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New Jersey Nurse Speaks Out Against Quarantine; Washington Student Dies from School Shooting Injuries; New Jersey, New York Quarantine Guidelines Cause Controversy

Aired October 27, 2014 - 06:00   ET

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Quarantine controversy. Several states taking heat for a new policy to quarantine all health care workers returning from West Africa. A quarantined nurse in New Jersey plans to file a lawsuit challenging her confinement. Are these new efforts just going too far?

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Ebola gets political. The White House voicing concerns about the new state quarantine guidelines. Scientists and politicians at odds over how to handle medical staff returning from West Africa. Are these quarantines even enforceable and will other states follow suit?

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Tragic turn, another student succumbs to injuries from Friday's shooting in Washington state. Shocking new details emerging now about what happened inside that school cafeteria. Students ducking for cover as a teacher risks her life to stop the carnage.

CUOMO: Your NEW DAY starts right now.

ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan and Michaela Pereira.

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CUOMO: Good morning. Welcome to NEW DAY. It is Monday, October 27, 6 in the east. Chris Cuomo here, joined by Alisyn Camerota.

CAMEROTA: Happy Monday.

CUOMO: Good to see you. Good to see you.

Up first, what to do about healthcare workers returning from Ebola- stricken West Africa? New York and New Jersey now say quarantine them, in a nod to growing fears about the virus spreading. But experts in the White House say they're going too far. This morning, New York state modifying its announced mandatory 21-day hospital stay. The new rule: well, you can do that quarantine at home.

CAMEROTA: Well, that would be better for some people. New Jersey is also clarifying its strict quarantine process, which is under fire from a nurse, Kaci Hickox, who has been kept in isolation since arriving back from Sierra Leone. Hickox says she's not sick, she has no signs of Ebola, and wants out, telling CNN her basic human rights are being violated.

So we are covering this from all angles, and we begin with CNN's Elizabeth Cohen. Great to see you.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Great to see you, Alisyn. So one side of this controversy says the quarantine is to protect the public health. But another side says that these quarantines will lead to more cases of Ebola.

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COHEN (voice-over): This morning the governors of New York and New Jersey offering clarification on their days' old policy of Ebola quarantine. Under the guidelines, healthcare workers returning from treating Ebola people in West Africa will remain quarantined for a mandatory 21 days. Residents of the states can stay inside their homes.

In addition, those traveling from Ebola hot zones who haven't come into contact with Ebola patients will be actively monitored.

For nurse Kaci Hickox, isolated for three days by the state of New Jersey, the new policy has been a nightmare. I spoke with Kaci on the phone.

KACI HICKOX, NURSE: I don't think most people understand what it's like to be alone in a tent and to know that there's nothing wrong with you and that decisions are being made that don't make sense.

COHEN: Hickox, a resident of Maine, was quarantined inside this tent after she arrived at Newark Liberty National International Airport from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. She currently shows no symptoms and tested negative for Ebola twice.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: My first and foremost obligation is to protect the public health and safety of the people of New Jersey.

BILL DE BLASIO, MAYOR, NEW YORK CITY: Good afternoon, everyone.

COHEN: The mayor of New York City blasted the decision, which some say deters healthcare workers from taking part in the fight to contain Ebola abroad.

DE BLASIO: This hero coming back from the front, having done the right thing, was treated with disrespect.

COHEN: Hickox's lawyers are fighting for her immediate release.

NORMAN SIEGEL, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: We believe that that policy infringes on the constitutional liberty interests.

COHEN: Currently, officials are imposing these mandatory Ebola quarantine policies in three states: New York, New Jersey and Illinois. The policy was abruptly implemented Friday, just one day after New York doctor Craig Spencer, who treated Ebola patients in Guinea, was diagnosed with Ebola.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some people who say we are being too cautious. I'll take that criticism.

COHEN: A federal official says the CDC was surprised by the mandate but acknowledges that state and local officials have the prerogative to set tighter policies.

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COHEN (on camera): Now, critics say that these quarantines are too broad. They're unclear, and some say they're unnecessary, because if you're not sick, you can't spread the disease.

