Thursday, October 30, 2014

Unstable Nurse

From the BBC:
"Ebola outbreak: Nurse Kaci Hickox defies quarantine"

A US nurse who returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has defied a quarantine order, leaving her house in Maine for a brief bike ride. Kaci Hickox maintains isolation is unnecessary, as she has no symptoms and has tested negative for Ebola. Maine officials have vowed to go to court to try to enforce the quarantine. Nearly 5,000 people have died of the disease in West Africa, but only nine patients have been treated for the virus on US soil. More than 13,700 people have been sickened in the Ebola outbreak, the vast majority in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Ebola, which is only spread through close contact with the bodily fluids of a sick patient, has a 21-day incubation period.
US officials are at odds over whether American healthcare workers who return from treating Ebola patients in West Africa should be forced into quarantine until that period has expired.  New Jersey and other states had put quarantine rules into place after a New York doctor who treated Ebola patients in West Africa came down with the disease. Ms Hickox returned to the US on Friday, landing at Newark International Airport.
Ms Hickox contested the quarantine regimen, ultimately threatening legal action. After showing no fever or other symptoms for a 24-hour period, she was discharged and brought to her home state of Maine.  On Thursday morning, Ms Hickox left her home on a bicycle, followed by police officers who monitored her movements and public interactions. She returned home shortly after.
Without a court order, the police were barred from detaining her. Maine officials have sought a judge's permission to order Ms Hickox to undergo a blood test for Ebola, Governor Paul LePage told ABC News. "This could be resolved today," Mr LePage said. "She has been exposed and she's not co-operative, so force her to take a test. It's so simple."

^ This woman seems to want more of her 15 minutes of fame than anything else. The only good that can come out of all of this now is for every hospital, clinic and doctor's office in the country to refuse to hire her. She clearly doesn't care about keeping people safe and healthy or with following the rules. It is one thing to believe the rules are wrong and try and change them and another to flaunt them and throw them in people's faces. I don't trust any of these so-called health experts and heath care workers. Doctors and nurses who have worked with those who died from Ebola are going bowling, taking cruises, going on planes, etc without a care of spreading the deadly disease to anyone else (especially before their 21 day quarantine ends.) The same with this reckless and attention-wanting nurse. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29836550
 

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