The state’s new Ebola policy came as a Stanford doctor was quarantined, and President Obama took a veiled shot at governors for “hiding under the covers.”
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Dr. Colin Bucks, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University is the first person in the state's to be quarantined for possible Ebola exposure. Bucks returned from Liberia last week, where he had worked as a volunteer with the International Medical Corps.
Bucks has not shown any symptoms of Ebola, but will be isolated for 21 days as part of a new policy rolled out Wednesday by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
In addition to Bucks, officials in Orange County are monitoring two people who recently returned from West Africa, Orange County Public Health spokeswoman Nicole Stanfield told BuzzFeed News Wednesday. Those two people are not quarantined, but are reporting their temperature twice daily.
Carlos Villatoro, a CDPH spokesman, told BuzzFeed News Wednesday that as of Oct. 24 his department knew of 19 people in California who had recently traveled to an Ebola-afflicted country.
California follows states including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, and others in rolling out Ebola monitoring for incoming travelers from West Africa. The level of monitoring varies by state, though New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received intense criticism over the weekend after the state's new policies resulted in the involuntary detention of nurse Kaci Hickox, who had tested negative for Ebola. New York also eased it's own stringent quarantine rules in the face of White House pressure.
Obama, who has criticized states' involuntary quarantines for days, made his most pointed statements yet Wednesday when he accused political leaders of "running in the opposite direction and hiding under the covers."
Gov. Christie quickly fired back, saying his state's mandatory quarantine makes sense:
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