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of Patients at the NIH gala. I stayed there with Christine for an hour or so and then went back to the Clinical Center to await the arrival of i. I gathered with the SCSU staff at the ambulance entrance to the Clinical Center. Anthony Suffredini had accompanied [ij in the ambulance which drove from Frederick airport when the plane landed to the Clinical Center in Bethesda. Anthony was dressed in full personal protective equipment (PPE). When J Arrived Cliff Lane, Rick Davey, head of the SCSU, John Gallin, and I awaited her together with Tara Palmore who was dressed in full PPE gear. By the time we got settled upstairs in the SCSU it was in the middle of the night. I remember walking through the atrium at the Clinical Center to get on the elevator to go up to the SCSU, I had this extraordinary déja vu feeling of walking the halls late at night as an intern, resident, and chief resident at the New York HospitalCornell Medical Center where I often stayed up throughout the night taking care of patients. It was in fact an extraordinarily positive feeling that I had. I was doing something that I have always loved to do and continue to love to do - talking care of a sick patient in the middle of the night when there were only essential people around. Quiet, but intense. Oct. 17, 2014 (Friday) -- We (John Gallin, Cliff Lane, and I hold an incredibly well attended Town Hall meeting in Masur auditorium explaining to the NIH staff what we had done in admitting land why we felt that this was an important duty of ours. The crowd overflowed to Lipsett Auditorium and other rooms and still more people watched. on the webcast. Most people were supportive, but some objected such as Wyndom Wilson (NCI) who was concerned about our staff getting infected and then infecting others in the hospital. Typical Wyndom. Importantly, I did a press conference in front of the Clinical Center with dozens of TV cameras and reporters explaining why we admitted I a what the SCSU was all about. Intensive media interest. Staring from the night of| admission through Oct. 31, due to a number of crises and briefing that I needed to do and prepare for, I averaged about 3 to at the most 4 hours of sleep per night. I usually awoke at 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM having gone to sleep at midnight or later. The adrenaline surge must have awakened me, but that is what I did for several nights. Interesting situation arose. While cliff Lane was walking down a hall in the Clinical Center he ran into . They told Cliff that they were concermed since after the first night tha care of] in Dallas, she called her mother and sister and tried not to worry them, but did mention to them that she was unsure if they were properly protected with the PPE protocol that they were on. When ven! o Das i and tried to explain to a CDC person(s) who were there and they got the impression that the Texas Presbyterian Hospital people did not really want them to speak with the CDC. Cliff told me this and confirmed this in a conversation with Diana and Cathy as did John Gallin in a separate conversation.