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Nurse Wins Ebola Quarantine Court Battle, Backs Off Stance
Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend Ted Wilbur – photo from the Portland Press Herald
Kaci Hickox won the court battle over quarantine, after a Judge lifted the stringent restrictions placed on her. He did replace those requirements with moderate ones which should mediate any problems. The nurse has backed off her rigid stance to accept those “kinder, gentler” requirements.
Not cooperative then, but now…
As reported by Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children previously, Kaci was not willing to cooperate with any New Jersey quarantine requirements. She openly defied them, stating she was not sick and wasn’t about to skip going on bike rides or anything else. She was so defiant about it that she hired a well known attorney to fight for her- and it worked, as she was released from New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine to go back home to Maine.
But Maine was so concerned that they went to court to obtain the legal right to force her into quarantine.
That’s when we found out she was a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, not just a nurse for Doctors Without Borders.
New rules – she will comply
The judge said that the State of Maine failed to produce enough evidence to warrant a mandatory quarantine.
District Court Chief Judge Charles LaVerdiere ordered nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, to submit to “direct active monitoring,” coordinate travel with public health officials and immediately notify health authorities should symptoms appear. Another hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
Standing with her boyfriend Ted Wilbur, outside their home in Maine, Hickox told reporters the decision was a “good compromise” and that she would continue to comply with direct active monitoring.
Hickox told Meet the Press that she wanted the national debate to be about “science” not fear. She is right about that part. Fear is highly destructive to all, and causes people and especially governments to do foolish things.
In an interview with the Portland Press Herald, she stated,
“I understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week and I apologize to them for that… have had a few friends come visit me in my home and that’s absolutely fantastic.
Sometimes we fight for our rights, but it doesn’t mean we have to act on them… I hope in six months aid workers returning back can be unnoticed. They won’t be in the media like I was, I hope.
And they can walk into a grocery store and maybe no one even knows they were working in a country with Ebola. But one day I hope everyone can know and still smile at them in the grocery store. I know that won’t happen today.” Kaci Hickox
Kaci and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, have gone biking together, and she has been seen paying for home delivery of food. She was tested for Ebola twice and came up negative both times. Her monitoring period will end on November 10.
The following interview with Kaci is from the Portland Press Herald
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