[LilFarmer]

@mnhealth
News Release: Health officials confirm first case of novel coronavirus in Minnesota

https://twitter.com/mnhealth/status/1236040392572878848

[LilFarmer]

NEBRASKA

Nebraska has its first confirmed case of coronavirus.

It was a 36-year-old woman who had been in the United Kingdom, Gov. Pete Ricketts said Friday afternoon.

She checked in at Methodist Hospital in Omaha and is being transferred to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Dr. Robert Penn, epidemiologist at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, said the woman came in with a respiratory infection on Thursday that had been ongoing for 12 days. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and had low oxygen.

She was put into a negative airflow room, and screening was done for common community viruses, which showed she was positive for COVID-19.

She is on the main Methodist campus but is being transported to UNMC’s Biocontainment Unit, officials said. She has some secondary bacterial infections, and health care workers are trying to trace whom she may have come into contact with.

She is very seriously ill, Penn said.

https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/nebraska-reports-first-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus/article_41b39628-61a7-57ab-ac7f-3ac6ba5f67c4.html#tracking-source=home-breaking?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_JournalStarNews

[Slainte]

Fabulous. He returns from the cruise, has symptoms as of 2/25 and finally gets around to seeing a Dr. on 3/5?

Here's the MN Dept of Health release- https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNMDH/bulletins/27fc1c6