CAMEROTA: It's all so confusing. We're going to get into it with all sorts of experts this morning, because obviously, there are mixed messages.

Elizabeth Cohen, great to see you. Thanks.

CUOMO: One very strong message is coming out of the White House. Officials there are urging states to enact Ebola quarantine policies based on science, not fear. OK. And they're now expressing concerns medical workers may be deterred from going to Ebola hot zones to help if they know they're going to face three weeks of confinement when they get back. So what do we do about them?

White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski joins us with more.

Not an easy one here. The science and the fear very much at odds.

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, two very strong sides. I mean, we see the states wanting to have mandatory quarantines for these returning healthcare workers instead of more voluntary monitoring. And in most cases, that could be done at home. So it's not really clear how that would deter people from going to help out in the Ebola-affected region. But that's how the White House has been portraying its own fears surrounding this.

Now we see five states -- New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida and now Virginia -- going gdgogoingoing above and beyond what the CDC is doing. And some of those governors, yes, including Democrats, are staunchly defending their actions. New York's Governor Cuomo is saying that the White House has not pressured him to change course.

The White House, though, has made its displeasure very clear, saying that it's letting governors know that it has concerns about the unintended consequences of policies that are, quote, "not grounded in science."

But the White House says it's now going to work on coming up with its own new guidelines. In fact, that was the subject of a big meeting here at the White House yesterday, the president meeting with his public health and national security teams. So clearly, the White House also feels that those new restrictions that go into effect today, requiring workers to self-monitor for 21 days might not be enough.

And this is something we've seen several times now: the White House changing things up when there's been a public outcry. We saw it with "Why don't you appoint an Ebola czar? Why don't you have more travel restrictions?" And now, "Why don't you do something more about returning healthcare workers" -- Chris.

CUOMO: Michelle Kosinski, you put your finger right on the main concern. It's not the science, it's the message. Consistency breeds confidence. And when you don't have it, you get fear. And that's what we're dealing with right now. Thank you very much for the reporting.

Now, one of the people really drawing attention to this is that nurse under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey. She returned from West Africa, fighting the good fight there, trying to help people. And now, Kaci Hickox calls her 21-day quarantine inhumane and a knee-jerk reaction by politicians. So she's threatening legal action and has choice words for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Talking to our Candy Crowley by phone, she says she was initially in shock. But now she's just angry.

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HICKOX: Once I got to the hospital, they, of course, tested by blood, confirmed that it was negative. And I know that there have been reports of me having a fever in the airport, but I truly believe that it's an instrument error. They were using the forehead scanner, and I was obviously distressed and a bit upset. And so my cheeks were flushed, and I think there has been some evidence that that machine is not very accurate in these kind of situations. So when I arrived in the ambulation unit, they took my temperature orally, and it was completely normal.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT/ANCHOR: Does it remain completely normal?

HICKOX: Yes, it has also been completely normal. I heard from my mother last night, who called me, concerned, and said, "Governor Christie just said in an interview that you were, quote/unquote, 'obviously ill,'" and this is so frustrating to me.

First of all, I don't think he's a doctor, and secondly, he's never laid eyes on my me. And thirdly, I have been asymptomatic since I've been here. I feel physically completely strong and emotionally completely exhausted.

I have not been communicated a clear plan. My quarantine order was written by the New Jersey health commissioner. And even to this day no one has told me what it means or what's the plan. No one has told me how long it will last. I don't know if I'm going to be retested and, if so, why I would be retested. I'm completely asymptomatic, and the test is not even accurate if you don't have symptoms. No one has communicated with me. You have, you know, put me in an isolation unit without communicating

medically or public health, you know, scientifically logical chain of events that need to happen next. And this to me is just completely unacceptable.

CROWLEY: Do you understand the need of governors, be they from New Jersey or New York or Illinois, to say, "We can't take this risk that somebody is out there with a fever or will spike a fever eight or nine days after they arrive. We need to make sure that they're in isolation until we know they are past the danger zone." Do you understand that psyche?

