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After researching, I still think the idea of quarantining people with HIV is preposterous and everyone I talked with agreed. However, I don't think Price's goal was to solely say quarantine those with HIV; rather, I think her main point that something should be done to stop the spread was lost in the outrage regarding one small piece of her comment. I realized this through actually watching the exchange and talking with my mom. She probably should've worded her question better, but I don't think she meant to offend anyone on purpose. I do think some people are using this topic, along with others, to freely bash politicians they don't agree with, which I think is wrong. One of the sources also informed me that quarantining is more possible than we think, which is alarming. Overall, I think I participated a lot in class (it helps being loud and opinionated) and listened to others opinions well.

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I had a conversation with my mom where she saw both sides of the argument. On one hand, she compared quarantining those with HIV to how lepers were treated. She called this inhumane, which I agree with. On the other hand, she believes that Price probably didn't actually mean what she said. My mom believes that she most likely meant how is it being controlled, but she poorly chose her words. We also talked about how she has medical experience, so she probably is worried more about curtailing the spread rather than actually quarantining people. We both agreed that quarantining is not the answer to stopping the spread of HIV.

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State Rep. Betty Price suggests "quarantine" for HIV patients

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State Rep. Betty Price suggests "quarantine" for HIV patients

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This is the actual video of Rep. Betty Price asking about the legal options to "curtail the spread" of HIV. You can clearly hear that she is struggling to form a thought, even mentioning in the beginning she struggles to organize her thoughts. In my opinion, her voice is boring and she sounds like even she has no clue what she actually wants to say. It is basically a minute of her struggling to ask how we can legally stop the spread of HIV. Clearly I don't agree with what she is saying; in no way is quarantining people with HIV a viable or ethical option. However, I can see how this might've been blown out of proportion since it isn't even the actual focus of the question. This source is reliable because it is the original video of Price that all quotes are taken from.

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State Rep. Betty Price suggests “quarantine” for HIV patients

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Rep. Betty Price, R-Roswell, wife of former U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, raised questions about quarantining Georgians with HIV during a House committee meeting.

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An HIV Quarantine like Betty Price Wants Would Be Very Easy for the Government to Start

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An HIV Quarantine like Betty Price Wants Would Be Very Easy for the Government to Start

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This article brings up the fact that quarantining is nothing new; the word can bring up images of Typhoid Mary or Kaci Hckox, who was quarantined with Ebola in 2014. This article is the first I've read to mention that Price called the number of people living with HIV "frightening." Another point they make is that state and federal agencies can quarantine for any "communicable disease." However, HIV is not on the list. In the 1980s people were supportive of a quarantine for AIDS, ID cards or tattoos for those with HIV, or HIV tests required for job applications. Many previous politicians have suggested quarantines or drastic crimes against those with HIV. I think this article is important for two reasons. First, it informs people that a quarantine on HIV is possible. However, it also shows how far we have come because most people no longer support a quarantine on HIV. This article is reliable because it is straightforward and not very biased. It also is from a fairly reputable source, Newsweek.

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The word quarantine might trigger visions of Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary," or of Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined in New Jersey during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak. Recent remarks about quarantining people infected with HIV have sparked fresh outrage. However, the idea is surprisingly old.

Dr. Betty Price, a Republican member of the Georgia state legislature and the wife of former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, asked what the state of Georgia would legally be able to do to control the spread of HIV. "I don't want to say the 'quarantine' word, but I guess I just said it." Project Q, an outlet that serves the queer community in the Atlanta region, first reported Price's remarks.

Price also called the number of people who are surviving with HIV "frightening," and noted that in the past, people with HIV and AIDS had a higher mortality rate.

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Both state and federal agencies have the power to quarantine. But neither state nor federal law lists many specific quarantinable diseases. The laws are written broadly, granting governments the power to quarantine people with an unspecified "communicable disease."

At the federal level, quarantinable diseases are determined by executive order. The list was last updated in 2014. Plague, tuberculosis, cholera and Ebola all make the lists of diseases that can trigger a CDC quarantine. HIV does not.

Today, the CDC and local health departments track cases of HIV and collect data on people who have been infected, including their names. But during the 1980s, Americans showed a disturbing willingness to step up surveillance much, much further in the name of public health. A 1985 poll showed that a majority of people surveyed supported quarantining people with AIDS. Slightly less than half would have also supported introducing ID cards or tattoos for HIV-positive people, or doing HIV tests as part of job applications.

It's not the first time a political figure has suggested isolating or quarantining people with HIV. In 1987, Jesse Helms, a Republican senator from North Carolina, introduced a bill to make it a federal crime for a person who knew they had HIV to donate blood, require prisons to segregate HIV-positive inmates, and withhold funds from states that did not require HIV tests for people applying for marriage licenses.

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in 1992 that the federal government should "take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."

And in 2013, a Kansas law sparked concerns that the state's health department could institute quarantines for people with HIV.

Price has told reporters that her words were taken out of context.

The video of the committee is available online.

