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MPH’s Schaffner argues that quarantine could harm efforts to contain spread of Ebola

Posted by on Monday, October 27, 2014 in News .

In an article for Bloomberg News, Vanderbilt MPH Program faculty member William Schaffner, M.D., argues that a mandatory quarantine of Ebola health workers returning from West Africa could make the situation worse by discouraging doctors and other health care workers to volunteer and help contain the virus.