A nurse who successfully fought Maine’s quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients says she had no option but to challenge how medical professionals were being treated.
Kaci Hickox says in an interview with the Maine Sunday Telegram she was fighting for the rights of other U.S. medical workers who are trying to bring the deadly outbreak under control in West Africa.
After she arrived in Maine last week, state health officials went to court in an attempt to bar her from crowded public places. A judge ruled Friday she must continue daily monitoring of her health but can go wherever she pleases.
But Hickox now says she will respect the wishes of town residents and avoid going into town during the illness’s 21-day incubation period, which for her ends Nov. 10.
(AP)
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A true modern-day Sedomis. How selfish – her “right” to go outside trumps her possibly infecting others with a deadly illness!
A selfish good-for-nothing…
The modern-day Sedomites are the people who are ungrateful for the fact that this woman risked her life to work to contain this epidemic to West Africa. Were it not for people like her we’d have far more cases here in the US.