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Tue Jun 16 18:01:54 What the libral media won't tell you! https://ww...der-overruling-medical-review/ RFK Jr. orders hantavirus cruise passenger to remain in secure facility, overrules federal medical review June 16, 2026 The order from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was slipped under Angela Perryman’s door Monday afternoon inside the secure National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska. This is where she and other former cruise ship passengers have been held since last month because of possible exposure to a dangerous type of hantavirus. The order signed by Kennedy requires Perryman to stay inside the locked Nebraska facility through June 21, the end of the 42-day quarantine period — even though an HHS-appointed medical review determined last week that Perryman could safely finish her quarantine at home in Florida. “It has nothing to do with public health at all,” Perryman told Healthbeat Monday evening. “They’re using administrative orders to detain American citizens with no judicial oversight.” HHS officials did not immediately respond to questions about the reasons behind Kennedy’s order and why it appears to contradict the findings of the federal government’s own medical review of her detention. A copy of the order, provided to Healthbeat by Perryman, only says generally that he finds that requirements for federal quarantine continue to be met. What began as a medical evacuation of Americans from a deadly outbreak aboard an international nature adventure cruise has raised increasing concerns from some public health and legal experts about whether the U.S. government has failed to properly balance protecting public health with ensuring people are quarantined in the least restrictive setting that is safe. Neither Perryman nor any of the 17 other U.S. passengers who were sent to the Nebraska quarantine facility after leaving the M/V Hondius cruise ship have shown any signs of infection with Andes virus. This type of hantavirus typically spreads through contact with South American rodents, but also is the only hantavirus known to have the potential to spread from person to person. Of the nearly 150 passengers and crew who were aboard the M/V Hondius, there have been 13 cases of Andes virus, including three deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Person-to-person spread of Andes virus is “relatively rare and generally associated with prolonged close contact” with a person who is sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said in its interim emergency guidance for the public health management of people who have been exposed. Recently, HHS has allowed some passengers to leave the facility and finish their quarantines at home – but often under requirements that state and local health departments ensure 24/7 monitoring. But while Perryman’s home state of Florida is willing to supervise her quarantine at home, it won’t agree to 24/7 monitoring. “At this time the assessment of the Florida Department of Health is that it is not necessary to implement the federal conditions of 24/7 continuous surveillance and twice daily in-person monitoring of the individual at their residence,” according to a May 28 letter Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo sent to Dr. David Fitter, the hantavirus response incident manager at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Perryman provided a copy of the letter to Healthbeat. As part of her quarantine appeals through a federal administrative process, Perryman requested a medical review of the necessity of the terms of her federal quarantine order. According to the June 11 medical review report, an HHS-appointed official from the CDC recommended that Perryman be allowed to finish her quarantine at home in Florida. “The disagreement between CDC and Florida over the appropriate monitoring conditions forms a central dispute in this medical review,” wrote Dr. Michael Bell, the appointed quarantine medical reviewer, who is the director of the CDC Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion. Bell noted in the report he was not previously involved with the quarantine orders in Perryman’s case. After reviewing the evidence in the case, Bell said that it was his professional judgment that “less restrictive alternatives would adequately serve to protect public health.” Bell noted that Florida health officials had proposed once-daily telehealth monitoring with remote temperature checks and symptom assessments. He said these conditions – along with a pre-arranged plan for an appropriate hospital to care for Perryman if she experienced symptoms – would be sufficient to protect public health. “This is a reasonable and efficient approach that is consistent with the level of transmission risk associated with Andes virus infection,” wrote Bell. Perryman, who has been appealing her continued detention in Nebraska for several weeks, had her hopes buoyed by Bell’s medical review. But then she received no information indicating anyone was arranging her transfer to Florida. She said Kennedy’s order on Monday – essentially rejecting the medical review’s recommendations and upholding the current quarantine order – means she’s stuck at the Nebraska quarantine facility until the 42-day quarantine period ends on June 21. Perryman said she thinks she’s being retaliated against for publicly criticizing how HHS has handled the quarantines. “A non-physician just overrode the physician medical reviewer,” she said, emphasizing that Kennedy is not a doctor. Lawrence Gostin, the founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law at Georgetown University, called Kennedy’s order “a shocking disregard for both science and personal freedom.” “It’s a flagrant violation of due process and should be immediately challenged in the courts,” Gostin said on the social media platform X. Appealing federal quarantine orders isn’t an easy process, Perryman said she and her attorneys have found. Numerous bureaucratic hurdles first have to be cleared within the federal government’s administrative process before you can seek a court’s review. “They’ve managed to run the clock down and deny me my Fifth Amendment rights,” she said. “We followed the procedure set forth in the regulation, we complied with the law, and they did not.”

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