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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A tent without heat, and a toilet that did not flush.
But the tent was unnecessary. If you are going to quarantine an asymptomatic person, there is really no reason not to do so from home. Make it a mandatory quarantine, subject to random home visits (to prevent the person from breaking quarantine), but there's no need to keep her in a hospital far from her home, tent or no tent.
She may have been a showboat, prima donna and drama queen, but her quarantine was handled poorly by New Jersey, and I think a lot of people in her situation would have been justifiably angry.
Christie’s quarantine order only applies to NJ.
So send her to her home state (as they have since done), and let them quarantine her (as Maine has done).
I agree.
But did Maine have the quarantine in effect when she flew into NJ?
I’d like to see her lawyer give her a big wet kiss on the lips.
“home quarantine” honor system hasn’t worked. For “home quarantine” to work requires armed guards. Of course this will make their heads explode.
In America, you are more likely to be killed by the Knockout Game than die from Ebola.
And Democrats don’t believe either one exist.
We have had people in the tri-city area break quarantine and then come down with Ebola, ok? This is a congested area and it’s an overwhelmed airport.
This woman wrote a ridiculously subjective account, describing unknown people as “smug” - and cruel and God knows what else. I’ve seen all the photos (including the smiling selfie) of her Dachau-like environment. It looked perfectly ok to me. And the stupid idea that New Jersey folk should be grateful, polite and kind to her! What an idiot.
Now I just found out she was only one month in Africa - from her account I thought she was there for at least two years. Albert Schweitzer she’s not!
||||||She reminds me of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Looks like her younger sister with the mayonnaise hairdo||||||
lol lol lol lol lol lol
You do realize that her lawyer has said she will not follow home quarantine “protocols.” Check the Maine newspapers - they’re not happy either.
From Wikipedia:
Freedom of movement under United States law is governed primarily by the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the United States Constitution which states, "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." As far back as the circuit court ruling in Corfield v. Coryell, 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (1823), the Supreme Court recognized freedom of movement as a fundamental Constitutional right. In Paul v. Virginia, 75 U.S. 168 (1869), the Court defined freedom of movement as "right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them."[1] However, the Supreme Court did not invest the federal government with the authority to protect freedom of movement. Under the "privileges and immunities" clause, this authority was given to the states, a position the Court held consistently through the years in cases such as Ward v. Maryland, 79 U.S. 418 (1871), the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873) and United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629 (1883).[2][3]
Because if she died, her heirs would have had trouble selling it.
Tenant’s Harbor in about 2 1/2 hours down the coast from where I am. All the coastal areas here are beautiful, but I’m not a big fan of the lengthy winter months.
That’s what everyone tells me. I would never buy on an unpaved road since we can’t afford an SUV. I would imagine Maine winters are cold everywhere in the state!
That lawyer better stick to her like white on rice 24/7 or she’ll be slipping out to bowling alley or making soup runs and he’ll lose any upcoming case. With the CDC, i.e. taxpayers, footing his inflated hourly bill, he should be very happy to self quarantine with her.
She was not asymptomatic when she was put in quarantine, as I understand it. She had a fever, though I do not know what it was. She had just finished a stint caring for Ebola patients. She needed to be quarantined until her test results came back. She also needed to have a mode of private transportation to her home, which she had not set up before her quarantine.
She started belly-aching the minute she was quarantined, but her fever and where she arrived from, and what she did while there, was what put that quarantine in place.
It’s true that tent living isn’t for everyone, but this was a precaution put in place, for her safety as well as others...many others! She hired a lawyer from her iphone, so her accommodations couldn’t have been too terrible. She wrote a blog while she was there. For goodness sakes, she was FINE to be in a tent for a day or two till her Ebola results came back.
Instead of being grateful that she’s come back to a place where she’s not surrounded by Ebola, she bitches about having to use a portable toilet, and having to be quarantined. It was a safety precaution, for goodness sakes! You’d think that if she was truly a caring person, she would want to quarantine herself, but no, she doesn’t want the inconvenience.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Maine is not her home state. She wanted to go see her boy friend.
Much of what the media is telling us is untrue. She does not live in Maine. Her boyfriend does. She does not work for Doctors without Borders. They had turned her down. She is a government employee, a fellow (student) with the CDC.
She is probably the most hated person in the country today. Look at her Facebook page. It’s hysterical!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaci-Hickox/684650224953610
According to the newspapers a caravan of black SUVs drove her to Maine. (government SUVs?) It's a ten hour trip. You know she had to go to the bathroom sometime during that ten hours. Maybe stop at a restaurant to eat.
How would you like to be going into a restroom on the turnpike and see *her* coming out? How do you figure out which stall she used?
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