Mandatory Ebola quarantines may seem harmless. What's the problem, after all, with telling doctors to stay home for 21 days, maybe catch up on Netflix (at home, in a hospital bed, wherever) and prevent any risk of a vicious disease spreading? It seems like a logical response to a deadly disease. But public health experts are lockstep against mandatory quarantines like the ones New York and New Jersey have embraced, which require returning health workers to spend three weeks at home or in a hospital . The Infectious Diseases Society of America says mandatory quarantines carry "unintended negative consequences...
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