Maine nurse kaci hickox biography
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Nurse Kaci Hickox is not Typhoid Mary
Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University, is the author of "The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States" (Rutgers 2011).
Like other bloggers, as I've watched the story of Kaci Hickox, the Doctors Without Frontiers nurse who was forcibly confined to a tent in a hospital parking garage in New Jersey following a trip to West Africa to treat Ebola patients, I've been struck by the similarity between her situation and that of the infamous "Typhoid" Mary Mallon at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Mallon, Hickox is a fiery redhead with working class roots who defied excessive infringements on personal liberty for the sake of public health. As Hickox told reporters last week, “So many states have started enacting these policies that I think are just completely not evidence-based. They don’t do a good job of balancing the risks and benefits
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Kaci Hickox 'Humbled' by Maine Judge's Ebola Ruling
A judge in Maine ruled Friday that Kaci Hickox, the nurse who treated Ebola patients and defied a state-imposed quarantine, can komma and go as she pleases, as long as she fryst vatten monitored for symptoms and lets health officials know where she’s going.
The same judge had issued a temporary beställning on Thursday night ordering Hickox to stay at least three feet away from other people and to stay away from crowds and public transportation.
But the judge, Charles C. LaVerdiere of state court, lifted those parts of the beställning on Friday. He funnen that authorities in Maine had not proved that restricting Hickox’s movement was necessary to protect the public from infection. He said that his beställning was pending a further hearing.
Hickox said the decision showed amerika was “on the right track” because “now we’re discussing, as a nation, about this disease.”
"I am humbled today by the judge's decision, and even more humbled by the su
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The pre and post quarantine life of Kaci Hickox and Ted Wilbur
By Paul Mills
Kaci Hickox and Ted Wilbur: They have been the protagonists of one of the most riveting public dramas in America last fall. Theirs was rated by Maine’s Associated Press as one of the state’s two top news stories of 2014. Her challenges to government quarantines first in New Jersey and then in Maine won her – along with 21 other Ebola Fighters – a berth among Time’s Persons of the Year.
As with so much of their odyssey, there’s still a fair amount of misconception about them. Google her name, for example, and the first item that still pops up is a reference to a Huffington Post report that they were moving out of state the second week in November. Reports of their departure, to paraphrase Mark Twain, however, are “greatly exaggerated.”
Yes, they did leave Ft. Kent but they continue to reside in and have an affection for Maine.
I recently had an opportunity to sit down with both of them and