Wall Street Journal – by COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON, MELANIE GRAYCE WEST and BETSY MCKAY
The White House pushed back against the governors of New York, New Jersey, Illinois and other states that instituted procedures to forcibly quarantine medical workers returning from West Africa, deepening an emotional debate brought on by recent Ebola cases in the U.S.
A senior administration official said Sunday that new federal guidelines under development would protect Americans from imported cases of the disease but not interfere with the flow of U.S. health workers to and from West Africa to fight the epidemic there. Continue reading “White House Pushes Back on State Ebola Quarantines”