Nurse Kaci Hickox [worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders] said of her three-hour wait at Newark Airport: “No one seemed to be in charge. No one would tell me what was going on or what would happen to me.” An hour later, with little to eat or drink in the meantime, a forehead-scanning thermometer found her temperature to be 101 degrees but staffers refused to use an oral thermometer.
"I am scared about how health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare that they have been fighting Ebola in West Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine," she said.
She was taken by police escort to an isolation tent outside Newark’s University Hospital, where an oral thermometer found a normal temperature of 98.6 degrees, but a forehead scanner again read 101 degrees — a bad reading she blamed on being flushed from her ordeal. A blood test later tested negative for the virus.
Hickox will remain in a mandatory 21-day quarantine as part of new procedures put in place by the governors of NY and NJ after a doctor tested positive for the virus.
So there is more to be done. This courageous woman did the best anyone can do. Then the bad news, two million people using the subway like sardines] on a daily basis . Imagine??
Just a thought.
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