Posted on 10/28/2014 10:29:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The nurse who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is seeking time to decompress at an undisclosed location in Maine, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Kaci Hickox's partner, a nursing student, has opted to stay away from the University of Maine at Fort Kent to be with her, a university official said. His off-campus home showed no sign of activity Tuesday.
"At this point, he has made a decision he has decided to take a break from campus," said Ray Phinney, associate dean of student life and development. "We don't know exactly when to expect him back," he added.
There was disagreement Tuesday over Hickox's status.
The state of Maine said she agreed to be quarantined, but her lawyer insisted there's no quarantine.
Steve Hyman, one of Hickox's lawyers, said the state should follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that require only monitoring, not quarantine, for health care workers who show no symptoms after treating Ebola patients.
He said he expected her to remain in seclusion for the "next day or so" while he works with Maine health officials.
There was no immediate clarification from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services or from the governor's office.
Hickox, who volunteered in Africa with Doctors Without Borders, was the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for people arriving at Newark Liberty from three West African countries.
She spent the weekend in a quarantine tent despite her objections over her treatment at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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She had no symptoms and Chris Christie and Andy Cuomo locked her in quarantine.
Well, we can agree to disagree because I would do more than voluntary monitoring if not quarantine anyone coming from that region. May that nurse have a long life to hate the rest of us.
***It is arbitrary when Chris Christie and Andy Cuomo decide to quarantine people with no symptoms.***
When Cuomo and Christie put the measures in place, they were dealing with a doctor who had arrived days earlier, had gone all over NYC via public transportation, and then came down with Ebola within a day of his travels. So the guidelines were not arbitrary by any means. It was specific for healthcare workers coming back from the Ebola hot zone.
***Her temp dropped to 98.6 and they kept her in quarantine.***
By that point in time, they already had a blood sample to test for Ebola. They had to wait for the results, just like you wait at any hospital before being released. That seems to take at least 12 hours to test. If they had released her before getting the results, and she tested positive, then there would be hell to pay for that error, just like what happened at Texas Presbyterian when they sent Duncan home early. Furthermore, in an abundance of caution, they performed a second Ebola test, which was also negative.
I’m not sure I understand why you think what was being done on behalf of all citizens was an over stretch of authority. This nurse did not have her civil rights violated, by any stretch of the imagination. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why she would think anything is wrong with these safety protocols, especially given where she had come from.
Our country is already having a lot of problems. Do you think we should add to it by not screening health care workers coming in from the hot zone? Didn’t we learn anything from Duncan’s case, or Nina Pham’s case, or Amber Vinson’s case, or Dr. Spencer’s case??
All of this Ebola business is an ongoing learning experience for our health professionals, and local, state, and federal entities. I want us to learn from mistakes, even it inconveniences a nurse who wants to pitch a hissy fit. She should be ashamed of her behavior.
She doesn’t strike me as a hero. True heroes don’t whine, as you’ve said.
A medical person can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that a ‘tent’ in medical terms is not like a outdoor camping tent. It is used ass an isolation procedure to further prevent the spread of the disease. The port-a-potty is not like the ones you find in campgrounds either, but a mobile unit for medical use. Nothing unusual to cause discomfort here.
Yes, people returning from he not zone should be screened and then monitored for 21 days.
Such monitoring can be done by their checking their temp every 12 hours or even the use of Biotelemetry where the person can be remotely monitored for vital signs.
“She doesn’t strike me as a hero. True heroes don’t whine, as you’ve said.”
She is a hero. She risked her life to go to Liberia and save the lives of Christian children.
Lefties always have "partners" unless they are gay - then they are allowed to have (indeed, MUST have) "husbands" and/or "wives" with private parts matching their own.
Bzzzz...Wrong. Try again noob.
That part is generous, yes, but coming back complaining about the screening procedure, which you’ve acknowledged is key, is not heroic. It was during the screening procedure that she turned up with a fever. Once that happened, other protocols came into play. Complaining about it, and even more so, suing, does not strike me as heroic. YMMV.
He is definitely not born and raised in Maine. Most of his friends list are people from Pacific NW and CA. Lots of Nat Park Service types, etc.
The area around Ft. Kent is probably the biggest wilderness in the NE. Allagash Wilderness area is where a lot of New Englanders come to hunt, fish, take wilderness canoe trips and generally rusticate. This will destroy the economy there. Catering to wilderness-hungry tourists is about the only way to make a living up there. That and logging, and we all know where logging has gone in the last 25 or 30 years.
BTW if the so-called "nurse" gives Ebola to anyone, I hope she gets sued into bankruptcy.
She was NOT a missionary. If nothing else, judging from her associations, I would say she was anti-Christian.
I am getting tired of the arrogance of these medical people who feel they are entitled to behave differently than the rest of us.
If they are so damned smart, they would address the fears and acknowledge them.
If the first few folks just laid low, this wouldn’t be an issue.
If this nurse happens to infect anyone in Maine, this will not go well for her...I really don’t think she understands the mood that the country is in...
Should we provide wipes for that?
re: She is a hero. She risked her life to go to Liberia and save the lives of Christian children.
That she went is heroic. Then she came back and was willing to expose others if she did indeed have the deadly disease and demand her right to do so. The latter is anything but heroic. What you call “heroic” I would call a great example of utter selfishness. Interesting that there has not been any such whining and martyrdom and hiring of attorneys by the missionary doctors and nurses who have returned from Ebola stricken countries. Just her. But I forgot. She is “special”.
You are much to kind. I'd hope she gets fed to a chipper shredder backed up to a catfish pond....if she doesn't succumb to Obola, first.
I disagree. Anybody that has been around infected Ebola patients needs to be quarantined upon return. That is just common sense. Apparently the doctor in NYC did not have symptoms at first either. If he had been quarantined upon arrival, he would not have been riding around the subway or infecting bowling alleys. You think it is better to leave these people free to roam around and spread disease if they do turn out to be infected? The military people are being quarantined upon return from West Africa. I do not see why the civilian medical people who go there should not be, especially since they likely had much more contact with Ebola patients than the average soldiers do.
The vast majority of the children with Ebola in Liberia are Christian.
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