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Two new coronavirus cases identified in Washington state
By Eileen AJ Connelly
February 29, 2020 | 10:25am




Two new presumed cases of coronavirus have been identified in the Seattle area, including a high school student with no travel history.

The student, who is under 18, is the fourth person to apparently get the virus through unknown origin, also known as “community spread.” One case in Oregon and two in California have also been identified with no clear link to other cases.

The student started feeling ill Monday with body aches, chills and a headache, KOMO News reported.

Health officials said the student returned to his high school in the Everett school system, about 25 miles outside of Seattle, when he started feeling better. Tests results Friday revealed the teen has COVID-19 coronavirus, according to the radio station. He is being kept in home isolation.

Everett Public Schools tweeted that students who the teen had contact with also are being quarantined and will be tested if they develop symptoms.

In a letter, administrators told families they were closing the teen’s school Monday so they can extend the “deep disinfecting” started over the weekend.

The Everett high school is the second in Washington to close because of the virus. Bothell High School, also near Seattle, was closed Friday after a staffer’s family was placed in quarantine for possible coronavirus exposure, SeattlePI.com reported.

The staff member returned to work Monday after an international trip, but a family member who had been on the trip became sick Tuesday and was taken to the hospital. The family member is quarantined at the hospital; the staffer, who has no symptoms, is quarantined at home.

The entire school is being disinfected.

The second new case is a woman in her 50s who traveled to Daegu, South Korea, the center of the outbreak in that country, from Feb. 7-23.

She returned to Seattle to work Monday before she felt symptoms Tuesday. She reported her symptoms to health officials Wednesday and was tested for the virus Thursday.

She hasn’t been in public since her symptoms started and is at home isolation with her husband.

Another person with “extreme flu-like” symptoms checked into a Bellevue, Washington, hospital Friday and will be tested for possible coronavirus, according to a hospital spokesperson, KOMO reported.

The Washington State Department of Health have tested 37 people for coronavirus, with 29 cases coming back negative. Seven results are pending, according to officials.

“We will do everything we can to keep Washingtonians healthy, safe and informed,” Gov. Jay Inslee tweeted Friday night.
 
虽有中国的例子,但美国政府对社区的管控能力,绝对做不到如中国政府的高效。若疫情大规模暴发了,情况会很严重。
 
西雅图现在群众开始洗劫大超市了,COSTCO,人满为患。。。。。。

这周末本村COSTCO已近出现抢购大米,面粉,大罐装水,手纸,消毒液,冰冻食品。。。。
 
本村Costco全部进入千米无车位状态。
 

More than 15,000 coronavirus testing kits are on the way to health professionals, Pence says
Lauren Thomas
GP: Coronavirus CHINA WUHAN CORONAVIRUS NUCLEIC ACID TEST

More than 15,000 coronavirus testing kits are in the mail this weekend en route to health professionals, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

There has been a concern that capacity is limited across the country to conduct tests amid a potential epidemic. The latest numbers show only 472 people so far have been tested in the U.S, according to the CDC. On Saturday, the first death in the U.S. from the virus was confirmed in Washington state.

“The FDA has approved a testing regime that state and local officials can be using,” Pence said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He added the government is working with another “commercial provider” to send another 50,000 kits out. He did not provide details on the timing of when those kits would be finished.

“More importantly, we have established a process in a number of cities across the country — where if someone presents in the hospital with a respiratory ailment, we want them also tested for coronavirus,” Pence said. “We are going to move a lot of volume.”

“We think we have addressed the issue,” the vice president said.

U.S. health officials said Friday that federal agencies were increasing coronavirus testing capabilities at state and local labs, and were planning to streamline a process for the private development of test kits. So far, more than 86,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide and at least 2,979 people have died, the overwhelming majority of them in China.

Pence late last month was put in charge of the U.S. response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

On Sunday, he again urged Americans that they do not need to go out and buy masks to try to prevent them from catching the virus. He said the U.S. has about 43 million face masks stockpiled today, but those need to go to health-care providers first and foremost. The government has also contracted 3M to manufacture another 35 million masks a month starting immediately, Pence said.

The risk to Americans of coming down with the coronavirus remains “low,” Pence said.
 
2 min ago
2 more coronavirus cases confirmed in Washington
From CNN's Melissa Alonso

Seattle & King County Public Health "announced on Sunday two more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in King County residents, bringing the total of confirmed cases" in the county to six, and eight in the state, according to a Seattle & King County Public Health press release.

The two new cases are both males in their 60s with underlying health conditions. One is "in critical but stable condition" at Valley Medical Center in Renton. The other is in critical condition at Virginia Mason Medical Center, the release said.

"This number is expected to rise as more people are tested and results confirmed," according to the release.
A spokesperson for Washington Public Health said they were aware of the new cases.
 
2 min ago
2 more coronavirus cases confirmed in Washington
From CNN's Melissa Alonso

Seattle & King County Public Health "announced on Sunday two more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in King County residents, bringing the total of confirmed cases" in the county to six, and eight in the state, according to a Seattle & King County Public Health press release.

The two new cases are both males in their 60s with underlying health conditions. One is "in critical but stable condition" at Valley Medical Center in Renton. The other is in critical condition at Virginia Mason Medical Center, the release said.

"This number is expected to rise as more people are tested and results confirmed," according to the release.
A spokesperson for Washington Public Health said they were aware of the new cases.

奇怪,为啥只报年龄不报种族?
 
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