HICKOX: I completely don't understand it. I really -- it is completely not understandable to me. It is not based on any clear public health evidence. And it's not the recommendation of public health and medical experts at this point.

You know, I think we have to be very careful about letting politicians make medical and public health decisions, and all of the evidence about Ebola shows that, if you are not symptomatic, you are not infectious.

I understand that people feel like they have a risk. And I think we can have a conversation about what further measures might look like. But I think this is an extreme that the really unacceptable. And I feel like my basic human rights have been violated.

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CAMEROTA: All right. Here to discuss the medical and legal implications now of being quarantined, let's bring in Dr. Amesh Adalja. He's a representative for the Infectious Disease Society of America; and Danny Cevallos, CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. Gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us.

Dr. Adalja, let me start with you. What do you think of these mandatory quarantine for people returning from West Africa?

DR. AMESH ADALJA, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: I am not in favor of them. When the government uses force to restrict individual rights like is happening with these quarantines, the burden of proof is on them to prove that these individuals are a threat to others. And what we know about Ebola is that they clearly aren't, because Ebola is not contagious during its -- during its incubation period. And these individuals' liberties being restricted. And multiple medical societies have come out against this.

And these -- these measures won't add to anything to what's already being done, the active monitoring that's being done. These patients are -- these individuals are already being monitored by public health officials. This is really being driven by politics and not by science.

CAMEROTA: But Dr. Adalja, here's the problem. It's that some people are not self-quarantining, even when they are supposed to. For instance, Dr. Craig Spencer, who as we know was bowling, was riding around on the New York subway. And then it turns out that he came down with Ebola. And that makes everyone feel nervous and feel as though they are somehow in jeopardy when they're on public transportation.

Let me play for you what Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, said about why quarantines are required.

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CHRISTIE: The fact of the matter is that we -- I don't believe, when you're dealing with something as serious as this, that we can count on a voluntary system. This is government's job. If anything else, the government's job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens. And so we've taken this action and I absolutely have no second thoughts about it.

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CAMEROTA: Dr. Adalja, he's basically saying self-quarantine can't be trusted, and we've seen examples of that.

ADALJA: Well, it's not just self-quarantine. These people are getting what's called active monitoring where they are in constant contact with members of the public health community, where they are tracked; they're known and they're given instructions on what to do.

The other thing is that even Mr. -- Dr. Spencer's movements around the city, during that time, he wasn't contagious. He wasn't some Typhoid Mary going around the city. He was not posing a risk to anybody else. There's really a threat misperception that's going on right now amongst the public.

CAMEROTA: OK. Dan, I want to ask you about the legality of all of this. Legally, can the state force somebody to stay in quarantine for 21 days?

DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Yes. For over 100 years the Supreme Court and other courts have upheld the state's police power to infringe on the rights of citizens to protect the public's health, welfare and other things.

It's the exact same logic that has gotten us things like bicycle helmet laws. And even in its extreme in the latter -- in the last century, cases where they would sterilize people based on their mental disabilities to avoid -- to avoid more cases like that.

So be not mistaken, the police power to infringe on individual liberties in times of public health crisis is tremendous. It's not completely without restraint, though, of course. Of course, if it's unreasonable, if it goes too far, if it's not tailored to the situation, then it may be unconstitutional.

But I think it's because of cases over the last 20 years that have recognized individual liberties in healthcare like the right to choose or, for example, the right to refuse end-of-life care. Well, those have certainly developed legally. However, those cases are markedly different from the case where

someone else may be affected by the decisions and we have seen in cases like tuberculosis, very recently, the state, like Arizona, will take someone with a virulent form of tuberculosis and stick them in Maricopa County Jail.

So it's not without precedent. It happens. And the state's police power, as stamped with approval by the Supreme Court, seems to allow it.

CAMEROTA: Well, Dr. Adalja, Kaci Hickox, the nurse, who is now in an isolation tent in New Jersey, says it is unreasonable. She says she doesn't have a fever. She's not sick. For many hours, she was sort of interrogated like a criminal, she says. She was denied any possibility of leaving.

