California Tells 7,000 People Who Returned From China to Stay Home Because of Coronavirus

KTLA ^ | 2/21/20 | No Atribution

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California health officials said Friday that 7,600 people who returned to the state after visiting China during the outbreak of the new virus have been asked to quarantine themselves at home this month as health officials try to stop the spread of the virus.

The people returned to the U.S. on or after Feb. 2 and are being asked to monitor their health, stay home and limit interactions with others, the California Department of Public Health said in a statement.

The department said that number excludes those who visited China’s Hubei province, where the disease known as COVID-19 originated. Americans who spent time there and in Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan have been flown home on U.S.-chartered flights and quarantined on military bases.

The U.S. is funneling travelers from China to 11 airports, including San Francisco International Airport, to ensure they get medical screening and medical care. At least 34 people in the U.S. have tested positive for the virus, including 18 who returned home from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan, the Centers for Disease Control said during a conference call with reporters Friday.

Federal authorities at the San Francisco airport are informing the travelers who return from China that they should isolate themselves at home.

Nationwide, the numbers in home quarantine are constantly changing and hard to pin down. The CDC said it is not tracking how many people from each U.S. state who have returned from China have been asked to isolate themselves.

New York state, for instance, has received the names of hundreds of people who recently returned from mainland China. State and U.S. guidelines sort people into high-, medium- and low-risk groups and have advice for each group. But local health departments have discretion in how to carry out the quarantines.

Federal officials share passenger details with states, who pass that information on to local health agencies. All those returning are advised to follow CDC recommendations to prevent possible transmission, the state agency said.

There are 10 people in California who have tested positive for the virus in lab tests performed by the CDC, the California Department of Public Health said. California’s Humboldt and Sacramento counties reported their first cases of the virus Friday, both from people who had recently traveled to China.

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I'm sure these are better people than Kaci Hickox and Frank King and wouldn't dream of breaking quarantine for a pizza or a gig...

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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.

[RummyChick]

at least they aren’t getting welded into their building. posted a video of china doing that. god help those people if a fire breaks out.

[Bell Bouy II]

“have been asked’

That is funny

[nuconvert]

Oh yeah right

[mewzilla]

NYS has hundreds.

Lovely.

[DannyTN]

If 1 in 100 breaks quarantine, that’s 70 people.

Is it too late to build a wall around California?

[Bell Bouy II]

OK fine, hand me the Acetylene torch

[cloudmountain]

The Americans will recover very fast.
We have a life time of good nutrition and good medical care...which is WORLDS away from life in China.

Obesity is NOT a problem in China. WE are the fatsos..

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Pass the nachos, please.

[MeganC]

Got to wonder how many of these people are right this moment working at Chinese restaurants and getting ready to feed dinner to thousands of unsuspecting people.

Brace yourselves, California.

[frank ballenger]

To paraphrase opening section of Flower Drum Song the authorities will tell them to leave California and go east.

“Oh, New York?”

“No. Further east.”

[xrmusn]

California can’t keep people from taking Schiffs on the street and they expect people just to sit inside because they asked them to.

Starting to think WE are reaching the point of no return unless WE get this ship turned around and uprighted.

Sitting back and saying ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ just ainta gonna work.

[Don Corleone]

Brace yourselves, California.

Brace yourself, America. California is on the loose again.

[frank ballenger]

Yes, food preparation workers with no symptoms for 14 days is a problem Michael Savage wondered about weeks ago.
As well as child care, eldercare, medical staff....

Health expert on a radio news show said the true vaccination may be ready in 10 years or longer. We are still adapting to the 1918 flu mutations every year with flu shots.
This new one will be a quick flu shot version rushed out in 12-20 months or so.
That long??

[preacher]

L8r

[entropy12]

I blame the farmers in America for producing too many food crops and chickens and meat animals. /S

[entropy12]

Wonder if Chinese restaurants are sparsely crowded now..

[Sam Gamgee]

But if you come from Mexico, you can bring any diseases you wish and mingle with our population.

[PIF]

Hey man we gotta party to go to so maybe if were up to it and the game gets rained out or something and there is nothing else we’ll think about it but we gotta stock up at the grocery n liquor store and the like.

[snoringbear]

“ Obesity is NOT a problem in China. WE are the fatsos.“
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Yeh, Chinese are much healthier than we are. I was an expat in China for two years and during that time I never saw a single person with downs, crippled, deformed in any manner. So, they seemed very healthy to me. Sarc/