Cuomo Folds: Go Ahead, Self Monitor At Home, I’ll Even Pay You

Facing backlash from the White House, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo relented Sunday night saying that medical workers who had contact with Ebola patients but did not show symptoms of the disease would be allowed to remain at home.

Cuomo then offered compensation for lost income.

Mr. Cuomo’s decision capped a frenzied weekend of behind-the-scenes pleas from administration officials, who urged him and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to reconsider the mandatory quarantine they had announced on Friday. Aides to President Obama also asked other governors and mayors to follow a policy based on science, seeking to stem a steady movement toward more stringent measures in recent days at the state level. h/t NYTimes

 
The announcement by Mr. Cuomo seemed intended to draw a sharp contrast — both in tone and in fact — to the policy’s implementation in New Jersey, where a nurse from Maine who arrived Friday from Sierra Leone was swiftly quarantined in a tent set up inside a Newark hospital, with a portable toilet but with no shower.