Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox quarantined at University Hospital Newark despite testing negative for virus
- 9 years ago
The attorney for a nurse who is being kept under mandatory quarantine for 21 days after working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is planning to file a lawsuit to lift the quarantine order after her client tested negative for the virus.
Under mandatory quarantine policy put it place on Friday, New Jersey and New York are now isolating those arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who are at a high risk of having been infected by Ebola.
Nurse Kaci Hickox, the first person to be quarantined under the new policy, was first held for seven hours at the airport upon arrival in the U.S., had her temperature taken and was tested for Ebola.
Despite testing negative for the virus, Hickox was still transferred to a tent inside a building adjacent to University Hospital in Newark, where she is being held for 21 days.
According to reports, Hickox says she has only been given paper scrubs to wear and only has a hospital bed with no shower facility and access to a “port-a-potty type” restroom.
She also says she lacks any connection with the outside world except for her iPhone.
Hospital spokeswoman Donna Leusner, however, says Hickox has access to reading material and receives take-out food and drink upon request, the Washington Post reported.
CNN quoted Leusner as saying that Hickox “was given a copy of the quarantine order on Friday and is receiving regular updated information."
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Under mandatory quarantine policy put it place on Friday, New Jersey and New York are now isolating those arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who are at a high risk of having been infected by Ebola.
Nurse Kaci Hickox, the first person to be quarantined under the new policy, was first held for seven hours at the airport upon arrival in the U.S., had her temperature taken and was tested for Ebola.
Despite testing negative for the virus, Hickox was still transferred to a tent inside a building adjacent to University Hospital in Newark, where she is being held for 21 days.
According to reports, Hickox says she has only been given paper scrubs to wear and only has a hospital bed with no shower facility and access to a “port-a-potty type” restroom.
She also says she lacks any connection with the outside world except for her iPhone.
Hospital spokeswoman Donna Leusner, however, says Hickox has access to reading material and receives take-out food and drink upon request, the Washington Post reported.
CNN quoted Leusner as saying that Hickox “was given a copy of the quarantine order on Friday and is receiving regular updated information."
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