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An HIV quarantine like Betty Price wants would be easy for the government to start

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The word quarantine might trigger visions of Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary," or of Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined in New Jersey during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak. Recent remarks about quarantining people infected with HIV have sparked fresh outrage. However, the idea is surprisingly old.

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Georgia lawmaker: Can people with HIV be 'legally' quarantined?

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Georgia lawmaker: Can people with HIV be 'legally' quarantined?

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The article starts by mentioning Price's question about the legality of quarantining HIV patients at a public hearing. Her question was posed to Dr. Pascale Wortley, the director of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Surveillance Section of the Georgia Department of Public Health. HIV and AIDS are serious diseases in the United States and pose a risk to others if not in treatment. However, the article mentions how the majority of HIV patients are receiving treatment and do not pose much of a threat to others. Advocacy groups like GLAAD were outraged, claiming Price is stopping progress and violating "basic decency." Mel Robbins said she was thankful Price was not a doctor that could violate HIV patients and their rights. Price has now backtracked, saying her comment was taken out of context and she only wanted to motivate people to make a change. I agree with Robbins and GLAAD, Price's comment was offensive and in no way an ethical route to stopping the spread of HIV. Personally, I think Price's comment in no way came off how she claims she meant. I think this source is fairly reliable because it is CNN, a widely known network, and they link all of their sources so you can check the quotes and facts for yourself.

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"What are we legally able to do?" Dr. Betty Price, a Republican, asked Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Surveillance Section at the Georgia Department of Public Health. "I don't want to say the 'quarantine' word, but I guess I just said it. ... What would you advise, or are there any methods, legally, that we could do that would curtail the spread?"

Price, whose husband, Dr. Tom Price, resigned last month from President Donald Trump's Cabinet, raised the issue during a committee meeting.

"It just seems to me it's almost frightening the number of people who are living that are potentially carriers -- well, they are carriers -- but, potential to spread," Betty Price said. "Whereas, in the past, they died more readily, and then at that point, they are not posing a risk. So, we've got a huge population posing a risk if they're not in treatment."

An estimated 1.1 million people in the United States were living with HIV at the end of 2014, the most recent year for which this information is available, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wortley did not directly address Price's question about quarantine, pivoting instead to describing the state's programs for identifying and tracking HIV patients.

Advocacy group demands apology

The quarantining of people with HIV has not been a matter of serious discussion since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. At that time, about half of respondents to a poll by the Los Angeles Times found said AIDS should be added to the list of infectious diseases that require quarantine.

The LGBQT advocacy group GLAAD on Friday demanded an apology from Price.

"We have come a long way in how we understand and talk about HIV as a nation, and comments like those made by Georgia State Representative Betty Price fly in the face of that progress, and of basic decency," the group's president, Sarah Kate Ellis, said in a written statement.

It is "reprehensible" that the comments were made by a physician and a lawmaker, Ellis added.

CNN legal analyst Mel Robbins also criticized Price.

"My first impression is, 'Thank god, as a doctor, she is not treating people with HIV,' because she clearly knows nothing about the disease," Robbins said. "As was the case with Ebola, to have any kind of quarantine, the immediate threat to the public would have to be so substantial as to warrant the infringement upon someone's individual rights."

Price's office did not respond to CNN's multiple requests for comment, but she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday that her comments were "taken completely out of context."

"I do not support a quarantine in this public health challenge and dilemma of undertreated HIV patients," she said in a statement.

"I do, however, wish to light a fire under all of us with responsibility in the public health arena - a fire that will result in resolve and commitment to ensure that all of our fellow citizens with HIV will receive, and adhere to, a treatment regimen that will enhance their quality of life and protect the health of the public."

The Georgia Department of Public Health, on behalf of Wortley, declined to comment.

Proper care can eliminate virus spread

Price was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in a 2015 special election to represent Atlanta's northern suburbs. She serves as deputy whip for the Republican caucus and is a member of the Health and Human Services Committee, according to her official biography. The Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists supported Price's candidacy.

Men and women who are HIV-positive can virtually eliminate their chances of transmitting the virus if they are under proper care.

Getting tested and knowing one's status is the first step in the fight to end HIV/AIDS. The CDC estimates 1 in 7 people who have HIV don't know they are infected. Those carriers can then unwittingly infect their sexual partners or, in the case of drug users, individuals with whom they share needles or syringes.

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GA lawmaker: Can HIV patients be quarantined?

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"What are we legally able to do?" Dr. Betty Price, a Republican, asked Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Surveillance Section at the Georgia Department of Public Health. "I don't want to say the 'quarantine' word, but I guess I just said it. ...

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Tom Price's SHAMEFUL Wife Says People With HIV Should Be Rounded Up and Quarantined

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Tom Price's SHAMEFUL Wife Says People With HIV Should Be Rounded Up and Quarantined

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This is a radio show that begins by talking about Betty Price's husband, which I don't really see the relevance of. Apparently he participated in some shady stock trading. This leads into the anchor calling Betty Price a disgusting and boring person. He continuously bashes her, saying you will be appalled and want to doze off. He plays the video of Price speaking. They compare it to going after a terror cell. He veers away from discussing HIV, instead discussing marriage equality, mocking Trump, and white bigotry. I don't really follow his train of thought. I think he took this topic as an opportunity to explain his ideas and bash various conservative politicians. Therefore, I don't think this source is very reliable. It is just two guys bashing various politicians with little substance. They don;t even really discuss HIV, instead they discuss white bigotry (they are white??).

