President Donald Trump’s administration, which includes many vocal supporters of “medical freedom,” has introduced surprisingly harsh restrictions in response to new virus outbreaks.
“I am utterly stunned,” Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health, told The New York Times about the aggressive quarantine approach taken by the administration to combat outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus.
More than a dozen Americans who were on board the Dutch vessel MV Hondius are now being held at Nebraska’s only federally funded quarantine center after three passengers died from a hantavirus outbreak on the ship.
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