Kaci Hickox is a nurse who flew into New Jersey from Sierra Leone on Saturday, 25 October, 2014 where she was treating Ebola patients, and was immediately put into quarantine as a precautionary measure against the dreaded Ebola virus. She has condemned the exercise performed on her as making her feel like a “criminal”.
Kaci described the experience as “confusing and upsetting” and said she was worried her colleagues would get the same treatment.
She told the The Dallas Morning newspaper, “Will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?”
“I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganisation, fear and, most frightening, quarantine.”
The quarantines were imposed as an automatic sequence that any healthcare personnel returning to US from the Ebola bound countries has to undergo, after New York City Doctor Craig Spencer was diagnosed with the virus on Thursday, 24 October, 2014 after returning to the city from working with Ebola patients in Guinea.
New Jersey and Illinois have also begin the imposing of automatic quarantines on people arriving from Ebola-hit countries.
