Posted on 03/07/2020 5:44:35 PM PST by redgolum
the 36-year-old Omaha woman who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited Fremont on Feb. 29 according to a release from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
State and local officials are requesting basketball players, coaches and team staff who participated in the Special Olympics event at the Fremont Family YMCA on February 29, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to self-quarantine to limit exposure to others and monitor themselves for development of COVID-19 symptoms as listed below until Saturday, March 14, 2020.
“We’re asking for basketball players, coaches, and team staff who participated this event on February 29, 2020 to either self-report to the Nebraska public health online system at http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx or contact their local health department for guidance and next steps. Informing the local health department is the most direct way to ensure timely medical care if needed and to minimize the potential risk to others,” said Dr. Gary Anthone, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Public Health for DHHS.
Spectators of the Special Olympics events and other people who were in the YMCA facility that same day are at much lower risk than the direct participants. Non-participating individuals can self-monitor and contact a local health department or their health care provider if they develop symptoms.
Earlier in the day, the Fremont Public School district tweeted on their official Twitter page that they are monitoring the situation a statement.
Fremont Public Schools is aware of the news that Nebraska's first confirmed case of COVID-19 was in Fremont on February 29. We are confirming other details and will release a statement shortly.
The woman is believed to have contracted the virus while traveling with her father in the United Kingdom from Feb. 18-27, according to Dr. Robert Penn, an epidemiologist at Methodist Hospital.
Symptoms of COVID-19 can appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. The most common symptoms reported are fever of greater than 100.4F, cough and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
Evidence to date suggests that this virus doesn’t stay in the environment for an extended period of time. Without ongoing contamination from ill people, the facility where the event was held isn’t a risk for ongoing exposure.
Currently, there is not a vaccine or an antiviral (medicine) to protect against COVID-19. Most people with mild illness will recover on their own by drinking plenty of fluids, resting, and taking pain and fever-reducing medications to relieve symptoms while isolating to prevent spread to others. However, people can develop pneumonia and require medical care or hospitalization.
Methodist Hospital in Omaha where the woman was first treated has asked more than 30 employees to self-quarantine for 14 days after being exposed to the patient, according to a press release from the hospital.
The Centers for Disease Control and state health officials recommended the move, and the hospital continues to work with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to identify employees and others who may have been exposed to the patient before they were placed in isolation, according to the release.
One health care worker was unable to self-quarantine because of living arrangements and has been placed in quarantine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Penn said the woman started developing symptoms Feb. 24, and that her illness remained mild until Thursday, when she was brought to Methodist Hospital and diagnosed with a pneumonia-like infection and low blood-oxygen levels.
Doctors put the woman into a negative-airflow room — similar to those available at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment and quarantine units — and screened her for common community viruses.
Tests showed she was positive for COVID-19, Penn said, and chest scans showed she has pneumonia-like symptoms seen in other patients with the disease.
Working in conjunction with UNMC, the woman was moved Friday evening from Methodist to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit.
No firm estimate on how many special needs people were exposed to COVID.
Ping.
Case in Nebraska
Yet tomorrow here in LA we are going to have the LA Marathon, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world and they are not canceling it, its nuts!
Before too long everybody that’s gonna get it will get it. Some will get sick. Others may die. The novelty will wear off. It’s the people who are exposed and don’t come down with symptoms are the ones to study.
I think a lot of these event cancellations are pretty much rolling-virtue-signalling by mostly liberal event organizers. “They cancelled their event, we’re cancelling OUR event, too! Because we CARE just as much as they do!”
BINGO!
Reality check:
MOST Americans will be exposed.
MANY Americans will develop symptoms, some severe, some not.
A FEW Americans will die.
This is my home town.
And just north of the only high containment hospital in the US.
They are not trying to virtue signal.
Whatever....yawn
Why in blue blazes was she allowed to attend the event if she was diagnosed with the illness? Talk about stupid!
You’re right. Not in this case, since there was obvious exposure. But there are an awful lot of events around the country being cancelled without any urgent reason as there is here. It’s more like, “We’re cancelling our event because we CARE just as much as those other people cancelling THEIR events.” If this keeps up, pretty soon people aren’t going to gather anywhere, for any reason.
We were all handed a one-way ticket the moment we were conceived.
I’m more interested in how they can have a Marathon in a city covered in poop. Will they wear special spiked shoes?
Aye. Life is fatal.
Other than Enoch and Elijah no one has gotten out of here alive.
A few?
Right now there are 437 confirmed cases, and 19 confirmed deaths. That’s a 4.3% mortality rate. That’s high. That’s lot more than a “few.”
If most Americans are exposed...millions will die.
Yet South Korea has a 0.61% death rate. With A LOT more cases. Why?
My granddaughters volleyball tournament was canceled because of this. They were to play at Fremont HS this weekend. I heard the Fremont schools are now closed.
Yet South Korea has a 0.61% death rate. With A LOT more cases. Why?
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Mutated? Can’t help but wonder if this is a bio weapon. Same virus but more dangerous.
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