A nurse who arrived in New Jersey today was placed in quarantine and now she has developed a fever.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20141024_ap_45aa1936426c4309ad73c1cb9fa303f7.html
Hello; it seems that the national authorities are still not willing to take these more aggressive quarantine measures but the state and local authorities are.
I understand there will be criticism about this being an overreaction.
I also understand that some medical workers who are willing to face the risks of traveling to treat the infected in Africa may also not be willing to face a three week quarantine. Very interesting. Willing to risk their lives but not to give up the time? I see the point of view in terms of their being able to travel freely as much more convenient and practical for the shifts of health care workers over the coming months, and it will be months. I do not entirely agree with the free travel point of view. I understand the need to act on the slim, and possibly only, chance to contain the virus in Africa with an army of health care workers in country. I am not convinced that the various authorities here, national and local, are yet up to the task of safely dealing with those that return infected. We have indeed been lucky that the virus is not so easy to transmit in face of the many reported errors. I am currently on the side of the mandatory three week quarantine. A quicker screening test or procedure would help to change my tune.
Outside of Mr. Duncan and the two nurses he infected, so far, I think all of the people actually having been present in the USA while infected are these medical workers back from Africa. The nurse in NJ is not known to me confirmed to be infected at this writing.
