Security that they need to achieve their mission. So general williams is a very busy man right now. The u. S. Military has a lot going on in africa right now. You might remember that u. S. Troops were dispatched to uganda to help root out joseph coney there. Theyve also been sent to the Central African republic to look for elements of joseph coneys rebel group. Theyve sent around 80 troops to the nation of chad to help in the search for the missing nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram. A longstanding Counterterrorism Campaign in somalia and yemen right across the gulf from somalia. A contingent of u. S. Troops was sent to mali to support that countrys fight against islamic militants there. On top of all of that now is this big new effort in the western african nations of guinea, liberia and sierra leone. Its going to be a long time deal because that effort is for the u. S. Military to essentially build up the Public Health infrastructure of those entire countries. Build up the Public Health infrastructure in those countries for those countries so that the outofcontrol epidemic those countries are battling there doesnt continue to threaten the rest of the world. So being the head of u. S. Army africa right now means youre busy. You are in charge of a lot. It means being a very complicatedly engaged person with a lot of life and death demands on your time. A lot of travel demands on your time. A huge territory under your purview. A lot of Different Things going on all over that huge continent and youre the top guy in charge of all of it. You are constantly on the road and very engaged, right . And that was the case for Major General williams, head of u. S. Army africa. It was. Now, though, change in plans. Because general williams and roughly a dozen other troops just completed a monthlong trip to liberia where they were part of setting up the first phase of the u. S. Militarys response to the ebola epidemic in that country. They just finished that. And now that they have left liberia and they are headed back, the army has made the decision to hold them rnd a threeweek quarantine. According to the pentagon, theyve not liked to be quoted calling it a quarantine but it is a quarantine. This u. S. Military team traveling back from liberia, including the twostar who is head of u. S. Army africa are being held in an area not accessible by the public. They arent allowed to leave this area or allowed visitors. While they are being held, they are being monitored daily for symptoms of ebola. To be clear. None of the members of that military mission has exhibited any symptoms of ebola. They were not working directly with ebola patients but they are being quarantined anyway. And this is new. Under previous Public Health guidelines in the u. S. , people who either contact with ebola patients while wearing proper protective gear or people who had been in areas where ebola is epidemic but didnt necessarily have direct contact with patients. Anybody who was conceivably at risk but who themselves showed no signs of having the disease before now, they were basically told to be aware of their risk and monitor themselves and make sure they do not have symptoms. They are supposed to take their temperature twice a day, be in immediate touch with Public Health authorities if they spike a fever or have any other symptoms. People are supposed to selfmonitor and get themselves to qualified Health Professionals at the first sign that anything might be wrong. Thats how it had been. But in the last few days, including now in the u. S. Army, but not in the rest of the u. S. Military, now we have a little bit of ka ogs in terms of what the rules are. We now have Public Health rules for specific jurisdictions being announced every few hours on a state by state and agency by agency basis across the country when it comes to ebola. None of the new rules match. Just in the last 72 hours weve had new announcements from maryland and virginia and illinois and georgia and pennsylvania and new york and new jersey and more are expected, probably more will come in tonight over the course of this show and into the evening. And none of the things these states have announced are exactly like the other things other states have announced. The highest profile policy rollout from new york and new jersey was announced at this press conference on friday by the press conscience, ambitious governors of new york and new jersey. They rolled out their policy on friday. That policy rollout has been a bit of a debacle. The first patient to be diagnosed with ebola in new york was diagnosed on thursday. Thats when Governor Cuomo had a long press conference with the mayor of new york city and other Health Officials to assure the state and the country that americas largest city, that new york was well prepared for this eventuality. Everybody should remain calm. This is all under control and Everybody Knows what they are doing. So that was andrew cuomo on thursday. One day later, the same Governor Andrew Cuomo and new Jersey Governor Chris Christie decided to hold another Big Press Conference together. And at that Big Press Conference they anonced, no, everybody doesnt know what they are doing. Specifically, the federal governments guidelines. The cdc guidelines for how to manage ebola risk. They said those guidelines were not enough. They were not tough enough for new york and new jersey and so these tough governors were not going to follow cdc guidelines anymore. They had a better idea. They decided it was a better idea to impose mandatory 21day quarantines on all medical professionals returning from west africa. Ebola does not spread from people who are asymptom attic or from people who dont have the disease