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."
THAT’S what I keep wondering???
When We’re out shopping or dining I hear people cough or sneeze and I get jumpy.................
Well, yeah....we are trying to avoid plain ole flu and colds....some Trader Joe’s employee was coughing up a storm while he was talking with someone the other day....it was soooo bad, my husband pulled me away from the areea.
Especially during flu season and around millennials who don't stay home when sick.
No, they don’t stay home, do they ....most of them are so careless about everything ...don’t wash their hands. My son is one of them.
Of course, everywhere you go you have to cross paths with some slob who sneezes his goo into the air and can’t manage to carry a tissue. Have to travel to Boston next week and I’m wearing a face mask. I don’t care. People are dirty pigs.
Tape diapers to your head and huff bleach fumes.
Ehhh, Coronea is the site of a famous battle during the Peloponnesian War. What the hell does it have to do with viruses?
My town too. I do not believe this at all. I personally know someone that works at Emory that supposedly “may have had” indirect contact with someone with this virus who still today is holed up with his family on a 14 day quarantine since last Friday.
I call BS on the stats the CDC is putting out there. I also call BS on the GA department of health on not giving out the stats of how many and where they are.
I am in a NW burb of Atlanta, not near the Alpharetta, Johns Creek , Norcross areas etc with larger ethnic populations.
Well, there is that...
Sick people probably transit airports constantly.
Wow this is truly getting pathetic. Another NON story
“All checked out and did not have to be admitted to a hospital.”
So who the hell believes THAT twaddle?
Our boarders are like a torn pocketbook, so it’s gonna get here if it isn’t already
All part of the plan
You must have remembered this panic. -Tom
WHO Bulletin- In 1976, a late winter outbreak of swine flu at a military base in the USA led to fears of a devastating pandemic. President Gerald Ford announced a plan to vaccinate everyone in the country. By the end of the year, 40 million out of some 200 million Americans were vaccinated for the new strain, but no pandemic appeared and public health credibility suffered.
Dr Harvey Fineberg tells the Bulletin why his 1978 study of that public health response is still relevant today.
No, it's a Mexican beer that is making billions of people sick.
Pay attention.
If ever I have seen a lamestream media article that was intended to generate mass fear and panic out of basically NOTHING, this is it.
The so-called travel ban is something of a fiction; Fox News had Dr. Marc Siegel, one of their medical contributors, at Dulles Airport the other night. He reported that a flight had just arrived from Seoul and passengers were “breezing” through customs. At the same time, a Chinese carrier was boarding a flight for Beijing. When Siegel asked how that was possible, an airline employee told him to “mind his own business.”
“One you die from, the other you recover.”
Incorrect.
BOTH you can die from and BOTH you can recover. It’s a matter of percentages.
The State Department decided to bring in 14 from the cruise ship on a commercial flight. That quarantine is now about 50.
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