Remember the nurse under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey after caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone? Remember she blasted the more stringent state policies for dealing with health care workers returning from West Africa, saying the change could lead to medical professionals being treated like “criminals and prisoners?” Kaci Hickox, the nurse, has now hired a civil rights attorney to sue for the breach of her rights.
Kaci Hickox earlier on wrote that she was ordered placed in quarantine at a hospital, where she has now tested negative in two tests for Ebola. Still, hospital officials told her she must remain under quarantine for 21 days.
“This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me,” she wrote.
The two-state policy was implemented the same day that nurse Kaci Hickox landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after working with Doctors Without Borders in treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.