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Governor Christie on Sunday defended the 21-day quarantine for health care workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, as the nurse who became the first target of the policy continued to criticize her treatment from an isolated tent by University Hospital in Newark.

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Christie speaking in Toms River Thursday.

“We’ve taken this action and I have absolutely no second thoughts about it,” Christie said on “Fox News Sunday” in response to a question about concerns raised by Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined upon landing at Newark Liberty Airport on Friday, having returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

Hickox, who lives in Maine and worked for Doctors Without Borders, complained that the new state protocols were disorganized, and said she had no symptoms and should not be held and treated like a criminal in a first-person account published in the Dallas Morning News on Saturday.

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