Posted on 01/27/2020 9:44:55 AM PST by Zhang Fei
U.S. health officials are currently monitoring 110 people across 26 states for the coronavirus, including the five patients who contracted the deadly infection in China and brought it back to America.
The disease, which has killed at least 81 people in China and sickened more than 2,800 worldwide, isn’t spreading within the community in the U.S. and the risk to the public right now is still considered low, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call Monday.
“We understand that many people in the United States are worried about this virus and how it will affect Americans,” Messonnier said. “Every day we learn more, every day we assess to see if our guidance or our response can be improved.”
The number of “patients under investigation” in the U.S. has almost doubled from the 63 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said were under surveillance on Thursday. The CDC says 32 people have tested negative for the virus.
“While that number is 110, we are certainly prioritizing based on [patients under investigation] that might be at higher risk,” Messonnier said.
The CDC confirmed Sunday a fifth U.S. case of the virus — a patient in Maricopa County, Arizona who recently traveled to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the disease’s outbreak and where the majority of cases have been reported.
Messonnier said the CDC has screened roughly 2,400 people flying from Wuhan to five major U.S. airports and is considering expanding its screening. The agency increased its travel warning for all of China, asking people traveling to practice “enhanced precautions.”
“This outbreak is unfolding rapidly and we are rapidly looking at how that impacts our posture at the border. We’re certainly considering broadening of that screening,” she said.
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For years, UT Austin Prof. Pianka has been preaching to his students that 90% of the population should be killed off with Ebola. Notice these sickos never push to the front of the line.
I added grandma’s silverware to the mix. Yeah, I know, but it’s free and can’t hurt.
But GOD FORBID we stop incoming flights from China.
!!!!!
That’s what I believe.....5
....beware of the hype
FoxBix reporting that US State Dept now recommending NO travel to CHINA, not just the Wuhan Province.
We’ve been abandoned in Wuhan ghost town, say Britons trapped in coronavirus city
behind paywall
Britons trapped in the Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak have condemned the UK government’s failure to arrange evacuations, saying they feel as if they are trapped in a zombie film.
They described Wuhan becoming a “ghost town” after it was locked down in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. Boris Johnson said today that the government was “looking at everything we can to give reassurance to those people in Wuhan”.
Graham Hubbard, one of a group of three British scientists confined to their hotel rooms, said the Foreign Office’s advice has been confusing and came too late for them to plan their own escape.
The United States, France and Spain have already announced the repatriation of their citizens.
What about Chinese visiting HERE?
Anything about THEM!?
Chicoms probably own the state department right along with Ukraine.
i saw a claim on twitter that China isn’t going to allow the evacuations. I don’t think that is true but will watch and see.
Are we approaching the moment where Wuhan has to be nuked to save the rest of us?
Exactly!!!
That should’ve been STEP ONE!!
from twitter
NEW: Tuesday’s planned evacuation flight from Wuhan, originally scheduled for San Francisco, will now land in Ontario, Calif., east of Los Angeles. Another scoop by
@jamestareddy
@Liz_in_Shanghai
, with some great color from the anxious Americans in Wuhan.
Please ping if you hear any updates on these evacs. I’ll do the same.
Self-isolated means NO contact, not *not too much time*.
What?? They’re landing/arriving that close to LA???
Why not quarantine them ALL in Alcatraz??? Or, some island.
Check the HUGE size of the China quarantine. Planes are still flying in and out so that’s hardly a quarantine. China admits they’ve only blocked major roadways. It super easy to back roads so, again, not quarantined.
Insane.
Another thread takes the original 41 and cases and found that: "One significant finding from the research was that although some of the fatal cases of 2019-nCoV were among people with underlying diseases, most of the first 41 patients infected were healthy. Approximately one-third of these patients required intensive care, and six of them died."
you do the math
At a 3.8 R0, if that number offered up by an epidemiologist is correct... the 1918 flu hit @ R0 of 2 hit 1/3rd the worlds population with no 1 day global mass travel so something almost twice as transmissible would infect many many more. Some isolated tribes in the Amazon, the scientists in Antarctica and the cannibals off the coast of India and the guys and gals on the space station... no... but the rest of us without natural immunity... almost everyone would have had it.
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