Mandatory Quarantine Facilities Activated in New York for those flying from Africa:
New York, New Jersey Provoke Criticism With Ebola Quarantine
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"On Friday, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a mandatory 21-day Ebola quarantine on doctors and nurses returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. But by Sunday, after the White House had harshly criticized the plan, Cuomo loosened those restrictions.
The announcement of the quarantine last week by both Governor Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came one day after a New York City doctor, Craig Spencer from Doctors Without Borders, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus.
Further criticism followed when Maine nurse Kaci Hickox, returning from Sierra Leone, publicly complained about her mandatory quarantine under New Jersey’s policy, stating that she felt “like a criminal.”
According to Doctors Without Borders, Hickox has been treated poorly, and she claims that the isolation tent in which she spent the weekend outside of Newark’s University Hospital was unheated and that she was dressed in uncomfortable scrubs.
Hickox has reportedly hired Norman Siegel, a civil rights attorney who specializes in cases involving the government, to challenge the New Jersey policy."
