Fighting Ebola on the home front: Confusion reigns supreme
Rick Hampson
USA TODAY
October 28, 2014
– Americans are afraid of Ebola, sometimes panicky. And increasingly, as they behold the national response to the virus, they’re simply befuddled.
When leaders differ — and bicker — over how to deal with those who might have been exposed in Africa, one casualty is public peace of mind.
The federal government says one thing, and some states say another. Then those states say something else. And so does Washington.
A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa is “obviously ill” upon arrival in Newark, according to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and confined to a hospital isolation tent until she displays no symptoms and is allowed to travel home to Maine.
The White House says it conveyed concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey that their stringent quarantine policies were “not grounded in science” and would hamper efforts to recruit volunteers to fight the epidemic in Africa. But Christie says he’d “gotten absolutely no contact” from the administration.
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