11 of 13 travelers who came to Omaha from cruise ship test positive for coronavirus, quarantined...

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Julie Anderson

Eleven of the 13 passengers under quarantine on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus have been confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus, Nebraska Medicine officials announced Thursday evening.

All 13 were tested after they arrived in Omaha on Monday after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked off the coast of Japan.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday confirmed the results of the tests conducted by the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory, also on the UNMC campus. Two of the 13 tested negative for the illness, called COVID-19.

Three of the American travelers are being housed in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, and 10 are lodging in the separate National Quarantine Unit in the Davis Global Center near 42nd and Emile Streets.



Read more: https://www.omaha.com/livewellnebraska/of-travelers-who-came-to-omaha-from-cruise-ship-test/article_85adf339-c2d4-5f99-a014-0125f4288569.html

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FULL title: 11 of 13 travelers who came to Omaha from cruise ship test positive for coronavirus, quarantined at UNMC

[juxtaposed]

1. This is not good, but we will guarantee all of them until WHO and CDC say they are free and clear

to leave.

[winstars]

2. A very related story (I think?) linked below:

In Washington, where it was still Sunday afternoon, a fierce debate broke out: The State Department and a top Trump administration health official wanted to forge ahead. The infected passengers had no symptoms and could be segregated on the plane in a plastic-lined enclosure. But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disagreed, contending they could still spread the virus. The CDC believed the 14 should not be flown back with uninfected passengers.

snip.

The State Department won the argument. But unhappy CDC officials demanded to be left out of the news release that explained that infected people were being flown back to the United States — a move that would nearly double the number of known coronavirus cases in this country.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cruise-americans/2020/02/20/b6f54cae-5279-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

[yaesu]

3. I wonder what all of this is doing to cruise ship bookings, I know people who are even afraid to fly

[Aussie105]

7. Simple!

Stay off cruise ships, maybe not fly unless you really have to?

But the extremist use of the opportunity to suspect all people of Asian origin or appearance, as carriers, is way over the top.
As is any conspiracy theory that this is a lab created Chinese biological warfare weapon that escaped from some lab.

[benld74]

4. State overruled CDC

Explains alot

[DallasNE]

5. That's What Trump Wanted

Since he is not only the chief law enforcement officer he is then also the chief medical officer. What could possibly go wrong? Only I can fix it.....

[Aussie105]

6. It seems impossible to contain the virus on a cruise ship.

What chance is there of containing it on an aeroplane?

All you need is forced air circulation. One sneeze, 20 minutes, the whole plane is infected.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Trump should go shake hands with the quarantined Americans. He should have been there to greet them.

He really should congratulate them for living. The Chinese Emperor did. He should too. He should be a man and suck it up for publicity sake. Take a lot of your senior advisers too.

You white supremacist are all afraid of little virus? Show them who is boss and how smart you are about medicine.

[Piasladic]

9. Can you imagine?

With his famous nuttiness about germs, this will never happen sadly.

I like how you appeal to his vanity though. For example: " If tRump is a manly man, he'll get himself infected with SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis, and cooties and be fine in one week!"

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Yes, but his ego is bigger than his brain so there's that.

The Communist Chinese president went and visited the quarantined in China. He was fine. What's the problem with Trump visiting?

I'm not sure about his germ fear. I think he uses it as and excuse.