Posted on 10/28/2014 6:38:00 AM PDT by servo1969
A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa before being briefly and controversially quarantined in New Jersey could be the focus of a new battle over state health policy as she returns to her home state of Maine.
Kaci Hickox left a Newark hospital on Monday and was expected to arrive in the northern Maine town of Fort Kent early Tuesday. Maine health officials have already announced that Hickox is expected to comply with a 21-day voluntary in-home quarantine put in place by the state's governor, Paul LePage.
However, one of Hickox's lawyers, Steve Hyman, said he expected her to remain in seclusion for only the "next day or so" while he works with Maine health officials. He said he believes 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.
"She's a very good person who did very good work and deserves to be honored, not detained, for it," he said.
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It was reported in one of the articles posted yesterday that Doctors without borders does pay them for that 3 weeks off of work after they get back. Sounds like they are compensated for voluntary quarantine.
What was reported and the picture that was shown, was that they had used plastic to set up a makeshift quarantine area inside the hospital. It wasn’t a tent on the parking lot or ground.
WTF! It's a quarantine not a detainment, you effing idiots. If someone gets this because this rabid ideologue (who is doing Obama’s bidding) is wondering around Maine eating lobster, I hope that person sues her, her lawyer, Obama, the CDC, everyone!
“I recalled my last night at the Ebola management center in Sierra Leone. I was called in at midnight because a 10-year-old girl was having seizures. I coaxed crushed tablets of Tylenol and an anti-seizure medicine into her mouth as her body jolted in the bed.”
Either she lied in her screed, or she should be quarantined. Many HCW in Africa have died.
Very interesting.
It is really starting to look more like a setup.
What I am wondering is when she went over there and how long she was there. I saw one article that said she was there 4 weeks. Wouldn’t that mean she went there right about the time Duncan was first in the news?
My memory is hit or miss so I might have the time frame off. lol
It is really starting to look more like a setup.
Yes. Why is her lawyer advising this course of action? What is she proving? Why? What implications do her actions support? If 0bama is not behind this, then who is?
She was there a month.
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