Posted on 01/24/2020 7:24:47 AM PST by Raebie
A second U.S. case of the new coronavirus has been confirmed in a patient in Chicago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The patient, a woman in her 60s and a Chicago resident, had traveled to Wuhan, China, in December. She was admitted to the hospital and is in stable condition, according to Illinois health officials.
"We understand that some people are worried about this virus and how it may impact Americans," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said at a Friday news briefing.
"The immediate risk to the U.S. public is low at this time," Messonnier said.
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You have got to be kidding me.
Someone could have come here from China in December. Croaked. And it not be reported because they didn’t understand yet.
But sure..go ahead and claim this is not big deal.
I take this kind of thing seriously as I had a young relative fall dead from a little flu. Sepsis.
Had she been to China and had coronavirus and died in December they probably still wouldn’t have understood it to be from that.
It would have been Flu.
But go ahead and claim it is no big deal and people shouldnt take precautions
There are those here that won’t believe you because the CDC doesn’t have it in a report yet.
What are the real figures?
Money line.
In the US there are about 637,000 deaths in winter months, 574,000 in summer months. Granted a lot of those are older people. But some are younger. The difference is mainly respiratory illness.
people shouldn’t take precautions
What, pray tell, precautions will stop the spread now?
Slow down maybe, but the cat is out of the bag
Thanks palmer.... scary stuff.
“A man diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus near Seattle is being treated largely by a robot”
“The department defined close contacts as anyone who interacted with the patient and came within 3 to 6 feet of the infected person, for a prolonged period of time while infectious or had direct contact with his secretions.”
“Do you have a link?”
It’s on the Dailymail.com
Thanks.
Don’t care but that’s what I heard - they just sort of mentioned it in passing as if no big deal or to be expected. Maybe they reported wrong I don’t know.
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