EBOLA USA: Team Obama Policies Starting to Feel Like 'Every Man for Himself'

Americans are afraid of Ebola, sometimes panicky. And increasingly, as they behold the national response to the virus, they're simply befuddled.

When leaders differ — and bicker — over how to deal with those who might have been exposed in Africa, one casualty is public peace of mind.

The federal government says one thing, and some states say another. Then those states say something else. And so does Washington.

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa is "obviously ill" upon arrival in Newark, according to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and confined to a hospital isolation tent until she displays no symptoms and is allowed to travel home to Maine.

The White House says it conveyed concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey that their stringent quarantine policies were "not grounded in science" and would hamper efforts to recruit volunteers to fight the epidemic in Africa. But Christie says he'd "gotten absolutely no contact'' from the administration.

The result of all this, according to experts: growing public confusion that tends to obscure reassuring facts about the disease. And quarantines, which advocates describe as a way to both keep the public safe and suppress panic, instead seem unsettling.

"People are confused by just about everything about this,'' said Arthur Caplan, a New York University bioethicist familiar with quarantine practices. "They don't know who's in charge. Everyone thought it was the CDC (federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), but now you have the states involved.''

All is in flux, as the nation grasps for something like a uniform way to cope with the world's most notorious disease.

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