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Under Pressure, Cuomo Says Ebola Quarantines Will Allow Home Isolation
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL BARBAROOCT. 26, 2014
Facing fierce resistance from the White House and medical experts to a strict new mandatory quarantine policy for all medical workers who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday night that people quarantined in New York who do not show symptoms of the disease would be allowed to remain at home and would receive compensation for lost income.
Mr. Cuomo’s decision came after a weekend in which administration officials urged him and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to reconsider the mandatory quarantine they announced on Friday. Aides to President Obama also asked other governors and mayors to follow
a policy based on science,
(bwaa ha ha,, i think they mean politics instead of science)
seeking to stem a steady movement toward more stringent measures in recent days at the state level.
The announcement by Mr. Cuomo seemed intended to draw a sharp contrast — both in tone and in fact — to the policy’s implementation in New Jersey, where a nurse who arrived Friday from Sierra Leone was swiftly quarantined in a tent set up inside a Newark hospital,
with a portable toilet but with no shower.
( at first,, she is inside now and HAS a toilet and shower, but hey
cant let current facts replace outdated propaganda )
It was the second striking shift in Mr. Cuomo’s public posture on the Ebola crisis in 72 hours; after urging calm Thursday night, then joining Mr. Christie to highlight the risks of lax policy on Friday, Mr. Cuomo on Sunday night appeared to try to stake out a middle ground.
He said his decision balanced public safety with the need to avoid deterring medical professionals from volunteering in West Africa. “My number one job is to protect the people of New York, and this does that,” he said.
Those quarantined
at home
will be
visited
twice a day
by local authorities, he said.
Family members
will be allowed to stay,
and friends
may
visit with
the approval of health officials.
( and said officials, family, and approved visitors who may then become
infected can go out for dinner and bowling afterwards. so much for the idea of quarantine or isolation huh ? )
Mayor Bill de Blasio, sitting beside Mr. Cuomo, nodded in approval, and praised the governor for developing a set of more
flexible quarantine
( like a kinda pregnant, or an up down, or a black white, or a clear fuzzy ? )
guidelines that, the mayor said, would show proper respect to those required to abide by them.
Throughout the weekend, the quarantine orders by Mr. Christie, a Republican, and Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, drew withering criticism from many medical experts, who said they would discourage aid workers from volunteering to help eradicate the disease at its source. By midday Sunday, Kaci Hickox, the nurse who became the first person isolated under the new protocols in New Jersey, emerged as the public face of the opposition, calling
the treatment she received “inhumane”
( oh it was humane all right,,, for the American public . what she calls inhumane was not being
able to be a medical anarchist and a typhoid mary . her feelings and comfort being more important
than the health of a nation is her real idea of humane .)
and disputing Mr. Christie’s assertion a day earlier that she was “obviously ill.”
“If he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious,” Ms. Hickox told CNN.
Even some who acknowledged the states’ authority to enact the policy took issue with its implementation in New Jersey.
“We have to think how we treat the people who are doing this noble work,” said Mr. de Blasio, who was not consulted by Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Christie before their Friday announcement, though his administration is overseeing the care of an Ebola patient. At a late afternoon news conference, he said
Ms. Hickox’s treatment was “inappropriate,”
(so quarantine and isolation are inappropriate when dealing with a level 4
infectious disease pathogen ? )
adding: “We owe her better than that.”
( on the contrary, SHE owes US to keep her butt in isolation and quarantine )
Yet amid heightened public anxiety about the government’s handling of the crisis, state authorities have increasingly calculated that the mandatory quarantines will prove prescient. Since the governors’ announcement, two more states, Illinois and Florida, have said they were instituting similar measures.
“I think this is a policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later,” Mr. Christie said in an interview on Fox News Sunday.
The Cuomo and Christie administrations began seriously considering a quarantine on Tuesday, aides said, after federal officials decreed that travelers returning from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa could enter the United States only at five designated airports, including Kennedy and Newark.
Mr. Cuomo had long suspected the virus would arrive in the area, his office said, and privately voiced this belief after the Ebola patient in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, died on Oct. 8, an aide said.
In New Jersey, officials said, Mr. Christie had grown increasingly frustrated by mid-October over the failure of medical professionals to properly isolate themselves on a voluntary basis after returning from West Africa.
Mr. Christie and his team were startled to learn that Dr. Nancy Snyderman, an NBC News correspondent who had traveled to Liberia and whose cameraman had contracted Ebola, left her home in Princeton, N.J., on Oct. 9 to pick up food at a favorite local restaurant.
