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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Quarantine Policies Make Health Workers Reassess Overseas Work
The Associated Press: Ebola Volunteers Wrestle With Quarantine Mandates
As Ebola-related quarantine policies have arisen around the United States, some health workers are reassessing whether, or how long, they can be among the hundreds that officials say are needed to fight the outbreak. Potential volunteers are anxious about what they might come back to, especially after seeing new rules arise so rapidly that nurse Kaci Hickox was sequestered in a medical tent for days because New Jersey announced new regulations the day she flew back from Sierra Leone. Others are facing family qualms. And as the year winds down, some aid workers wonder whether they'll be able to go home for the holidays. (Peltz, 11/8)
NPR: Maine Nurse To Move Out Of State Following Ebola Quarantine Row
The boyfriend of Kaci Hickox, the nurse who defiantly refused to self-quarantine after she returned from West Africa, says the couple will move out of Maine this week after a state court order restricting their movement expires. Ted Wilbur withdrew from a nursing program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, where the couple lives, and said Friday that he and Hickox were "going to try to get our lives back on track" by leaving the state. (Neuman, 11/9)
The Associated Press: Dallas Reaches End Of Ebola Monitoring Period
Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight. Thirty-eight days after Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in a local hospital, officials expressed relief and resolve that they were prepared if anything similar — with its resulting panic, fear and constant media attention — ever happened again. (Merchant, 11/7)
The New York Times: Dallas Closes The Door On Its Ebola Scare
Dallas ... has moved on. The city, the first to grapple with the virus in the United States and the near panic and quarantines that it set off, reached the end of its Ebola ordeal Friday, as the last person being monitored was cleared by officials. (Fernandez, 11/7)
