniel Varga, a top official from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan was treated by both Pham and Vinson, acknowledged the facility’s mishandling of the original diagnosis and subsequent handling of the situation.
“We made mistakes,” Varga said in a video link with lawmakers.