Coronavirus: US airlift from Wuhan to military bases underway; passengers quarantined on arrival

South China Morning Post ^ | 6-Feb-2020 1:00 AM China time (5-Feb-2020 1:00 PM CDT) | Robert Delaney and Bhavan Jaipragas

[topher]

The US government is airlifting people to military bases in three American states from Wuhan, China, the suspected starting point of the novel coronavirus now spreading globally, and will quarantine them upon arrival.

Two flights are scheduled to arrive on Wednesday and another two will land on Thursday, said Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases at the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). The flights will arrive at military bases in California, Texas and Nebraska.

[topher]

Not sure if this should be in a sidebar category or not...

It is info on the evacuation from Wuhan, China with source in the US Government quoted...

[Blue Highway]

So far no cases in FL or NY. Hope it stays that way.

[LucyT]

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PING

[BobL]

“So far no cases in FL or NY. Hope it stays that way.”

Most likely a decent number of those arriving will have the bug, but they’ll find themselves impossible to simple ‘leave’, while locked-down on a military base.

Glad we’re at least doing that right...now how about stopping the rest of the flights coming here from China?

[PGR88]

We should bring 250,000 over, as its the humane thing to do.

Oh wait, they aren’t from the Mideast or North Africa. Never mind.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[balch3]

This is how the AIDS pandemic should have been handled. Millions of deaths could have been prevented.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[shanover]

Sure,let them all in for humanities sake! So we will have various USAF bases and other military installations with infected people. What could possibly go wrong? WTF is wrong with this country! Keep them ALL out!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I don’t think the virus cares much about state boundaries.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And stop China / Canada flights, too!

Stopping all China / North America flights would be better.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

At least AIDS virus was transmitted by bodily fluids, not airborne and via contact. This is going to be MUCH worse than AIDS and we are probably starting these draconian measures way too late. This may be the real SHTF.

[BobL]

Absolutely!...it’s time to cut Asia loose (and maybe Europe and Africa too). At least until this crap is over.