A Texas Senate committee on Tuesday will hold a hearing into how the state has responded to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee will hear from three panels of witnesses beginning at 2 p.m.
Dr. Kyle Janek, Texas Health and Human Services executive commissioner, will testify first about Ebola patient Thomas Duncan's travels and how he ended up at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, according to a Senate aide.
The second panel will include representatives from the hospital and the Texas Hospital Association. They are expected to address why doctors sent Duncan home the first time he went to the emergency room, even though he told a nurse he had recently traveled from Liberia.
The hospital blamed a 'flaw' in its computer software that didn't allow a doctor to see the travel information a nurse had entered but the hospital later retracted that explanation.
The final witnesses will include university researchers who are trying to find an Ebola vaccine that can be mass produced.
NBC 5's Scott Gordon is attending the hearing in Austin, he'll have the latest in reports at 4, 5, 6 & 10 p.m. on NBC 5.
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