It was a circus created by politicians, including Christie.
She had a fever when she first landed in Newark. She tested negative for Ebola, but an early test is no guarantee that someone doesn’t have the illness. She was supposed to stay in quarantine for 21 days. She spent three days in NJ, and then she was driven to Maine which also had a 21-day quarantine. She was expected to spend the remainder of her quarantine at home in Maine, but she refused and filed a lawsuit. A judge ruled she did not have to quarantine, but he ordered that she must be monitored.
See my post #28 above. I never complained when I was isolated for a suspected illness and then tested negative for it. Many people are isolated after they are exposed to an illness. This woman is a nurse. No doubt she at times insisted patients stay in isolation. When it was her turn, she had a meltdown. She was lucky it turned out she wasn’t ill, and so was everyone else.
The first case of Ebola in NYC was a doctor who’d returned from West Africa. He traveled around the city, and he never had any symptoms - until he did. Then, he and everyone in close contact with him had to be quarantined: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/doctor-who-worked-in-africa-first-ebola-case-in-new-york-city-idUSKCN0ID0FC/