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[quote=Anonymous]I'm really trying not to be alarmist, but quarantining health workers coming from West Africa seems absolutely necessary. It seems like the rate of infection is fairly high among these workers. It's too much just to assume that they will self-isolate the minute they get symptoms. They need to stay home for three weeks. And they CERTAINLY should not be treating patients during that time!

I think the people arguing that this will dissuade health care workers from going to W. Africa have it 100% wrong. We need more people to go over there, and we need to set up a safe and robust infrastructure for them to do so. That includes quarantine when they come back. MSF already tells them not to go back to work for 21 days, so it's not like this is adding any more time off the job for them.

For US health care workers, based on the record so far, it seems like in adequately prepared hospitals the infection rate is extremely low - no infections from any of the top hospitals yet.  We'll see what happens in Bellevue, but for now, seems like those workers don't need to be quarantined. However, it seems also like a no-brainer that they should not be seeing other non-Ebola patients while they are on Ebola duty and for 21 days after. [/quote]

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