Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:e in China for break prob for three to four weeks - gone dec 17 and back first to the third week of January. They were sick just 1-3 days later when in the US.

A lot of them probably picked something up at the airport or on the plane.

A lot of people get sick a few days after flying for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

https://www.businessinsider.com/getting-sick-on-an-airplane-flight-2018-3

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If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

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Anonymous wrote:If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

They are returning from Wuhan, which is under a travel lockdown/quarantine.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused by the GMU one. What I was reading was that the test only takes about 2 days. Why is it still pending?

. Good point. And the case in Washington state - is the person recovered

Yes that is weird. It has been two weeks? So non of his contacts were sick? That would be a positive

No gov would want to release info that would cause a panic or if they don’t have a go forward plan for. Prob get more info once they digest the results and formulate a plan they can share.

China shows us why this is wrong.

Also, the CDC does release this information, as do other governments. But the timing for results has been strange.

Agree. Two weeks with no update on the first case.

I assume they're still hospitalized. Some of the people who have recovered in China were hospitalized for weeks or a month.

There’s been no update on the 2 cases in NH who were being tested.

How long do test results take to get?

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Anonymous wrote:If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

I’m guessing most are returning Americans.

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Does anybody have a map where the confirmed cases are in the United States? I was looking online and for some reason I was drawing a blank. I got articles but no map. Also, my kids go to Wootton high school here in Montgomery county. My daughter shared that a lot of the Asian kids are wearing facemasks to school.

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Anonymous wrote:If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

They are returning from Wuhan, which is under a travel lockdown/quarantine.

Other cities have high numbers too.

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Anonymous wrote:If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

They are returning from Wuhan, which is under a travel lockdown/quarantine.

Other cities have high numbers too.

Other cities aren't quarantined, so US citizens do not need to be repatriated by the government.

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Anonymous wrote:From National Geographic:
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Inspired in part by that case, a team of public health researchers set out to study how random movements about the airplane cabin might change passengers’ probability of infection.

Passengers in window seats have the
lowest likelihood of coming in contact
with an infected person...

...but illnesses are most likely to be
transmitted only to passengers within
one row of the infected person.
Probability of being infected

color codes:
from light green to dark magenta from least to most probability

Light green: Less than 1 percent
Dark green: 5 to 20
Magenta: 80 to 100




The World Health Organization defines contact with an infected person as being seated within two rows of one another.

But people don’t just sit during flights, particularly ones lasting longer than a few hours. They visit the bathroom, stretch their legs, and grab items from the overhead bins. In fact, during the 2003 coronavirus outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a passenger aboard a flight from Hong Kong to Beijing infected people well outside the WHO’s two-row boundary. The New England Journal of Medicine noted that the WHO criteria “would have missed 45 percent of the patients with SARS.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/how-coronavirus-spreads-on-a-plane/#close

Thanks for posting. japan case of a coach/taxi driver possible transmitted from tourists he drove around. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/29/coronavirus-evacuations-begin-as-china-cases-outstrip-sars
"Late on Tuesday, Japan reported its first possible case of human-to-human transition, involving a coach driver in his 60s who had tested positive after twice driving groups of tourists from Wuhan earlier this month. The man is reportedly recovering."

So we have the FCPS student exchange group - 26 or 36? Rather than place them in contained environment ir trailer it's a free roam to cultural sites , hotels, restaurants. If a public entity beings in people from where they might have been exposed and are in an incubation period what's the responsibility? I hav not seen any school board discussions at recent meetings on the topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have a map where the confirmed cases are in the United States? I was looking online and for some reason I was drawing a blank. I got articles but no map. Also, my kids go to Wootton high school here in Montgomery county. My daughter shared that a lot of the Asian kids are wearing facemasks to school.

Seriously?

Right now you are more at risk for the flu. Currently possibly one in MD not at Wootton.

Yes it’s going to come here and yes all high schools not just Wooton will have it.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have a map where the confirmed cases are in the United States? I was looking online and for some reason I was drawing a blank. I got articles but no map. Also, my kids go to Wootton high school here in Montgomery county. My daughter shared that a lot of the Asian kids are wearing facemasks to school.

Johns Hopkins has a map. Not sure if it is up to date.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

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Anonymous wrote:If returning nationals are being quarantined, why isn't there a travel restriction in place for all traveling from China?

They are returning from Wuhan, which is under a travel lockdown/quarantine.

Other cities have high numbers too.

Other cities aren't quarantined, so US citizens do not need to be repatriated by the government.

Right I understand why Americans are being repatriated from the impacted area and why they are in quarantine. But it seems to be spreading quickly in China. Seems like wider travel limits on non-Americans are also needed if it's serious enough that those Americans from Wuhan are being quarantined.

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"So we have the FCPS student exchange group - 26 or 36? Rather than place them in contained environment ir trailer it's a free roam to cultural sites , hotels, restaurants. If a public entity beings in people from where they might have been exposed and are in an incubation period what's the responsibility? I hav not seen any school board discussions at recent meetings on the topic."

That sounds like a crazy risk to be taking. Especially since DC cultural sites are visited by people from all across the country (and world even) and so could spread the virus even more quickly if one of the kids turns out to have been sick with it.

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Anonymous wrote:"So we have the FCPS student exchange group - 26 or 36? Rather than place them in contained environment ir trailer it's a free roam to cultural sites , hotels, restaurants. If a public entity beings in people from where they might have been exposed and are in an incubation period what's the responsibility? I hav not seen any school board discussions at recent meetings on the topic."

That sounds like a crazy risk to be taking. Especially since DC cultural sites are visited by people from all across the country (and world even) and so could spread the virus even more quickly if one of the kids turns out to have been sick with it.

The children arrived well before the quarantine.

These are kids. What do you think we should do with them? We should host them.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have a map where the confirmed cases are in the United States? I was looking online and for some reason I was drawing a blank. I got articles but no map. Also, my kids go to Wootton high school here in Montgomery county. My daughter shared that a lot of the Asian kids are wearing facemasks to school.

Seriously?

Right now you are more at risk for the flu. Currently possibly one in MD not at Wootton.

Yes it’s going to come here and yes all high schools not just Wooton will have it.

?? Where did you get the idea that I thought it was coming to Wootton ? I was just sharing that kids are wearing face masks to school