A phrase used often during the recent Ebola outbreak is "an abundance of caution"... I believe that this is the case with these states originally requiring the quarantine after the doc showed signs of Ebola in NYC. Better to act quickly and try to stop anyone who possible could spread the disease to the large population of people in the NYC area then to risk a large amount of people getting sick. Now it seems that she will be allowed out of quartantine. Good news, I suppose. I sincerely hope that she doesn't become infected with this terrible disease.
With that said, I believe that the conditions this nurse we have been discussing had to endure were less than satisfactory, at least as reported. None of us were there to actually see her situation. And, as some others have said, she doesn't really seem to be the type of person ususally associated with the caring medical folks who volunteer their valuable time and skills to help others who are suffering. I'm sure she was glad to be back from W Africa, and was looking forward to being "home" as any of us would have been, but the thought that she might have been a threat to millions should have been obvious to her. Threatening to sue the state who quaranteed her to try to protect millions of others? REALLY???
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