attal. But new york and new jersey announced they were going to quarantine asymptomatic people anyway whether or not they had the virus. Why . Because it seemed safer to them. As governor christie explained at the press conference, they had a chance that very day to prove that their way was better, Health Officials be damned. The reason they had a chance to prove their plans were better than the Public Health derived plans we were following before is because a Health Care Worker that very day had traveled from sierra leone to newark, engine. And so the governor said she would be the test case for their new policy. Weve agreed that quarantine is the right way to go in this regard, and we will work out the particulars of where this particular individual will be quarantined, whether it will be in new jersey or new york. Its the first application of this new set of standards that we have developed over the last 24 hours and now have had the opportunity to implement. Now that weve had the opportunity to implement it, weve developed this new application of standard s over the course of the last day. Thats how long weve been working on it. The person who had to endure this first application of this new set of standards developed over the course of the day turns out she was not going to go along with this happily. She was having none of it. So the story of this weekend was that governor Chris Christie of new jersey fought the nurse and the nurse won. Her name is kaci headquart hi. It seems to have been made up in a complete panic up to and including not even putting her in a normal isolation facility as if she were a normal symptomatic patient with an infectious disease. They didnt even do that. Instead, new jersey decided to build her her own kind of weird tent city. She was confined in her own tent with no Running Water with an invented portopotty where you go number two in what looks look a suitcase and that was their plan for her. Camping for her outside the hospital because the isolation wards dont work . This is a medical professional who was not sumptomatic. She had not tested positive for ebola. She has no ebola symptoms. She is just a person who had the misfortune of getting off a plane in the great state of new jersey. And this is what they decided to do with her. They made it up over the course of the last 24 hours. This nurse did not take it lying down when these bizarre policies were imposed by force on her. She wrote a piece about her treatment for the Dallas Morning News while in her isolated tent city. She said she was being treated like a criminal and a prisoner. Nobody seemed to be in charge. It was chaotic. Nobody was telling her what was going on. The United States must treat returning Health Care Workers with dignity and humanity. She hired lawyers to represent her. So that was all over the weekend. On saturday and into sunday morning. And that apparently caused another freak out from nork and new jersey. In this case, a freak out in reverse. After that nurse took her complaints public and the Obama Administration took notice that what new york and new jersey had announced and started to implement made no sense from a Public Health perspective and they made that assessment public to publicly to new york and new jersey, new york governor andr andrew cuomo then decided to change his tune. Thursday, dont worry, we know what were doing. Friday, everybody freak out. Saturday, oh, my god, the nurse is complaining. Sunday, he gets a new idea. He holds another press conference to say new york will not be doing what new jersey is doing all along. He said people can be quarantined and monitored after they return from west africa but they can be kwaurn tiquarantine monitored at home. We dont have to build them tent cities. Then new Jersey Governor Chris Christie decide hed climb down as well and he announced his big test case for how new jersey was going to lock everybody up coming from western africa was a policy in which, if you didnt have a place to stay in new jersey and landed at the newark airport, theyd lock you up in a tent for a while. A couple of days but then give you a ride to wherever. Now kaci hickox has been allowed to go home to the state of maine even though christie said he was going to forcibly holder if hear 21 days. Christie after caving, hes now insisting this really was his policy all along. Nothing has changed at all, which is plainly ridiculous. But thats what happens when we look to every jurisdiction in the country for leadership on something that ought to be guided by science. This afternoon the cdc put out their new guidelines essentially to guide state policy making on this stuff. The new cdc policies say that people should be evaluated not according to magical thinking about where people have been or what kind of people they are but rather evaluated according to the real risks theyve been exposed to and the real risks they might pose to others. The cdc guidelines cant be binding federally. Our regulatory structure doesnt work that way. The cdc guidelines are set up to be vague enough to leave states room to do it on their own with the best scientific advice. As such, these new guidelines leave states enough wiggle room to create a wide enough range of policy theres probably going to be quite a bit of policy gibber jabber and uncertainty, even now over the next few days after this new cdc advice was released. But what is interesting and what has been lost in all of this is even though Chris Christie and andrew cuomo have a way of gaining attention for everything they say and even though it seems like states across the country are rolling out their new individual quarantine policies because of the new york city case last week and new