by Jon Fleetwood, Jon Fleetwood:
“I don’t want to be dehumanized anymore,” cruise ship passenger Angela Perryman lamented.
On Monday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered American cruise ship passenger Angela Perryman (47)—said to have been exposed to hantavirus—to remain in quarantine against her will and despite expert advice, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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Quarantine orders can be enforced with fines and prison time.
The U.S. federal government’s quarantine authority comes from Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act, which authorizes HHS/CDC to detain, examine, and conditionally release individuals reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease, especially in connection with foreign entry or interstate spread.
Per the WSJ report:
Kennedy said the passenger, Angela Perryman, needed to remain isolated even though a review from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said she should be allowed to quarantine at home in Florida, according to his order viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Perryman, 47, was one of more than a dozen Americans exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship earlier this spring. The group had initially been placed at a Nebraska quarantine unit.
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Some of the other passengers left the facility in recent weeks after the Trump administration asked their home states to heed certain requirements to continue monitoring them at home, including 24/7 surveillance of the people to ensure compliance.
Florida refused to meet those requirements, according to two CDC employees. They added that CDC experts on infection prevention and control, including quarantine requirements, disagreed with the decision to force Perryman to remain in Nebraska.
The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to isolation requirements amid the outbreak has surprised public-health experts, given several of the administration’s top health officials have a history of criticizing pandemic-era restrictions.
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