Ebola To Do List: Avoid People. Check for Fever. Ride L Train. Bowl

The Manhattan skyline is seen in the background as people relax in the Brooklyn Bridge Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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There are 8 million stories in the naked city and at the moment they’re all themed “Ebola.” Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and public health officials are trying to slim the number of stories down to one. It goes like this.

Craig Spencer, 33, is a New York City doctor who contracted Ebola while in Guinea volunteering with Doctors Without Borders. His diagnosis, the first in New York City, has brought the disease to the nation’s most densely populated region.