Nurse quarantined over Ebola fears sues Gov. Chris Christie, The bloom affliction artisan who acutely criticized getting abandoned at a New Jersey hospital endure year because she had acquaintance with Ebola patients in West Africa said in a accusation filed Thursday that Gov. Chris Christie and the accompaniment bloom administration illegally captivated her adjoin her will.
Attorneys for Kaci Hickox filed the federal civilian rights accusation in Newark on Thursday. The clothing aswell names above accompaniment Bloom Commissioner Mary O'Dowd and added bloom administration employees. Hickox is gluttonous at atomic $250,000 in compensatory and castigating damages.
Hickox, 34, is a assistant who was alive with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone during endure year's baleful Ebola outbreak. She was chock-full if she accustomed at Newark Alternative International airport and questioned over several hours afore getting beatific to break in apprehension in a covering alfresco of a hospital in Newark, admitting accepting no affection of the disease.
"My liberty, my interests and appropriately my civilian rights were abandoned because some aggressive governors saw an befalling to use an age-old political tactic: fear," Hickox said in a statement.
A agent for Christie didn't anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment. O'Dowd said she hadn't accustomed the accusation and referred animadversion to the accompaniment bloom department, which said it does not animadversion on awaiting litigation.
While Hickox was quarantined, Christie said he sympathized for her but said he has to do what he can to ensure accessible bloom safety.
She was the aboriginal getting affected into New Jersey's binding apprehension for bloom workers who came into acquaintance with Ebola patients, afterwards Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appear a stronger apprehension action than federal standards, Their plan came beneath blaze from the White House and medical groups.
Hickox, who was a Maine citizen at the time and now lives in Oregon, said she was chock-full at Newark Alternative International airport and was questioned over several hours afterwards affecting down. She said abundant humans questioned her, including "a man who batten to Hickox aggressively as if she were a bent and was cutting a weapon belt."
While she didn't accept a agitation if her temperature was aboriginal taken, she said she was told by a medical staffer application a banausic scanner that she did accept a fever. Hickox said that was due to her getting ablaze from frustration, but that led to her getting taken to the hospital — escorted by several badge cars with lights and sirens blaring.
Her clothing lays out a alternation of temperature readings that were animated if arrested with a banausic thermometer, but accustomed if taken orally. A account from O'Dowd that night said Hickox was getting abandoned because she had developed a fever. The next day, Christie declared her as "obviously ill." She said her mom after alleged her, abashed that she ability be ailing because of Christie's comment.
Hickox activated abrogating for Ebola in two tests, but was kept abandoned for added than two days. She was again apprenticed to Maine, area she about anon absitively adjoin afterward the state's autonomous quarantine. A adjudicator after gave her the OK to go wherever she admiring as connected as she connected circadian ecology of her health.
Hickox, 34, is a assistant who was alive with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone during endure year's baleful Ebola outbreak. She was chock-full if she accustomed at Newark Alternative International airport and questioned over several hours afore getting beatific to break in apprehension in a covering alfresco of a hospital in Newark, admitting accepting no affection of the disease.
"My liberty, my interests and appropriately my civilian rights were abandoned because some aggressive governors saw an befalling to use an age-old political tactic: fear," Hickox said in a statement.
A agent for Christie didn't anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment. O'Dowd said she hadn't accustomed the accusation and referred animadversion to the accompaniment bloom department, which said it does not animadversion on awaiting litigation.
While Hickox was quarantined, Christie said he sympathized for her but said he has to do what he can to ensure accessible bloom safety.
She was the aboriginal getting affected into New Jersey's binding apprehension for bloom workers who came into acquaintance with Ebola patients, afterwards Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appear a stronger apprehension action than federal standards, Their plan came beneath blaze from the White House and medical groups.
Hickox, who was a Maine citizen at the time and now lives in Oregon, said she was chock-full at Newark Alternative International airport and was questioned over several hours afterwards affecting down. She said abundant humans questioned her, including "a man who batten to Hickox aggressively as if she were a bent and was cutting a weapon belt."
While she didn't accept a agitation if her temperature was aboriginal taken, she said she was told by a medical staffer application a banausic scanner that she did accept a fever. Hickox said that was due to her getting ablaze from frustration, but that led to her getting taken to the hospital — escorted by several badge cars with lights and sirens blaring.
Her clothing lays out a alternation of temperature readings that were animated if arrested with a banausic thermometer, but accustomed if taken orally. A account from O'Dowd that night said Hickox was getting abandoned because she had developed a fever. The next day, Christie declared her as "obviously ill." She said her mom after alleged her, abashed that she ability be ailing because of Christie's comment.
Hickox activated abrogating for Ebola in two tests, but was kept abandoned for added than two days. She was again apprenticed to Maine, area she about anon absitively adjoin afterward the state's autonomous quarantine. A adjudicator after gave her the OK to go wherever she admiring as connected as she connected circadian ecology of her health.
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