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PBS Frontline: 'Patient One,' Saving America's 1st Known Coronavirus Patient
(6 mins.) April 18, 2020. On January 19, a 35-year-old man walked into a clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, complaining of a cough and fever. He described his symptoms to the medical staff and then he told them hed recently returned from Wuhan, China.
The above video, drawn from FRONTLINEs reporting for the upcoming documentary, Coronavirus Pandemic, explores what happened next telling the story of how the first known COVID-19 patient in the U.S. was identified and treated.
We had a game plan in place already, Dr. George Diaz, who treated patient one when he was admitted to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, tells FRONTLINEs Miles OBrien. In fact, less than three weeks earlier, the hospital had undergone an elaborate pandemic training simulation.
And public health officials in the Seattle area had been on alert. Im sure there were other patients in the country. We were ready to detect it, state epidemiologist Scott Lindquist tells OBrien.
In the above video, follow the case of Americas first confirmed COVID-19 patient from how local and federal health officials coordinated to get him tested quickly and safely, to how he was brought to the hospital in an isopod designed to protect those around him, to how he underwent an experimental therapy and was ultimately discharged from the hospital.
Yet in spite of the states preparedness and the patients recovery, it would soon become clear that the virus spread was already ahead of the efforts to contain it.
Patient number one in the U.S. did everything right, but by then it was probably already spreading in areas in the United States, and we were just very slow to pick up on it, Juliette Kayyem, the former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, tells FRONTLINE in the video.
As the toll of the coronavirus outbreak continues to mount, FRONTLINE traces the very different responses in Washington State and in Washington D.C. in Coronavirus Pandemic.
> Tune in starting April 21 check local listings or stream on the PBS Video App, online or on YouTube.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-americas-first-known-coronavirus-patient-recovered/
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PBS Frontline: 'Patient One,' Saving America's 1st Known Coronavirus Patient (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Apr 2020
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Looks like a typical "Frontline" show -wonderfully informative. Look forward to seeing....
EarnestPutz
Apr 2020
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EarnestPutz
(2,117 posts)1. Looks like a typical "Frontline" show -wonderfully informative. Look forward to seeing....
....it tomorrow night.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,757 posts)2. Yep that's the county I live in
Real bizarre to hear the news that the first known case of COVID-19 in this country is so close.