And here's what the governor's office in New Jersey now says about quarantine. Let me read it to you.

It says, "The protocol is clear, that a New Jersey resident with no symptoms but who has come into contact with someone with Ebola, such as a healthcare provider, would be subject to a mandatory quarantine order and quarantined at home. Non-residents would be transported to their homes if feasible and, if not, quarantined in New Jersey."

This woman, Kaci Hickox, is not from New Jersey. Why isn't she put in an ambulance today and taken to, I believe her home state is Maine? Why isn't she taken home to be quarantined at home, Dr. Adalja?

ADALJA: That's a question for Governor Christie. She doesn't pose any risk to anybody. She should be released from quarantine and undergo this active surveillance that we're doing with these healthcare workers that are returning. She's right. And I feel -- I feel horrible that she's stuck there in this tent.

CAMEROTA: Doctor, Danny Cevallos, thanks so much for all the information. We will be exploring it all morning and see if anything develops over these next three hours. We appreciate seeing you guys.

Let go back to Chris.

CUOMO: All right. Alisyn, we have the debate. But then let's take a step back, because for all the fear, the debate and the need for solution we don't want to forget that at the center of it are people fighting the good fight who are now fighting for their own lives against one of the worst viruses we know.

Remember, Craig Spencer here in New York, one of the people who kind of set off this debate now, he's still in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. Doctors say Spencer remains in serious but stable condition. And they do think he's starting to look better. They say he is experiencing the expected symptoms of the virus.

Spencer has received a plasma transfusion from Nancy Writebol. You remember her. She contracted it if West Africa and survived. So he's not out of the woods yet, but at least we're seeing progress. And we do have to remember this man was doing the Lord's work down there in West Africa. And we hope he makes it through.

PEREIRA: That's the concern. They want to make sure that people aren't afraid now to go, because they won't be able come back or won't be in quarantine. We'll obviously discuss more of this coming up.

But I want to give you your headlines. Good morning to all of you at home. We begin with breaking news.

Prosecutors want the death penalty for the captain of a South Korean ferry -- you'll recall -- that capsized back in April, killing around 300 people, many of those people that died high-school students. Lee Joon-seok is facing homicide charges now for apparently abandoning the ship when it began to go down. Prosecutors want life sentences for three other crew members for their roles in that disaster.

Officials say they have discovered a video recorded by the man who shot and killed a soldier in Ottawa last week. They say Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was driven by political and ideological motives. They say they will not release the footage. Apparently, it was made shortly before he gunned down that Canadian soldier and stormed parliament. The 32-year-old was shot dead by sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers.

In Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff celebrating re-election. She did have to sweat it out for a bit. She won an incredibly tight race, coming away with just over 51 percent of the vote after a bitter campaign, defeating opposition candidate Aecio Neves in a runoff. This is the tightest race Brazil has seen since returned to democracy some three decades ago.

I might read this one a little bit slowly just because I can. The San Francisco Giants just one win, a mere win away from their third World Series title in five years. The Giants ace Madison Bumgarner with another dazzling performance in game five, throwing a complete game shutout to beat the Royals five-zip. That puts the Giants up three games to two. They can win the title in game six.

When is that game, Chris? Is that Tuesday night in Kansas City?

CUOMO: I don't know, I'm not paying attention.

PEREIRA: You know when that's happening? Alisyn, you'll confirm that for me.

CAMEROTA: Yes, I do know.

PEREIRA: More on the World Series coming up in our "Bleacher Report."

CUOMO: I hope it's a good game.

PEREIRA: Yes. I think it has been tremendous. Super fun. All right, let's get to meteorologist Indra Petersen, keeping track of all the latest forecasts for us. Good morning.

INDRA PETERSON, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Michaela. I just have to ask: Would it be Dodgers, though, if you had a choice? Or would you be sticking with Giants?

PEREIRA: I'm not going to answer that, because there's a lot of Dodgers fans watching.

