| Submit your comments on this article | |
| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| New Jersey Releases Nurse Quarantined for Suspected Ebola | |
| 2014-10-27 | |
| [NBC] The nurse forcibly quarantined in New Jersey after she came home from treating Ebola patients in West Africa will be released Monday, state officials said. Kaci Hickox has been held against her will in a tent outside a New Jersey medical center since she was taken off a flight, flushed and distraught, Friday. Hickox has hired a lawyer and spoken out publicly against her quarantine. "Since testing negative for Ebola on early Saturday morning, the patient being monitored in isolation at University Hospital in Newark has thankfully been symptom free for the last 24 hours," New Jersey health department officials said in a statement. "As a result, and after being evaluated in coordination with the CDC and the treating clinicians at University Hospital, the patient is being discharged." The case quickly escalated over the weekend, with Hickox protesting from her confinement and scientists including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saying there was no medical basis to hold her. The White House even weighed in, pressing New York and New Jersey to reverse their decisions to quarantine all returning medical workers who have treated Ebola patients. Hickox will be allowed to take private transport home to Maine. "Since the patient had direct exposure to individuals suffering from the Ebola Virus in one of the three West African nations, she is subject to a mandatory New Jersey quarantine order," the statement read. "Health officials in Maine have been notified of her arrangements and will make a determination under their own laws on her treatment when she arrives."
| |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 rammer, it takes time for even the fever to materialize. The biggest danger is the next four or five days, with the odds getting better out to 42 days after exposure. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-10-27 23:13 |
| #12 She almost certainly does not have Ebola. She should have been checked for fever and lacking one, transported to Maine to be quarantined at her home for an appropriate time. If the health agencies sending people abroad cannot figure out how to manage their operation with this kind of reasonable precaution in countries without an epidemic like America, then they should not count on a lot of support from the American or other peoples. |
| Posted by: rammer 2014-10-27 20:28 |
| #11 Subsidized immigration = easy rental profits for the establishment. You don't want them to have to work for a living do you? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-27 17:57 |
| #10 Why is the Mobama's administration so vested in preventing state quarantines such that he called various governors about lifting their quarantines? Quarantines may lead to border entry restrictions. Champ wants open borders, regardless of the risks involved. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-27 16:35 |
| #9 Why is the Mobama's administration so vested in preventing state quarantines such that he called various governors about lifting their quarantines? Because, being infallible, once the One decides, he doesn't looks at new evidence. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-27 16:30 |
| #8 The whining nurse, the CDC and the administration are the one's who look bad on this issue. This action against Christie's quarantine will probably do more for him politically than when he reigned in the NJ teacher's union. Citizens on both sides of the aisle are mostly for quarantines. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2014-10-27 16:16 |
| #7 Why is the Mobama's administration so vested in preventing state quarantines such that he called various governors about lifting their quarantines? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-27 16:04 |
| #6 Heard today the military is considering or going to implement a mandatory 21 day quarantine for military members coming back from ebola-infected areas of West Africa. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-27 16:03 |
| #5 She could have been the model for returning volunteers and set the historical standards. But instead she decided to be self centered and petty. She now has the potential for being patient zero and follow in the likes of Typhoid Mary. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-10-27 13:17 |
| #4 Lets hope Maine also places her under Quarantine - under even worse conditions and starting the 'timer' from zero again. Will she be held personally responsible (i.e. charged with Murder) of someone catches it from her and dies? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-10-27 12:29 |
| #3 she should be released back to West Africa. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-27 12:22 |
| #2 Oh? Tell us more, Frozen Al. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-27 11:45 |
| #1 More darkly amusing is that Maine doesn't want her. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2014-10-27 11:39 |