When a doctor, Craig Spencer, tested positive in New York City on Thursday, the two governors watched as city officials strained to trace his every movement — on the subway, at a bowling alley, at a meatball shop.
What appeared to be a triumph of meticulous forensic work by New York City health officials, in retracing Dr. Spencer’s every step late last week, looked like a potential nightmare to governors who suddenly contemplated having to repeat such an exercise over and over, across their states, should more individuals violate voluntary isolation guidelines.
Over a series of phone conversations starting on Thursday night, shortly after Dr. Spencer was diagnosed, and continuing Friday morning, Mr. Christie and Mr. Cuomo decided to impose the mandatory quarantines, officials said — essentially declaring that neither state trusted those potentially exposed to the deadly disease to wall themselves off from the rest of society.
Aides to Mr. Cuomo said the notion of a mandatory quarantine had always been considered as an option to contain the virus, and that the plan had been quietly vetted by attorneys and some public-health officials.
Neither governor notified the White House.
It did not take long for a test case to walk through the doors of Newark Liberty International Airport. Ms. Hickox, who had treated Ebola patients in West Africa, arrived at around 1 p.m. Friday, and immediately became ensnared in the new regime.
In a way, the NBC episode worked to New Jersey’s benefit. Because of it, Mr. Christie and his aides had already developed a legal framework for mandatory quarantines, which they applied to Ms. Hickox.
The benefits, supporters said, were clear: soothing public concerns with more aggressive monitoring at the front end and sparing officials from exhaustive retracing after the fact.
For Mr. Cuomo, though, embracing the policy proved somewhat complicated. Earlier this month, he cast decisions on screening procedures as “a federal issue.” In a news conference announcing Dr. Spencer’s positive test on Thursday, Mr. Cuomo appeared beside Mr. de Blasio and health officials to urge calm. (The city said Sunday that Dr. Spencer “looks better than he looked yesterday.” He remained in serious but stable condition.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyregion/ebola-quarantine.html?_r=0
fair use
//
looks like cuomo got "educated" by one of his betters eh ?
MOON ,, that spells quarantine ! ,
(just ask obamaobola and the cdc.)
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL BARBAROOCT. 26, 2014
Facing fierce resistance from the White House and medical experts to a strict new mandatory quarantine policy for all medical workers who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday night that people quarantined in New York who do not show symptoms of the disease would be allowed to remain at home and would receive compensation for lost income.
Mr. Cuomo’s decision came after a weekend in which administration officials urged him and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to reconsider the mandatory quarantine they announced on Friday. Aides to President Obama also asked other governors and mayors to follow
a policy based on science,
(bwaa ha ha,, i think they mean politics instead of science)
seeking to stem a steady movement toward more stringent measures in recent days at the state level.
The announcement by Mr. Cuomo seemed intended to draw a sharp contrast — both in tone and in fact — to the policy’s implementation in New Jersey, where a nurse who arrived Friday from Sierra Leone was swiftly quarantined in a tent set up inside a Newark hospital,
with a portable toilet but with no shower.
( at first,, she is inside now and HAS a toilet and shower, but hey
cant let current facts replace outdated propaganda )
It was the second striking shift in Mr. Cuomo’s public posture on the Ebola crisis in 72 hours; after urging calm Thursday night, then joining Mr. Christie to highlight the risks of lax policy on Friday, Mr. Cuomo on Sunday night appeared to try to stake out a middle ground.
He said his decision balanced public safety with the need to avoid deterring medical professionals from volunteering in West Africa. “My number one job is to protect the people of New York, and this does that,” he said.
Those quarantined
at home
will be
visited
twice a day
by local authorities, he said.
Family members
will be allowed to stay,
and friends
may
visit with
the approval of health officials.
( and said officials, family, and approved visitors who may then become
infected can go out for dinner and bowling afterwards. so much for the idea of quarantine or isolation huh ? )
Mayor Bill de Blasio, sitting beside Mr. Cuomo, nodded in approval, and praised the governor for developing a set of more
flexible quarantine
( like a kinda pregnant, or an up down, or a black white, or a clear fuzzy ? )
guidelines that, the mayor said, would show proper respect to those required to abide by them.
