California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the coronavirus

[bucolic_frolic]

Source: CNBC

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that 33 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and the state is currently monitoring at least 8,400 others —a day after U.S. health officials confirmed the first possible community transmission of the coronavirus in a Solano County resident.

“This is a fluid situation right now and I want to emphaize the risk to the American public remains low,” said Dr. Sonia Y. Angell, California Department of Public Health Director and State Health Officer during a press conference. “There have been a limited number of confirmed cases to date.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t know exactly how the new California patient, who’s receiving medical care in Sacramento County, contracted the virus. The patient didn’t have a relevant travel history or exposure to another patient with the virus, the CDC said Wednesday.

California health officials said the patient wasn’t under quarantine before her diagnosis and was out and about in her community.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/27/california-is-monitoring-8400-people-for-the-coronavirus.html

[MichMan]

1. What exactly does monitoring entail?

[Skittles]

3. I guess you self-report if you get sick?

not sure

[CreekDog]

5. why are you guessing?

what is the value of posting a wild guess?

[Skittles]

6. it's an internet board?

where people can speculate?

[SunSeeker]

2. "Patient wasn't under quarantine before her diagnosis and was out and about in her community"

You can bet there are a lot more out there.

This is what happens when Trump disbands the pandemic response team, leaving us unprepared.

As the whistleblower said, quarantined, untrained and unprotected federal employees in late January/early February assisted the cruise ship and armed forces evacuees at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, CA. That is the same county that hospitalized woman is from, our first case of "community transmission." She was hospitalized February 15.

Pretty fucking obvious what happened.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I sure am glad to be a CA resident at this time and

not a resident in a red state which has a govt that lies and you can't trust (hello Penceland/ Indiana) and has crappy health care and insur. Our state will take care of its residents better than the Federal govt at this point, I am sorry to say.