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Tom Price's SHAMEFUL Wife Says People With HIV Should Be Rounded Up and Quarantined

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Majority Report contributor Michael Brooks is hosting the show for Sam Seder today. In this clip, we take a look at Georgia State Rep. Betty Price's suggestion to quarantine people exposed to HIV. It should probably be noted that Betty Price is the wife of former Secretary of Health and Human Services and all around bad guy Tom Price.

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Tom Price's wife asks about 'legally' quarantining HIV patients

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In this article, they begin by summarizing the basic facts most other article offer; however, this one offers direct quotes from Price. Some of these quotes comment on how patients of HIV "died more readily" in the past so now it is more pressing to "curtail the spread." This article adds some background for Price, mentioning her history as an anesthesiologist and her time serving on medical boards. It also emphasizes how Georgia has the 5th highest number of adolescent and adult HIV patients in the United States to provide some context for the question. Many human rights and LGBTQ groups were outraged and took to Twitter, calling her ignorant and insisting she should resign. This article didn't really have much to agree with, it was more just stating the facts. I agree with the tweet from activists that she definitely is against progress, however calling for her to resign and attacking her intelligence seems a bit much. This source is another fairly large news source, USA Today, therefore it is reliable and not surprisingly not very biased.

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Betty Price (center) is pictured between Vice President Pence (right) and her husband Tom Price (left) as Tom Price gets sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary earlier this year. Tom Price later resigned in wake of a travel spending scandal. (Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)

During a committee meeting in Georgia earlier this week, Republican state representative Betty Price, the wife of former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, asked about the legalities of quarantining HIV patients.

"What are we legally able to do? I don't want to say the quarantine word, but I guess I just said it," Betty Price is heard asking Dr. Pascale Wortley, in a video about the committee's study on access to adequate health care.

"Is there an ability, since I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread," Betty Price continued. "Are there any methods, legally, that we could do that would curtail the spread?"

"Whereas in the past, they died more readily, and at that point, they're not posing a risk," she added. "So we've got a huge population posing a risk if they're not in treatment."

The exchange between Betty Price and Wortley, which starts at about the 1:02:00 mark, can be watched below:

Like her husband, Betty Price is a medical professional that has worked as an anesthesiologist for more than two decades, according to The Associated Press. She also served on the boards of the Medical Association of Atlanta and the Medical Association of Georgia and is a past president of the American Medical Women's Association in Atlanta, AP reported.

In 2015, only four states had more adults and adolescents living with HIV than Georgia, according to a fact sheet on the state's Department of Public Health website. The total number of people living with HIV infection in Georgia on Dec. 31 of that year was 54,574, and nearly two-thirds of them lived in the Atlanta metro area.

Betty Price's comments drew rebukes from human rights and LGBTQ groups, with some calling for her immediate resignation.

"This bigotry and ignorance from an elected official is beyond outrageous," Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin voiced on Twitter.

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, issued a similar condemnation.

"We have come a long way in how we understand and talk about HIV as a nation, and comments like those made by Georgia State Representative Betty Price fly in the face of that progress, and of basic decency," said Ellis in a statement. "This language coming from anyone is totally unacceptable, but coming from a medical doctor and a Georgia State Representative it is reprehensible."

"GLAAD is calling for a full apology for these remarks on behalf of all people affected by this harmful statement," Ellis added.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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Tom Price's wife asks about 'legally' quarantining HIV patients

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Betty Price (center) is pictured between Vice President Pence (right) and her husband Tom Price (left) as Tom Price gets sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary earlier this year. Tom Price later resigned in wake of a travel spending scandal.

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This video starts by showing an AIDS and HIV 5k. They then summarize Betty Price's comments and reactions to them before interviewing various people from the 5k. Those interviewed discuss how they work to educate and prevent HIV spread, but it can be hard to debunk misconceptions about the disease. Many believe that politicians should think before they make those comments, one even asking if they would still do it if their family was affected. All were outraged, but plan to still educate on HIV. I like this source because it shows what everyday people think of the comments, but also what they plan to do regarding the disease. I also think it is fairly reliable since it is a reputable news source, even though it has everyday people speaking.

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The lawmaker is under fire for recent comments about HIV patients.

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I picked this topic because I am very interested in the health field and various diseases such as HIV. I have learned a little bit about HIV in Biomed, but don't know every detail. However, I do know that it is more controlled than it used to be. At first I didn't know much about what to chose as my topic, but I stumbled across the comment by Georgia representative Betty Price saying that HIV should be quarantined. It immediately sparked my interest and I wanted to know more about why she said it, was it taken out of context, and how did people respond. My stance on this issue is that quarantining people with HIV is highly unethical and shouldn't even be considered since it is primarily spread though needle sharing and sexual intercourse.