How To Handle Ebola Fear In The Workplace: 4 Scenarios
Law360, New York ( October 31, 2014, 9:51 AM EDT) -- The governors of New York and New Jersey order lockdown in "government-regulated facilities" for health care workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. Parents at a Mississippi school frantically pull their children from class, having learned that the principal traveled to Zambia, a central African nation roughly 4,000 miles from the nearest Ebola-stricken region of West Africa — more than the distance between New York and Anchorage, Alaska. A resident of Louisville, Kentucky, virtually quarantines herself at home after learning that a nurse in the Dallas hospital where an Ebola patient died had flown to Cleveland, more than 300 miles from her house. An impromptu, panic-driven industry in biohazard protective gear arises overnight, offering all manner of Ebola protective gear, from "deluxe face masks" to "fully encapsulating Ebola suits."...
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