Posted on 01/26/2020 12:34:53 PM PST by 11th_VA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. has five confirmed cases of the new virus from China, all of whom traveled to the city that is the center of the outbreak, health officials said Sunday.
Two new cases were reported Sunday — one in Los Angeles County in California and the other in Maricopa County, Arizona. The others were a patient in Orange County, California, who was in isolation at a hospital and in good condition; a man in his 30s in Washington state; and a woman in her 60s from Chicago.
... The CDC expects more Americans to be diagnosed with the newly discovered virus, which is believed to have an incubation period of about two weeks, as worldwide the number of confirmed cases nears 2,000. The CDC is screening passengers on direct and connecting flights from Wuhan at five major airports in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Guidance from the CDC advises that people who have had casual contact with the patient are at “minimal risk” for developing infection.
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We are about to discover just how contagious this virus is
FYI
China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan - and US biosafety experts warned in 2017 that a virus could ‘escape’ the facility that’s become key in fighting the outbreak
I actually laughed out loud. Lol
Why would the CDC purposely mislead people like this when they have to know how contagious this is and how quickly this virus has spread in China the way it has?
If Wuhan is under quarantine by Chinese gov’t how are there direct and connecting flights from Wuhan now?
For the US:
44,000 daily flights (avg)
5,000 planes in the air at any one time.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/
Average daily passengers in the US (2018): 2,789,971
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That's a lot of people bouncing around and coming into contact with others.
Now consider those working at the airports.
Taxi/limo drivers.
All those 2,789,971 people leave the airports and come into contact with even more folks.
Remember that pansy from the CDC five years or so ago re the Ebola scare?
Kept telling us no danger to USA, then that Vietnamese nurse in Dallas got infected
By an immigrant from Africa, no less . . . sigh
Maricopa County, AZ - Arizona State University?
Orange County, CA - University of California, Irvine?
I just checked and the Wuhan airport is shut down.
Probably enough to cause panic and tank the economy.
I am not an alarmist, but if there are 5 diagnosed cases you can bet there are far more infected who have not yet shown flu-like symptoms. That is why these things are frightening and why I hate air travel so much (it’s not the air travel - it is the communal germs you share in the tube).
Those infected and not diagnosed are now spreading it every hour. That is how the common flu virus works and there is no reason to suspect this one to be any different. It appears to be spreading rapidly in urban China based on the news coverage.
Just think of the close breath proximities boarding and riding in the closed-cabin planes.
You are exactly right. This has the probability of getting out of hand.
yes, I remember that deuche. I’m betting he has probably received a raise and a promotion instead of being fired and having his a$$ sued 12 ways to Sunday.
China's National Health Commission team confirmed the virus can spread between humans.
I remember that jerk.
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