Now that Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo have instituted mandatory quarantine for all people returning from west Africa who have had contact with Ebola infected patients, the Obama-Jarrett White House is on the attack I really hate to give credit to either Christie or Cuomo, but they did the right thing by instituting the mandatory quarantine. Despite other countries restricting travel from the Ebola infected regions, Obama-Jarrett want to get more Americans infected by importing the disease. According to the New York Times, the Obama-Jarrett White House is trying to pressure Christie and Cuomo to reverse their decisions. So far, they are no budging.
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The Obama administration has been pushing the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said.
But on Sunday both governors, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey, stood by their decision saying that the federal guidelines did not go far enough.
At the same time, the first person to be forced into isolation under the new protocols, Kaci Hickox, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, planned to mount a legal challenge to the quarantine order. Despite having no symptoms, she has been kept under quarantine at a hospital in New Jersey. On Sunday, she spoke to CNN about the way she has been treated, describing it as “inhumane.”