Cuomo: Health workers in contact with Ebola patients to be confined to homes
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday (October 26) the state wanted to encourage health workers to go to West Africa to treat Ebola patients, responding to concerns that new state rules on mandatory quarantines would keep doctors and nurses away from the stricken region.
"We are trying to balance aid to West Africa and protection and the public health of New Yorkers," Cuomo said in a joint press conference with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"From an operational, efficiency point of view and from a safety point of view, the preferred option is to ask them to stay home. The health care worker will come to their house twice a day, they can have their family, whoever is normally there, it is not that they are stopping their life. They have their full life. But, if they become symptomatic, you will have limited the number of people they will have been in contact with," he added.
The White House has told states that have
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday (October 26) the state wanted to encourage health workers to go to West Africa to treat Ebola patients, responding to concerns that new state rules on mandatory quarantines would keep doctors and nurses away from the stricken region.
"We are trying to balance aid to West Africa and protection and the public health of New Yorkers," Cuomo said in a joint press conference with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"From an operational, efficiency point of view and from a safety point of view, the preferred option is to ask them to stay home. The health care worker will come to their house twice a day, they can have their family, whoever is normally there, it is not that they are stopping their life. They have their full life. But, if they become symptomatic, you will have limited the number of people they will have been in contact with," he added.
The White House has told states that have