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An opinion piece titled “IU experts: Ebola quarantine isn’t good science,” written by IU McKinney Professor Nicolas P. Terry and his IU colleagues, Professors Eric M. Meslin, Chad Priest, Ross D. Silverman, was published in the Indianapolis Star on November 1.

Thus far, the piece has also been published in two other Gannett-owned newspapers, the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, and the Arizona Republic.

The IU experts point out that a blanket quarantine policy is a political response to the fear of the disease spreading. In the piece, they note the politicized and fragmented reactions to the symptom-free nurse and the doctor who was initially free of Ebola symptoms only to later be hospitalized. Both had recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

Professor Terry is a co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU McKinney, and also is the Hall Render Professor of Law.

Professor Meslin is the founding director of the IU Center for Bioethics; associate dean for bioethics at the IU School of Medicine, where he also is a professor of medicine. Meslin also is a professor of medical and molecular genetics, of public health, and philosophy. He has a secondary appointment at IU McKinney as a professor of bioethics and law.

Priest is assistant dean for operations and community partnerships at the IU School of Nursing, co-director of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship, and an adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at the IU School of Medicine.

Professor Silverman is a professor of health policy and management at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. He has a secondary appointment at IU McKinney as a professor of public health and law.