Piers on Nurse Who Helped Ebola Patients: ‘Reckless Selfishness,’ Trying to Be ‘Media Superstar’

Using his new platform as a columnist at the Daily Mail, Piers Morgan wrote Wednesday that the New Jersey nurse who came back from West Africa and resisted Gov. Chris Christie‘s directive to have her forcibly quarantined is acting with “reckless selfishness.”

After the nurse, Kaci Hickox, returned this weekend to New Jersey from Sierra Leone, where she was treating people infected with Ebola, Christie ordered that she be isolated since she had exhibited fever at an airport screening. So far, however, she has exhibited no symptoms of Ebola.

Christie eventually released Hickox following pressure from the Centers for Disease Control that insisted he was overstepping. In return, Hickox threatened to sue Christie.

“[H]er behaviour since she returned to America has been … astonishing – in its reckless selfishness,” wrote Morgan. “If I were running this Ebola fight in America — and I am just as qualified to do so as the newly appointed Ebola Czar — I wouldn’t trust America’s medics to ‘self-quarantine’ because as we have seen, they will either refuse to comply or lie about it.”

Morgan went on to say Christie’s instinct to preemptively quarantine Hickox was “spot on” and suggested that Hickox is hyping up her situation to become a “media superstar.”

Asked to respond to the potential lawsuit on Tuesday, Christie said, “Whatever, get in line.”

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