A group of AIDS activists gathered outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City, where a doctor who became the state’s first Ebola patient is reportedly in serious condition. The activists condemned the quarantining of other health workers who have been in contact with Ebola patients, comparing it to the intense stigma associated with the early days of HIV/AIDS.

Jennifer Flynn, executive director of VOCAL-NY: “This is actually an extreme exaggeration. This is hysterical response, the quarantining of people who are not symptomatic of Ebola. And so we’re here in solidarity to make that case and that connection.”