NYT: Nurse in Newark to Be Allowed to Finish Ebola Quarantine at Home, Christie Says

New York Times ^ | October 27, 2014 | MICHAEL BARBARO and MARC SANTORA

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A nurse who recently returned from West Africa and was quarantined for the past three days in a tent behind a New Jersey hospital despite having no symptoms associated with Ebola will be allowed to return home to serve out the rest of her mandatory quarantine.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, in a brief interview, said that he expected her to be transferred Monday morning after doctors and federal officials signed off on the plan.

The treatment of the nurse, Kaci Hickox, has drawn withering criticism from both public health officials and the nurse herself. Ms. Hickox lives in Fort Kent, Me.

“I’m hopeful that this morning if all goes well we’ll be able to release her and send her back to Maine,” Mr. Christie said.

Ms. Hickox called her treatment inhumane and castigated Governor Christie for saying she was “obviously ill” when she displayed no symptoms of Ebola.

“It appears that they’re intending to release her but I have not yet been able to confirm it,” said Steven Hyman, a lawyer representing Ms. Hickox. “I’m waiting to hear back from the attorney general.”

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Looks comfy.

She could likely order up a heater or two. Compared to the rest of the costs they'd be nearly trivial.

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[Sons of Union Vets]

Thanks.

If these nurses and doctors are so undisciplined in the USA, it is most likely because the true and exclusive purpose of their Ebola safaris is not that of helping Ebola victims in third world socialist crapholes.....but rather that of hunting big game....namely, their own self-aggrandizement.

FYI, when Kaci initially applied to work with Doctors Without Borders, they reportedly said thanks but no thanks.

Why they did so is another question for inquiring minds, n'est ce pas???....

Initially turned down for Doctors Without Borders, Hickox applied for a position with the Centers for Disease Control’s infectious disease unit. She received that position and began a two-year fellowship in Las Vegas, NV where she currently still works. Hickox’s travels as a nurse took her to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Nigeria and convinced her of the importance of quarantines and “health surveillance,” according to the University of Texas-Arlington newsmagazine. “I realize that we need to find better ways to improve health surveillance and outbreak response in settings with poor resources,” Hickox said. “My training in the EIS with the CDC will allow me to learn the gold standard of this kind of work.” But Hickox, who is a registered Democrat in Nevada, is ignoring health surveillance as she pushes back against a mandatory quarantine for persons working with ebola in West Africa. Doctors Without Borders — where Hickox worked for a year, according to her LinkedIn– has already had nine deaths from Ebola and more than sixteen infections but Hickox is complaining about being detained under a mandatory 21-day quarantine.......

http://gotnews.com/ebola-nurse-complaining-quarantine-left-wing-democrat-cdc-employee/

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Somewhere along the way, Hickox apparently had an ideological (not scientific) "epiphany" according to which health surveillance no longer squared with the equally unscientific pronunciamentos of the Obama administration.