Kaci Hickox

One odd thing to come out of the ongoing Ebola drama was a piece I heard this morning on our news report stating that we have no written policy on quarantine. Barring anything that’s come from the CDC, we’ve been left to our own devices to come up with a policy on what to do with travelers and health care workers coming through Newark from West Africa...

Kaci Hickox, the American nurse who was quarantined in New Jersey, left to return home to Maine where she lives with her boyfriend. She isn’t being welcomed back by everyone.

It is unclear if a nurse held under mandatory quarantine because she had treated Ebola patients in Africa, and was running a fever when she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport, will follow through on threats to sue New Jersey.

The story of Kaci Hickox, the 33 year old Doctors Without Borders nurse, who returned from West Africa and subsequently quarantined in Newark - albeit under what she termed “inhumane conditions” – has stirred up a debate over whether our quarantine policy is overreaching or sensible...