PETERSON: Right here.

PEREIRA: You know that those two teams.

PETERSON: That's what we're talking about. All right. Let's talk about what's going on in weather wise. We're definitely looking at high pressure on the East Coast. That will start to change. We're actually watching a frontal boundary starting to make its way through the Midwest today. That tail end of it actually going all the way back even in through Texas.

Light showers will come along with it, meaning by Wednesday, we will start to see some showers, even into the Northeast. Not a lot, though, only about an inch or so, the heavier amounts farther down to the south, probably around Arkansas today.

But either way, you're going to notice a big change, more like in the temperatures. Right now, look at these temperatures: well above normal in the Midwest. As that system goes through, look at them drop back down.

Meanwhile, ahead of the cold front, look at the Northeast. Temperatures climbing. It is fall, and yay, we are still talking about 70s out towards New York City even by tomorrow.

Let's take it day-by-day. We're talking about temperatures above normal not like just a little bit here. Almost 20 degrees above formal. Look at Chicago: 77 degrees today. It doesn't even feel right. Of course, it doesn't last long either, though. Look at them drop as early as tomorrow; 20 degrees cooler down to just the 50s. And of course, all that making its way to northeast by Wednesday. We get rain and milder temperatures.

I don't care. We're talking about 70s by tomorrow. We're doing good.

PEREIRA: We'll take it.

CAMEROTA: Sounds good. Thank you.

All right. Overnight, a second teenager has died in the Marysville, Washington, state school shooting. We will talk to a psychologist about how a popular student could take such a violent turn and open fire on his classmates.

CUOMO: All right. And let's just deal with what's obvious. You know people are talking about Ebola. And they are worried. But does that mean a quarantine is the right thing to do to healthcare workers returning from West Africa? Too far or too bad for anyone who has been exposed potentially? Tweet us with your ideas. Experts are going to give you the lowdown coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CUOMO: ... you are looking at now, she died on the scene. Three other victims are still fighting for their lives right now.

Hundreds came together Sunday night in the school gym, shedding tears and offering comfort to one another, very needed in a situation like this.

But more details are now emerging about the shooter's possible motive. We always want to know why this happened, and there's also information about a teacher who helped stop the bloodshed. Witnesses say she confronted the shooter and grabbed his arm moments before the teenager was able to take his own life. So she at least tried.

I want to bring in Dr. Jodi Gold. She's director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She's also the author of something that's very relevant for this discussion today. "Screen-Smart Parenting." That's how to find balance and benefit in your child's use of social media apps and digital devices.

And oh, boy, Doc, is this an area that we parents don't know a damn thing about? We're lost with social media. The kids are two steps ahead. And we either don't have the time, the inclination or maybe the fear to figure out what's going on. Very key to this story.

We'll take a step back. We see too many of these. There seems to be a profile. This kid was isolated. They were upset. People knew it, but they didn't know what to do. He was mentally ill but he wasn't being treated or he wasn't taken his meds and that he had access to a weapon that he shouldn't have. And then this happened. This is not this kid. How so?

DR. JODI GOLD, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: I don't think of this as being a typical school shooting. To me this seems like a targeted shooting that happened to happen at a school.

CUOMO: That's a distinction with a difference?

GOLD: Yes. Because we've seen a profile of school shootings. The typical school shooter is really angry and alienated and is making a statement against mainstream culture, against institutions.

This child was very successful in high school. He was a football player and a homecoming prince. He wasn't making a statement against the institution of the school. He was angry and pissed off at his friends.

CUOMO: So -- so you think that's why he did it?

GOLD: I think it sounds like he was alienated and angry and acted impulsively.

CUOMO: But that's not normal.

GOLD: No.

CUOMO: And he was above normal when you look at him, right? Public esteem, how he was perceived, how he perceives himself, supposedly, was very strong. Objectively and subjectively doing well, had community around him.

GOLD: Yes.

CUOMO: People who loved him.

GOLD: Yes.

