Kaci hickox biography

Steven H Miles, M.D.

Kaci Hickox is a nurse who went to Sierra Leone with Doctors without borders to treat the emergency with Ebola. She is professionally brave, articulate and well trained. Sierra Leone, with 5000 cases, is one the epicenters of the Ebola epidemic.[1][2] She was last exposed to patient care on October 21.[3] On Friday October 24, she returned to the United States, entering at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.

There she was met by a disorganized set of officials who tried to determine what to do with her.

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She was repeatedly interviewed. Her temperature on arrival was normal but was repeated several times using a forehead scan thermometer, which will give falsely high readings of persons under stress. Eventually, a temperature was high.[4] She was sent to a University Hospital in Newark that found her to be afebrile and asymptomatic.

Nevertheless, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie intervened and ordered her to be confined, saying she was “obviously sick.