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Darrell Issa on Quarantines: Governors React To Ebola Leadership Void
Newsmax.com ^ | October 26, 2014 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 10/27/2014 7:45:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

State governors are enacting quarantines on healthcare professionals returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa because the American public does not trust the Obama administration to handle the growing crisis, California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Sunday.

"Governors of both parties are reacting to an absence of leadership," Issa, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told CNN "State of the Union" host Candy Crowley.

Over the weekend, the states of New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have all imposed mandatory quarantines on people returning from West Africa, particularly healthcare workers, after Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer was diagnosed with the deadly disease seven days after returning to New York City.

The alarm bells rang after the doctor admitted going to several places in the city after his return, including going bowling the night before he was diagnosed with Ebola. He remains in New York City's Bellevue Hospital.

However, Issa said he is not sure that the mandatory quarantines, which require those who treated Ebola to be quarantined for 21 days until they can be cleared of infection, will be effective.

"Science has told us, if we are to take them at their word, that if someone doesn’t have an elevated temperature or the other later symptoms, that we can rely on them not being contagious," Issa said. "If that’s true, then immediate isolation of people for 21 days is not the answer. Again, trust matters."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: candycrowley; cnn; craigspencer; darrellissa; ebola; government; governors; obama; quarantines

1 posted on 10/27/2014 7:45:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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PING!


2 posted on 10/27/2014 7:46:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

M-O-O-N, spells Obola


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3 posted on 10/27/2014 7:48:03 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You can’t trust someone who is probably not in in their right mind.


4 posted on 10/27/2014 7:55:30 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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The Rat Man forgive you!


5 posted on 10/27/2014 7:57:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You lost me at “Darrell Issa”


6 posted on 10/27/2014 8:29:55 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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