more Miramar news:
China Evacuees at San Diego Base Petitioned to Be Tested for Coronavirus But CDC Declined, Fearing False Negative
Ordered into quarantine, a group evacuated to California from Wuhan, China, is at odds with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has petitioned for five “critical” changes in their conditions.
The CDC has already said no to the first request — the evacuees wanted to be tested for the novel coronavirus....The CDC says Braden has explained the issue of false negatives to the evacuees....
The evacuees then listed their requests. They started with the request to be tested and then added four more: Prevention of gatherings of large numbers of people in small, enclosed environments; delivery of personal protective gear to evacuees, including masks and sanitizing alcohol for room disinfection; provision of hand sanitizer at the front desk and playground; and disinfection two to three times a day of public areas, “including playground, laundry room, door knobs, etc.”
and more:
The two patients who’ve contracted the virus are in fair and good condition, respectively, and the third, which the hospital calls a “patient under investigation” (or PUI), is doing excellent, said Dr. Randy Taplitz, UC San Diego Health clinical director of infectious diseases...
At Rady Children’s Hospital, two children who were under quarantine at MCAS Miramar have been admitted for observation because they were showing symptoms of the disease, hospital spokesman Carlos Delgado told KPBS. This includes 3-year-old Annabel Wucisnki, who was released last Friday after testing negative for the virus. She’s since developed additional symptoms and was readmitted.
Her father, Frank, is accompanying her at the hospital. He is not showing any symptoms.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/feb/14/uc-san-diego-health-treating-two-people-coronaviru/
Suuure. More like they don’t have enough tests.