york and new jersey decided to invent bad Public Health policies, new york and new jersey are not leading the way here. Whether or not you think this is leadership for good or for bad, they arent first. There is another state that has the most stringent or the most draconian mandatory quarantine policy in the country. And it is not new york or new jersey. Its not a state really being talked about in the National Debate at all. That state is actually connecticut. Democratic governor of connecticut dan malloy on october 7th, almost three weeks ago with very Little National attention, dan malloy three weeks ago declared it to be a Public Health emergency and empowered them to constitute mandatory quarantine orders for people returning from west africa. And the order that dan malloy issued leaves it up with commissioner of Public Health in connecticut to decide to impose a mandatory quarantine on anyone deemed by the commissioner to potentially have been exposed to ebola and to expose a risk to others. The number of people affected so far is not clear. Or count as best we can tell is that eight people have been held rnd that mandatory quarantine in connecticut so far. This is not just people selfmonitoring. This is people who are being held. This is an ordered status. One of those individuals who is being held in this ordered quarantine has tested negative for ebola and yet he is still confined to a quarantine under order from his state government. Hes never spoken to the media before. His identity has never been before been publicly revealed. Hes been under quarantine in connecticut for the past 12 days and he is ready to talk for the first time. And that is next. Keeping a billion customers a year flying, means keeping seven billion transactions flowing. And when weather hits, its data mayhem. But airlines running hp endtoend solutions are always calm during a storm. So if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and Cloud Solutions make sure you always know whats coming and are ready for it. Make it matter. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. Its no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. And during the big tire event, get up to 140 in mailin rebates on four select tires. Weve agreed that quarantine is the right way to go in this regard and we will work out the particulars of where this particular individual will be quarantined, whether it will be in new jersey or nork. But its the first application of this new set of standards that we have developed over the last 24 hours. And now have had the opportunity to implement. Working on it for a whole day. Seeing whats going to be good. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie anoncing on friday new jerseys new and controversial ebola quarantine policy. A mandatory quarantine for people who had been to west africa, even if they had no symptoms of ebola. A 21day quarantine. Then he changed his mind. His first test case was sent home to maine after only three days. And, in part, because Chris Christie is a highprofile governor and because he anonced his new standards in bombastic political terms, that quarantine announcement and that cave over implementing it got a ton of attention. But new jersey was not the first state to do Something Like this. Its been a much lower profile thing but the first mandatory ebola quarantine was actually put in place by the state of connecticut rnd a policy announced just under three weeks ago. Connecticut as best as we can tell has approximately eight people under mandatory quarantine orders tonight. Yale university ph. D. Unit ryan boyko is one of them. He travelled to help them set up a computer datagis help them in their fight against ebola. Mr. Boyko has tested negative for ebola but under state orders of the government of connecticut, hes been quarantined at home for the past 12 days and kocounting with an armed Police Officer standing guard at his door. Hes decided now to talk publicly about his quarantine. Joining us via skype is ryan boyko in connecticut. Thanks for being with us. I appreciate your decision to talk with us. Thanks for having me on. What were you doing in liberia . How long were you there . I was there for three weeks. I was helping them build their Contact Tracing system. So Contact Tracing is essentially just identifying and following up with everyone who has been in contact with somebody who later tested positive for ebola. And in every other epidemic, Contact Tracing and then immediately isolating those contacts that become sick is what ended the epidemic. Just the same thing should apply to this epidemic. Just larger and requires more effort now. You were there working on those database solutions, trying to help them in that side, the administrative side of their response, were you in direct contact with people who were sick or around dead bodies at all . Were you in sort of a front line setting at all . No. It was remarkably mundane for what you might imagine. Basically just going from a hotel to the ministry of health where i worked in an i. T. Office most of the time and back to the hotel to eat and go tobase i iccally every day. You left liberia on october 10th, so 2 1 2 weeks ago. When you came back to connecticut, came back to the United States, as far as i understand it, you werent immediately put into quarantine but several days after you got back. What happened there . Why did the state decide to quarantine you . So, yeah, i arrived back on a saturday. And on that wednesday, i had a low grade fever that eventually wound up getting to 100. 2. And so i was in contact with physicians at yale health per their protocol. And they made the decision to send me to the hospital for testing for ebola. And tha