Ebola: nurse placed in ‘inappropriate’ quarantine released from hospital Kaci Hickox had threatened to sue over detention New Jersey and New York scale back quarantine plans Jon Swaine in New York and Dan Roberts in Washington - theguardian.com, Monday 27 October 2014 11.07 EDT
A nurse detained after returning to the US from treating Ebola patients in west Africa is to be released, as the governors of New York and New Jersey scaled back plans to forcibly quarantine medics who came into contact with the virus.
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Monday that Kaci Hickox, a nurse who threatened to sue after being held in a tent at a Newark hospital since her arrival from Sierra Leone on Friday, despite testing negative for Ebola, was being discharged.
Christie’s office said in a statement that Hickox would be transported to her home state. “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,” it said.
The release of Hickox, a nurse for Doctors Without Borders, known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), followed pressure from the White House, sharp criticism of her treatment from mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, and the nurse’s decision to recruit Norman Siegel, a renowned civil rights lawyer.
The retreat by Christie, a Republican widely viewed as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, came after he initially insisted that the quarantine was necessary to protect the people of New Jersey. He continued to claim that Hickox was “obviously ill” after she had tested negative for Ebola.
Ebola: Genetically Modified Organism developed in US Biowarfare Laboratories in Africa.
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, October 21, 2014 paulcraigroberts.org Region: sub-Saharan Africa Theme: Militarization and WMD, Science and Medicine
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