Ebola Nurse Quarantined in N.J. Criticizes Rules
Ebola Nurse Quarantined in N.J. Criticizes Rules – A nurse, who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined upon her arrival at a New Jersey airport Friday — and who later tested negative for the disease — is criticizing how she was treated, describing a chaotic scene where she was made to feel like a criminal.
In a first-person account in the Dallas Morning News, nurse Kaci Hickox said of her three-hour wait at Newark Liberty International Airport: “No one seemed to be in charge. No one would tell me what was going on or what would happen to me.”
She was taken by police escort to an isolation tent outside Newark’s University Hospital, where an oral thermometer found no fever, but a forehead scanner again read 101 degrees, she wrote.
A blood test later tested negative for the virus that has killed at nearly 5,000 people worldwide, and likely more.
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