Posted on 10/28/2014 7:06:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ebola health care worker Kaci Hickox, who was released from quarantine with the support of the White House, is a Centers For Disease Control and Prevention employee, records reveal. The lawyer who helped earn her release is a recent White House state dinner guest.
Hickox was released from Ebola quarantine in Newark, N.J., Monday afternoon after the White House pressured New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to release the nurse that was working in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders. Hickox’s case for release was also bolstered by New York civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, who took on Hickox’s case.
“I feel like my basic human rights have been violated,” Hickox said before she was evaluated by CDC and transported back to her home in Maine.
Here’s an overlooked factor that could have contributed to her White House-backed release: Hickox is an official CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer who performed work for the CDC in recent months.
Hickox was a Class of 2012 member of CDC’s two-year EIS officer training program, according to the official program for CDC’s 2014 EIS Conference (p. 98), which was held from April 28 to May 1, 2014. Hickox was featured in a photograph in the program.
Hickox was listed as an “EIS officer” for the CDC in program materials for a CDC course she taught in July 2014. She was specifically listed as an active “EIS officer” as recently as July 18, 2014, according to CDC documents.
Hickox was a presenter at the CDC conference this spring, according to the program’s list of presenters (p. 103).
Hickox taught an April 29 session called “Contact Investigation of Health Care Personnel Exposed to Maternal and Neonatal Tuberculosis—Clark County, Nevada, 2013″ at the conference (p. 3).
“During the 2-year training program, EIS officers are employees of the CDC and receive a salary and benefits. Salaries range from $65,000 to 90,000 per year, based on qualifications and experience,” according to CDC’s website.
Hickox’s lawyer Norman Siegel, meanwhile, was an official guest at the White House State Dinner on Feb. 11, 2014, accompanying Jackie Robinson’s widow Rachel Robinson, who supported Siegel’s failed 2009 run for New York City Public Advocate. Siegel is the former director of the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel previously partnered with Al Sharpton to fight against a New York state proposal to keep a DNA database of felons.
Siegel did not return a request for comment.
No. She has not accepted being quarantined. She is refusing to quarantine herself.
The girl is a liar. She claimed she wanted to go home, but she didn’t. She went to visit her boyfriend, she didn’t go home. And now she is somewhere but not at the boyfriend’s house. She is in hiding, probably in a hotel.
Won’t that be good for the tourist business.
Is she an RN? I thought she was caring for ebola patients in Africa. What was she doing there?
Crazy Debbie and Nurse Hickox both get their hair done and oil changed at Jiffy Lube.
What if Christie had said “NO”?
You are talking about the New Jersey quarantine, I heard on the news, Vermont is going to use quarantines.
See links. Maybe I should not have gone off-topic though the Maine quarantine seems to apply to her.
http://vtdigger.org/2014/10/28/vermonter-quarantined-test-ebola/
And in fact, Maine is going to quarantine as well.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/maine-willing-to-enforce-ebola-quarantine-official-says-1414541223
One governor with balls or a health official with a sheriff back up could have put an end to this BS.
Knowing alot of medical professionals this “nurse” sure sounded more like a political operative than a nurse.
I hope she loses her license for this stunt.
AP Story because that WSJ story has a wall:
“Maine prepared to enforce ‘voluntary’ quarantine on health care workers exposed to Ebola
FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — Health officials said Tuesday they’re prepared to legally enforce the state’s “voluntary” quarantine on health care workers who’ve treated Ebola patients.
Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew declined during a news conference to comment specifically on the case of nurse Kaci Hickox, who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital before traveling home to Maine. But Mayhew said her department and the attorney general’s office were prepared to take legal steps to enforce a quarantine if someone declines to cooperate.”
This is off of the Freedomoutpostcom website. Which they have a long article on this(but I didn’t post it because of this article) and have information at the end for filing a complaint against her for unprofessional conduct and violations of standard professional conduct the address for both Texas and Maine Nursing Boards are listed below.
State of Texas Board of Nursing
William P. Hobby Building
233 Guadalupe, Suite 3-460
Austin, TX 78701-3944
Toll-free complaint line: 1-800-821-3205
Email: webmaster@bon.texas.gov
State of Maine Board of Nursing
161 Capital Street
158 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0158
Phone: 207-287-1133
Probation and Compliance: 207-287-1144
Email: jayne.winters@maine.gov
Here is the link to their page with this information if you want to read it too,
Hickox says she will not comply with Maine quarantine
She was about as obvious as you can get. Another example of how stupid intelligence officers are these days.
The stench of political mischief was all over this story from the first hour. She has become another political whore for the Obama administration. It is a resume enhancer for her.
you’re knocking at the right door. I’m interested in knowing how long nurse was incountry, and how many patients she attended besides the one on her last night, that makes her so absolutely confident she couldn’t possibly be a carrier?
So, we have an Obama shill trying to defend his idiotic policy.
She reminds me of Sandra Fluke.
a LOOK AT ME moment for this nobody, who will probably be given a big shot job for the bang up job she did for acting like an ass...
NJ highest tax burden in the USA.
Christie sucks
Lets get this ebola election over with, so we don’t have to hear any more BeeEss about Obola.
Almost as good an October surprise as Benghazi and the video that did not matter.
(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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