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Containment. The Obama administration has a message to Americans freaking out about Ebola: Stop… “We respect your concern. We understand your concern. But the evidence tells us that that is not going...
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Video: Jay Carney breaks with White House over Ebola travel restrictions
"I think that would demonstrate a level of seriousness in response to this that is merited at this point." I knew Democrats would start flipping on travel restrictions soon but I didn’t expect O’s own...
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Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Damage control. Any guesses which topic will dominate today’s Sunday yakfests? Hint: It’s not “Romney 2016.” Although it should be. Nothing but Ebola, Ebola, Ebola this morning. Interestingly, it’s Dr....
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Quarantine. Every airline passenger who arrives in the United States from one of the three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola will be monitored by state and local health authorities for 21 days,...
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Nurse, doctor’s fiancee released from hospital quarantines
Child isolated in NYC after travel from Guinea. This may moot the lawsuit Kaci Hickox planned to file against New Jersey, but it won’t end the debate over the proper way to deal with health-care...
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The honor system isn’t going to stop Ebola
You're battling against reality There has been a flood of push back and grumbling about the already lessened Ebola quarantines in New York and New Jersey, as well as against any of us who dared to...
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New CDC guidelines: If you jabbed yourself with a needle while treating an...
Terrific. This is the feds’ supposedly tough new policy, designed to strike a balance between the mandatory three-week quarantine of at-risk health-care workers back from the hot zone a la New York and...
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Military testing White House’s resistance to Ebola quarantine
Science! When the White House is not admonishing its political opponents for failing to observe what they subjectively determine to be proper deference to Science when it comes to containing Ebola, the...
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Isolation. I am a nurse who has just returned to the U.S. after working with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone – an Ebola-affected country. I have been quarantined in New Jersey. This is not a...
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Australia imposes travel ban on Ebola-impacted countries
Nurse declared Ebola-free. While the debate continues in the US as to how best to protect Americans from a potential spread of Ebola, Australia has made a decision on a comprehensive policy. They will...
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Open thread: Obama to deliver statement on Ebola at 2:55 ET
Guidelines. The word came down a little after 2 p.m. ET that he was going to speak, but no one’s quite sure why. Is he about to prove Bob Goodlatte right by announcing a new policy that certain select...
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White House’s defense of quarantining soldiers but not nurses offends common...
Haircuts. The White House has declared a quiet war on the governors of New York and New Jersey for ignoring what administration officials snidely insist is their deference to “science” embodied in...
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Maine to “enforce” nurse’s “voluntary” quarantine
Exactly. Wait. I'm sorry... what? After setting what may have been a land speed record in retaining an attorney and threatening to sue everyone in New Jersey for violating her civil rights, formerly...
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CBS poll: 80% back quarantines for Ebola; Update: Hagel approves quarantines...
"Not consensus, but confusion." Yesterday, Barack Obama scolded governors who imposed quarantines on people who recently traveled from western Africa. He may want to reconsider his lecture. According...
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Video: Doctor quarantined in California after return from Liberia
"Even small clusters of cases could overwhelm parts of the system." California was not one of the states that initially imposed a quarantine rule on people traveling from Ebola-impacted countries,...
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Video: Maine judge orders Hickox to restrict her movements; Update: Judge...
White House: We, um, don't approve of Hickox's actions. The bicycle rides may be over, at least for the time being, for nurse Kaci Hickox. After asking her to stay in quarantine at her home, Hickox...
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Rights. A Maine judge on Friday ruled in favor of a nurse who defied a quarantine in a tense standoff with state authorities, saying local health officials failed to prove the need for a stricter order...
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Canada enacts travel ban from Ebola-impacted countries
No ban on US ... yet. The US refuses to stop travel from western African nations for non-US residents, but our neighbors to the north have decided to get ahead of the curve. Late yesterday, Canada...
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Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Almost. On any other Sunday, this morning would be devoted to navel-gazing about quarantine protocols and the defiance of Kaci Hickox, or as one conservative Twitter pal calls her, “Ebola Fluke.” With...
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Nancy Snyderman is “very sorry” for breaking Ebola quarantine
The hardest word NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman has a message for everyone. She’s very sorry. Back in October, Snyderman returned with her film crew from Liberia where a member of her...
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The Ebola nurse is back and she’s suing Chris Christie
You probably thought that we’d heard the last of Kaci Hickox some time ago. As you may recall, she’s the nurse who returned to the United States from treating Ebola patients in Africa and was held in...
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