State-imposed quarantines for health workers who return from helping Ebola patients are driven by “an abundance of politics,” defiant nurse Kaci Hickox told NBC News’ Meet The Press on Sunday. Hickox had a public spat with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last week after enduring a weekend in an isolation tent near the airport in Newark where she returned from Sierra Leone. “When Gov. Christie stated that it was an abundance of caution, which is his reasoning for putting health care workers in a sort of quarantine for three weeks, it was really an abundance of politics,” she told Chuck Todd. “And I think all of the scientific and medical and public health community agrees with me on that statement." A judge in Maine ruled Friday that Hickox can come and go as she pleases, as long as she is monitored for symptoms and lets health officials know where she’s going. http://nbcnews.to/1DMgZXM http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
'Abundance of Politics': Nurse Slams Christie Over Quarantine
State-imposed quarantines for health workers who return from helping Ebola patients are driven by “an abundance of politics,” defiant nurse Kaci Hickox told NBC News’ Meet The Press on Sunday. Hickox had a public spat with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last week after enduring a weekend in an isolation tent near the airport in Newark where she returned from Sierra Leone. “When Gov. Christie stated that it was an abundance of caution, which is his reasoning for putting health care workers in a sort of quarantine for three weeks, it was really an abundance of politics,” she told Chuck Todd. “And I think all of the scientific and medical and public health community agrees with me on that statement." A judge in Maine ruled Friday that Hickox can come and go as she pleases, as long as she is monitored for symptoms and lets health officials know where she’s going. http://nbcnews.to/1DMgZXM http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
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