Posted on 02/26/2020 12:06:32 PM PST by Lazamataz
ATLANTA - Two hundred travelers coming through Atlanta's airport showed potential symptoms connected to the new virus that is spreading around the globe and were designated for home quarantine.
The self-screening of those 200 individuals included daily monitoring by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All checked out and did not have to be admitted to a hospital.
So far, of the more than 1,000 passengers looked at, only one traveler inbound from South Korea arrived at the airport with critical symptoms and was taken to Emory Hospital for treatment.
Officials say that individual did not have coronavirus and was released after three days.
While the virus, designated COVID-19, spreads more easily, it has not yet proven to be as deadly as its related coronavirus strands. Of the 44,672 confirmed cases examined, the Chinese CDC said there were 1,023 deaths, which is a mortality rate of 2.3 percent. The 2003 SARS outbreak had a mortality rate of 14 to 15 percent, while MERS had a case fatality of 35 percent, according to the World Health Organization.
In a prior update on the outbreak, the CDC said that they believe the disease is likely to become a global pandemic, though it has not yet been designated that by the World Health Organization.
"Widespread transmission of COVID-19 in the United States would translate into large numbers of people needing medical care at the same time," officials with the CDC said. "Schools, childcare centers, workplaces, and other places for mass gatherings may experience more absenteeism. Public health and healthcare systems may become overloaded, with elevated rates of hospitalizations and deaths."
So... nobody?
It's 'WAY past time to freak out.
Tape diapers to your head and huff bleach fumes.
Then stay off FR before you infect us all :)
> The self-screening... <
Self-screening? I’m sure that will be effective. Because if I’m one of the 200 and I want to go down to the local bar, I’ll just screen myself and declare that I’m okay.
If you huff diapers, that’s not bleach fumes it’s ammonia fumes.
Translation: “Send lots of money”
The regular ol’ flu is still raging in my area, it’s being doing so since the beginning of December, I have never seen anything like it, no sense of it letting up. The CDC flu map shows this as well
This self-medicating crap and the medical personal-responsibility crap are just that! CRAP! these ppl need to be locked down and monitored.
It depends whether you get them from Walmart or out of the dumpster.
Either way, a sure-fire way to avoid any Coronea Viruses and Pandemic Pizza.
Or, they may just have a cold. I recently traveled from Arizona to Virginia to Israel to Jordan to Virginia and back to Arizona with a cough and sniffles.
Nobody thought I needed to have a blanket thrown over my head.
If you compare the sensational click bait headlines to the actual details in the article this was a big nothing. No one was confirmed with the disease. The objective is not to provide information but to get people’s attention with panic and fear. Works every time.
How can they tell the difference between coronavirus and a common cold or flu?........................
“self-screening of those 200 individuals“
Self screening? WTH this is insane. We’d better hope they come with a cure/vaccine because no way this thing gets contained
Absolutely. And this, in a nutshell, explains the bizarre and destructive behavior of the cabal of urine soaked diaper heads[aka The Moolahs] who still cling to power in Iran.
One you die from, the other you recover.
What is the point of this article when they say no one was found to have Covid-19? Does the US use the same little hand-held monitor to determine a fever or heated forehead? What is supposed to be the norm for the forehead? There are a number of reasons a person can have an elevated forehead temp. What is the cutoff degree?
The taste.
I don’t know who believed it won’t spread worldwide on a short notice with modern communications.
Oh no, it's everywhere. It'll kill you dead before tomorrow
and it's already in your house. Scream and shout, it's the end of us all.
Like Ebola and SARS and MERS but this time for real.
A regular Captain Trips and we doomed, yo.
That's because you are handsome (or beautiful, as the case may be).
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