CUOMO: So how do you go from I'm upset about a girl. Theoretically, it's one theory that's out there about this. I'm mad at my friends, the guys who I thought I loved the most, hurt me the most. To this?

GOLD: Yes. It's hard to wrap your mind around it. But I think it says a lot about teenagers and impulsive behaviors. And I think he was really -- it sounds like he was really betrayed and he couldn't modulate his emotions. And obviously, I think people reached out to him. He had a really supportive network. I think we can't say anything about that. But obviously, he was angry, and he was rageful. And he is only 14 or 15 years old, and he had access to a gun.

CUOMO: Now, when the uninitiated here, only 14, 15, they say, "But he's 14, 15. This is not a way for a 14 and 15-year-old to think to behave." That's because we don't understand the development of the mind as well as we should. It's not an excuse. You're saying it's science. Where is the head on a kid that age?

GOLD: Let's be clear about that. He was 14 or 15 not 25 years old. His brain's not as well developed. His ability to have executive planning, to think ahead, to be thoughtful, to be able to modulate his emotions, is not the same as an adult. It's certainly not an excuse for this behavior, but I think it's a window into sort of understanding.

CUOMO: And where we get that he was troubled is that it takes it into an area of your particular expertise, the social media. When you go back and look, it was more than just "It won't last. It will never last." That's supposedly the last tweet from the shooter. And that's kind of vague. Who even knows what it means?

But you say if you had been on the social media of this kid and tracking it, you would have seen things. How so?

GOLD: I think you would have seen things, but I want to be clear here. I don't think there's anyone to blame.

CUOMO: Right.

GOLD: I don't think that there was a lot of warning signs. Usually in school shootings, we can go back. We can see the manifestos. We can see a window into their souls through their Twitter or their Facebook. I wouldn't say that's completely true here.

I think what we saw is that a week or so prior to the event, his behavior changed a little bit. And that was reflected in his Twitter feeds. But I'm not sure that what he posted was anything that would have caused a huge alarm. It wasn't really a call to arms. It sounded like he was hurt and betrayed and angry.

CUOMO: So what are you supposed to do? I mean, the one thing we try to take solace is we try to respect the victims. We try to help the communities heal. And we try to figure out how to do better. What do we take from this?

GOLD; This is a really hard one, because this kid did -- wasn't mentally ill, wasn't violent, had a supportive family. He did reach out to Twitter, but it sounds like his friends reached out to him, as well.

I think we have to take from this is that, you know, kids take betrayal and emotion in relationships very seriously, and as parents and educators, we have to not minimize it. And when you see any change of behavior, when you know your child, especially a boy, has been hurt or betrayed in a relationship, you have to take it seriously. You can look at the social media. A lot of people don't agree with me.

But I think that if your child is hurting and not talking to you, you should check out his social media profile. I don't think you'd know that he was going to shoot anybody, but you would certainly know that he was hurting and maybe be able to help.

CUOMO: And you know who may have known better? His friends. Again, there's no -- there's nothing productive about blaming. That's never the point. The point is the kids know better these days than the parents. And that's almost the basis for why parents back off. They're like, I don't know. The kids will know.

I think that the idea of community, which is coming up very strong out in Washington right now to help the people who need it most, I think it's maybe the clue going forward, as well. We have to pay more attention to each other, and maybe we'll pick up on things that aren't that obvious.

GOLD: Yes, I think the teenagers should really listen to what they see online. And you should post online who you really are. Don't pretend to be somebody else. And if you're hurting and you need help and you post it on Twitter and Facebook, I hope that your friends and your families will take it seriously.

CUOMO: One of the hardest things to do in life is be honest about yourself.

GOLD: It's true.

CUOMO: Dr. Jodi Gold, thank you very much for the perspective on this. It's a horrible experience to have to listen -- to learn from.

GOLD: Yes. Thank you so much for having me.

CUOMO: All right -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Chris. Back to another top story. New York eases its mandatory Ebola quarantine policy, saying healthcare workers can now quarantine at home. But in New Jersey, a quarantine nurse is still being kept in an isolation tent.