Throughout the weekend, the quarantine orders by Mr. Christie, a Republican, and Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, drew withering criticism from many medical experts, who said they would discourage aid workers from volunteering to help eradicate the disease at its source. By midday Sunday, Kaci Hickox, the nurse who became the first person isolated under the new protocols in New Jersey, emerged as the public face of the opposition, calling
the treatment she received “inhumane”
( oh it was humane all right,,, for the American public . what she calls inhumane was not being
able to be a medical anarchist and a typhoid mary . her feelings and comfort being more important
than the health of a nation is her real idea of humane .)
and disputing Mr. Christie’s assertion a day earlier that she was “obviously ill.”
“If he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious,” Ms. Hickox told CNN.
Even some who acknowledged the states’ authority to enact the policy took issue with its implementation in New Jersey.
“We have to think how we treat the people who are doing this noble work,” said Mr. de Blasio, who was not consulted by Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Christie before their Friday announcement, though his administration is overseeing the care of an Ebola patient. At a late afternoon news conference, he said
Ms. Hickox’s treatment was “inappropriate,”
(so quarantine and isolation are inappropriate when dealing with a level 4
infectious disease pathogen ? )
adding: “We owe her better than that.”
( on the contrary, SHE owes US to keep her butt in isolation and quarantine )
Yet amid heightened public anxiety about the government’s handling of the crisis, state authorities have increasingly calculated that the mandatory quarantines will prove prescient. Since the governors’ announcement, two more states, Illinois and Florida, have said they were instituting similar measures.
“I think this is a policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later,” Mr. Christie said in an interview on Fox News Sunday.
The Cuomo and Christie administrations began seriously considering a quarantine on Tuesday, aides said, after federal officials decreed that travelers returning from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa could enter the United States only at five designated airports, including Kennedy and Newark.
Mr. Cuomo had long suspected the virus would arrive in the area, his office said, and privately voiced this belief after the Ebola patient in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, died on Oct. 8, an aide said.
In New Jersey, officials said, Mr. Christie had grown increasingly frustrated by mid-October over the failure of medical professionals to properly isolate themselves on a voluntary basis after returning from West Africa.
Mr. Christie and his team were startled to learn that Dr. Nancy Snyderman, an NBC News correspondent who had traveled to Liberia and whose cameraman had contracted Ebola, left her home in Princeton, N.J., on Oct. 9 to pick up food at a favorite local restaurant.
When a doctor, Craig Spencer, tested positive in New York City on Thursday, the two governors watched as city officials strained to trace his every movement — on the subway, at a bowling alley, at a meatball shop.
What appeared to be a triumph of meticulous forensic work by New York City health officials, in retracing Dr. Spencer’s every step late last week, looked like a potential nightmare to governors who suddenly contemplated having to repeat such an exercise over and over, across their states, should more individuals violate voluntary isolation guidelines.
Over a series of phone conversations starting on Thursday night, shortly after Dr. Spencer was diagnosed, and continuing Friday morning, Mr. Christie and Mr. Cuomo decided to impose the mandatory quarantines, officials said — essentially declaring that neither state trusted those potentially exposed to the deadly disease to wall themselves off from the rest of society.
Aides to Mr. Cuomo said the notion of a mandatory quarantine had always been considered as an option to contain the virus, and that the plan had been quietly vetted by attorneys and some public-health officials.
Neither governor notified the White House.
It did not take long for a test case to walk through the doors of Newark Liberty International Airport. Ms. Hickox, who had treated Ebola patients in West Africa, arrived at around 1 p.m. Friday, and immediately became ensnared in the new regime.
In a way, the NBC episode worked to New Jersey’s benefit. Because of it, Mr. Christie and his aides had already developed a legal framework for mandatory quarantines, which they applied to Ms. Hickox.
The benefits, supporters said, were clear: soothing public concerns with more aggressive monitoring at the front end and sparing officials from exhaustive retracing after the fact.
For Mr. Cuomo, though, embracing the policy proved somewhat complicated. Earlier this month, he cast decisions on screening procedures as “a federal issue.” In a news conference announcing Dr. Spencer’s positive test on Thursday, Mr. Cuomo appeared beside Mr. de Blasio and health officials to urge calm. (The city said Sunday that Dr. Spencer “looks better than he looked yesterday.” He remained in serious but stable condition.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyregion/ebola-quarantine.html?_r=0
fair use
//
looks like cuomo got "educated" by one of his betters eh ?
MOON ,, that spells quarantine ! ,
(just ask obamaobola and the cdc.)
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