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Posted on 01/26/2020 9:05:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The OC Health Care Agency said it received confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday evening that an Orange County case has tested positive for the coronavirus that appears to have spread from China.
The patient, a “traveler from Wuhan, China, has been in contact with the HCA and was provided guidance in order to reduce exposure to the public while awaiting laboratory confirmation from the CDC. The individual has now been transported to a local hospital and is in isolation in good condition,” the HCA said in a statement.
The Orange County agency said it, in consultation with the CDC and the state Department of Public Health, is following up with all people who have had close contact with the patient.
It said:
–The HCA will monitor any close contacts and assure that proper evaluation and care is provided if they become ill.
–The CDC’s guidance indicates that people who have casual contact with a case (such as in the same grocery store or movie theater) are at minimal risk of developing infection.
–There is no evidence that person-to-person transmission has occurred in Orange County.
“The current risk of local transmission remains low,” the agency said in a statement.
Also Saturday, the new virus accelerated its spread in China with 56 deaths so far, and the U.S. Consulate in the epicenter of the outbreak, the central city of Wuhan, announced it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight.
The latest figures reported Sunday morning cover the previous 24 hours and mark an increase of 15 deaths and 688 cases for a total of 1,975 infections.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Information about the coronavirus is on the OC agency’s website here.
Yeah. All he has to do is sneeze once. How many people still cover their mouth when sneezing (I do!)?
I am guessing this is CA and not FL?
Skin to skin transmission reported
Anything he touched has virus, not known how persistent
Money?
RE: I am guessing this is CA and not FL?
Yes, California.
RE: How many people still cover their mouth when sneezing (I do!)?
DO you wash your hands after that too?
transported to a local hospital and is in isolation in good condition,”
Ya notice they don’t give the name of the hospital? Nobody would go there...They might lose some profit.
I wonder how many in S. CA have been infected by this foreign cootie carrier already?
“officials call risk of transmission ‘low’”
Trust us on this. Are they even sure about all the ways it can be transmitted?
The usual lies from govt officials. Better to prep now if you already havent. Get set to remain in your home for a few weeks.
New York has an Orange County too...but it’s always ignored.
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What i don’t understand is why they took this person to the hospital? If they weren’t sick enough to be hospitalized anyway then why admit them just because they test positive? If they get sicker fine otherwise why expose people you don’t have to?
Money?
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Money is filthy.
It used to be, than the illegals took over..its still sorta red but surprise surprise, all of the midterm elections in OC all went Democrat, after first calling it for the Republican, just one of those spontaneous things/sarc
Ferrrget that. It now resembles a giant overcrowded United Nations, literally crawling with foreign nationals in every direction. Democrat's chain immigration and open borders totally effed the state over.
Still no follow-up from Thursday when they quarantined a man who deplaned with systems on a flight lading from Mexico City-Lax.
It’s because they’re FOS.
I like the part where they totally omit which hospital it is and then tell everyone they’re in “Good Condition”. Tokyo Rose would be proud.
We were until the 2018 election. Lots of late ballots erased republican leads. Fraudulent results.
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