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19 Feb ’12
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ashleigh11 said
I really struggle with how I feel about the whole traveler quarantine issue. This nurse made a choice to go to Africa and help the people who need it most. God bless her. On the other hand, she and other aid workers should expect quarantine when they come home. It's too bad she's the victim of poor planning, hysteria, and airport workers who are the most incompetent of the incompetent.I wish she would be a better example for the rest of the health care industry and use this opportunity as a bully pulpit to bring some sense to all the hysteria. Instead, she acts like an entitled brat. She's probably going to get to end up spending her quarantine period behind bars, peeing in a metal toilet with no lid and having a honey bun and carton of milk for breakfast. (don't ask me how i know this)
Unfortunately, of the 4 cases in the US, Thomas Duncan lied about his exposures and Dr. Spencer gallivanted around town without a care and then lied about it to health authorities http://nypost.com/20.....ls-police/ . Now Kaci has to deal with the fallout. Too bad she's not acting like a professional.
Yeah, she's making it hard to be in her corner. Someone on another forum referred to her as an attention whore, and I think they may have hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately for her, I don't think she has any idea how bad the the public opinion/fallout will be.
15 Feb ’12
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well, I don't think the opinion can get much lower up here
19 Feb ’12
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KVR said
well, I don't think the opinion can get much lower up here
No, what I mean, is that I feel like she's being an attention whore, but she has no idea how severe the fallout will be. I expect death threats, possible unemployment, and open disdain wherever she goes. She may even have to go into hiding.
15 Feb ’12
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I have feeling she will be losing her job, if not her nursing license up here
15 Feb ’12
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FORT KENT, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that talks with nurse Kaci Hickox had broken down and that he is ready to exercise the "full extent" of his authority to force her to adhere to a 21-day quarantine aimed at Ebola health workers.
His remarks came only hours after Hickox defied an existing "voluntary" quarantine order by going for a bike ride with her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur.
The pair donned helmets, stepped off the front porch of his rural house around 9 a.m. and rode off on mountain bikes for almost an hour. They were followed by an unmarked state police car and a band of reporters and photographers.
"It's a beautiful day for a bike ride," Hickox said as she pedaled away, the Bangor Daily News reports. They returned about an hour later.
Without a court order, troopers did not have the authority to restrain her, although they did speak to her briefly upon their return.
LePage, who faces a tough re-election battle on Tuesday, said the state had been willing to allow Hickox to go for walks, runs and bicycle rides while preventing her from going into public places or coming within 3 feet of others, but that discussions failed.
The 33-year-old nurse, who recently treated Ebola patients in West Africa, told reporters late Wednesday that day-long negotiations could not resolve a deadlock over the quarantine issue.
"It is not my intention to put anyone at risk in this community," she said. "We have been negotiating with the state of Maine all day and tried to resolve this amicably, but they will not allow me to leave my house and have any interaction with the public even though I am completely healthy and symptom free."
She told reporters Wednesday night that she had offered a compromise to the state in which she would agree to stay within the Fort Kent area and to travel only by private car, not public transportation. It was not clear from LePage's remarks how far apart the two sides were.
"I'd love to be able to go to the Moose Shack in Fort Kent and get an amazing slice of pizza and not be worried about what people are thinking or if I am going to get arrested by state troopers if I walk out of my property," she said.
The Doctors Without Borders nurse arrived in Maine on Monday after being forcibly held in an isolation tent in New Jersey for three days under that state's strict new rule for health care workers who have recently treated Ebola patients in West Africa.
Hickox was the first person pulled aside at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday under new regulations after her return from Sierra Leone, one of the West African countries hardest hit by a deadly Ebola outbreak.
15 Feb ’12
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this crap doesn't help peoples nerves up here
FORT KENT, Maine — A false story in an online satirical website claiming Kaci Hickox, the nursereleased from isolation after returning last week to the U.S. from West Africa where she treated Ebola patients, is in a local hospital showing symptoms of that disease is creating concern and headaches.
Fort Kent health and law enforcement officials confirmed Monday morning the nurse remains symptom-free and is not in the hospital.
“This is a very disturbing post,” Fort Kent’s police chief Tom Pelletier said Monday morning of the faux article posted on Amplifying Glass. “There are people who don’t understand this is a fake news site.”
The chief said he is getting calls from residents who read the post online.
“When you look at the comments below the story, there are people who say this is satire,” Pelletier said. “But then I get the guy down the road who reads it and does not know the difference and is calling me all worried we have Ebola in town.”
The fake news article claims Hickox was taken to “the hospital after presenting possible symptoms of an Ebola infection. Hickox was taken via ambulance to Kent General hospital after Maine CDC officials responsible for monitoring her condition noted a high fever.”
Calling itself an “entertainment website,” according to its Facebook page, Amplifying Glass and “a provider of eclectic content [with] fun and interesting stories to entertain and educate.”
Officials at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent Monday morning confirmed the story is false and that Hickox has not been brought in for treatment.
“This is a false story,” Joanne Fortin, hospital spokesperson, said. “People do need to be informed and if they need to, call us for clarification. We want to make sure people get good information.”
Last week the hospital logged numerous cancellations from people thanks to fear of possible Ebola contact at the hospital.
“We are tracking those,” Fortin said. “Our sense is things seemed to have settled down but we will see what today brings.”
The Amplifying Glass post first appeared last Wednesday, but many people apparently only saw it over the weekend on social media sites.
“This is absolutely a concern,” Pelletier said. “We are still trying to mitigate people’s concerns and this just perpetuates the fears around town when we have something like this.”
On Monday morning he was working to contact the editors at Amplifying Glass to see if they would remove the post.
“People saw it on Facebook and that made it real,” he said. “It is just wrong.”
15 Feb ’12
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lol, anyone see this
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Looks like she doesn't like Maine any more 
(Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa and publicly fought quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning to the United States last month has decided to move away from her home state, a newspaper in Maine reported.
Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, plan to leave Maine after Nov. 10, or the expiration of the monitoring period for the virus' 21-day incubation, according to the Press Herald newspaper.
Wilbur did not say where the couple planned to move. "We’re going to try to get our lives back on track," he told the newspaper on Friday.
Wilbur and Hickox could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hickox returned to the United States last month after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in a tent outside a hospital in New Jersey for four days despite showing no symptoms.
After criticizing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the forced isolation, she was driven to her boyfriend's home in Fort Kent, in Maine's far north, where Governor Paul LePage ordered her quarantined even though she had tested negative for the virus.
She publicly defied the order, drawing national attention to the battle between states seeking to impose strict restrictions on healthcare workers returning after treating Ebola patients and the civil liberties of those individuals.
Last week, a judge ruled the isolation of Hickox was too stringent but ordered her to continue self-monitoring through Nov. 10.
Medical experts say Ebola can be transmitted only through the bodily fluid of a person who is exhibiting symptoms. The deadliest deadly outbreak of Ebola on record has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Tom Pelletier, Fort Kent’s chief of police, said he had received calls from people who wanted him to arrest Hickox, local media reported.
Wilbur told the Press Herald he has withdrawn from his nursing program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent because university officials were not doing enough to stop threats against him.
Dan Demeritt, spokesman for the University of Maine System, told the Press Herald the school "worked hard to balance the students' needs and the overall concerns of the campus and the community."
Neither Pelletier nor a representative of the University of Maine could immediately be reached.
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