Kennedy orders American exposed to hantavirus to stay quarantined against her will, WSJ reports
CDC reviewer recommended home monitoring, but Kennedy kept Angela Perryman in Omaha as 10 of 18 cruise passengers remained quarantined.
- On Monday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed an order extending Angela Perryman's quarantine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, overriding a CDC expert's recommendation that she complete her 42-day isolation at home.
- CDC quarantine medical reviewer Dr. Michael Bell recommended last Thursday that Perryman be allowed to return home with remote symptom monitoring once daily and 24-hour access to help, concluding this was adequate to protect public health.
- Florida officials refuse to provide the 'round-the-clock surveillance' HHS demands for her release, though the state offered to facilitate her return with 'appropriate public health monitoring consistent with established public health practices.'
- Attorney Steven Hyman called the system 'unfair,' noting Perryman is the only one of 10 passengers still in Omaha being held against her will; she described her facility stay as 'a prison.'
- Hyman characterized the order as a 'political statement,' pointing to the irony of Kennedy—who opposed COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic—enforcing restrictive measures that Hyman claims lack 'any medical basis.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus in early May from a quarantine facility in Nebraska — despite a federal medical review that said…
RFK Jr. orders passenger from hantavirus-stricken cruise to remain in quarantine in Nebraska, despite CDC recommendation
A woman who was exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise has been ordered by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stay in federal quarantine, despite being cleared to return home to Florida by a federal health expert.
Kennedy orders American exposed to hantavirus to stay quarantined against her will, WSJ reports
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ordered an American passenger exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship to remain in quarantine despite medical advice and against her will, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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