Healthcare workers returning to the U.S. from West Africa won't have problems with new guidelines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Fauci said the new guidelines, which were based on science and data, called for varied levels of monitoring, depending on the risk a person posed to the public.
"You're not going to have problems with the healthcare workers with that kind of science-based approach," Fauci said Tuesday. "They are taking different levels of risks of a healthcare worker, as well as others who are coming in from West Africa."
Former CDC guidelines directed medical workers who had been exposed to Ebola patients to monitor their temperature twice a day, stay within four hours of a hospital with isolation facilities, and contact officials if a fever or other symptoms developed.
Fauci said monitoring and restrictions would be determined by risks identified as "high, some, low but not zero, or no," adding the monitoring would either be conducted by the individual or clinical personnel, which would be determined on a "case by case basis."
The CDC formed the new guidelines after governors in a handful of states announced stricter guidelines than those imposed by the agency. The governors had issued the guidelines after a doctor in New York City was diagnosed with Ebola on Oct. 23.
Dr. Craig Spencer had returned to New York from Guinea the prior week, and ventured into restaurants, subways, and bowling alleys shortly before his diagnosis of Ebola.
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