The chief medical editor of NBC News has apologized for violating her voluntary Ebola self-quarantine.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman expressed her regrets during an interview on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday.
"I'm very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that I think came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola did," Snyderman said in her first appearance since she broke her self-imposed 21-day quarantine.
Snyderman traveled to Liberia in October to report on the Ebola outbreak. A photojournalist working with her team contracted the deadly virus, and Snyderman agreed to the voluntary self-isolation before she returned to the United States.
But after returning home, Snyderman and her crew were seen getting takeout food from a New Jersey restaurant, which led state officials to make her quarantine mandatory.
"I wear two hats -- I have my doctor hat and I have my journalist hat, and when the science and the messaging sometimes collide, and you leave the optics, in this case a hot zone and come back to the United States, good people can make mistakes," Snyderman said.
"I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I'm sorry," she added.