Hickox and her boyfriend Ted Wilbur plan to travel after her 21-day monitoring period ends Monday.
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who defied Maine's Ebola quarantine law, is planning to travel with her boyfriend Ted Wilbur as her 21-day monitoring period ends Monday, CNN reported.
Kaci Hickox and Theodore Wilbur outside their home in Fort Kent, Maine.
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Hickox told CNN that the two will travel to southern Maine and "will decide what's next from there." She did not elaborate on her travel plans. Monday marks the end of the 21-day active monitoring period for Hickox according to a court order on Nov. 3.
Hickox, a healthcare worker who returned to the U.S. after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, settled a lawsuit with Maine allowing her to travel freely in public instead of being quarantined at home as per the state's directive.
Hickox moved to Fort Kent in August to be with boyfriend Wilbur, who was a nursing student at the University of Maine. Hickox said that the Dean of Academic Affairs went on national television to say that Wilbur would not be allowed to go to school.
A spokesman for the university told CNN that the school "had put forth a tremendous amount of work to educate people about the threats of Ebola, but we still had concerns about safety and security and we were working with law enforcement and health officials and unfortunately we weren't able to accommodate Ted in a manner he was satisfied with."
Hickox said that she was still "an outsider" in Fort Kent. "A lot of people don't know me and I want to respect their wishes," she said. "I really hope, one day in the near future, I could come back from an Ebola assignment and walk into a grocery store and people would smile and say hi."
Hickox said she fought against New Jersey's and Maine's quarantine policies after seeing the chaos, disorganization and lack of leadership. "The biggest reason I fought was because I felt so much fear and confusion. I imagine what my fellow aid workers would feel if they came back to the same situation."
She said the battle was still not over for other aid workers. "We need to be careful about allowing our rights to be taken away based on hysteria instead of science," she said.
Meanwhile, Mali is preparing to release 108 from quarantine, as it edges nearer to declaring it has contained the Ebola outbreak in the country, Reuters reported.
Last month, Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to report an Ebola case when a 2-year-old girl died of the virus after traveling there from Guinea.
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Kaci Hickox has some rotten nerve making a reference to "hysteria instead of science". She knows damn well that her own industry has been doing everything within it's power and influence to make America the 'hypochondriac' capitol of the world, even going so far as to influence writers for virtually every TV show to include healthscare plots into virtually every segment. It's been going on for years.
ReplyDeleteKaci Hickox knows that her fellow citizens are in fact, hypochondriacs. She must have known ahead of time that she would spread more irrational fear of Ebola by refusing to abide by quarantine measures and by doing everything within her power and influence to see that more healthcare workers returning from West Africa do the same.
Kaci Hickox chose to become an agent of fear. By doing so, she certainly drove scores of her KNOWN HYPOCHONDRIAC fellow citizens right into the commercial arms of her industry in order to have their INCREDIBLY COMMON cold/flu symptoms checked for Ebola. Ch'Ching!
Now, just weeks later, Kaci Hickox find herself in a position to relocate. Not only that, but she has assured us that she will remain an agent of Ebola fear masquerading as an agent of Ebola calm.
There will NEVER be anything remotely resembling an Ebola epidemic in America or ANY developed country. Only the irrational fear. In part, because of the 'no quarantine for me' and 'you may as well expect more like me' Ebola fear monger Kaci Hickox.
CH'CHING!
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