marsh
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Yep, this was the inevitable alternative if they couldn't stay at Travis and they couldn't find an intermediate bed in Costa Mesa at that empty facility (blocked by the City Council of Costa Mesa.)This is from yesterday afternoon....
Four new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Northern California
Four new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Northern California
Four people who were quarantined at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield have tested positive for coronavirus and been moved to area hospitals.
CORONAVIRUS
Author:Becca Habegger
Published:3:24 PM PST February 25, 2020
Updated:3:47 PM PST February 25, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Four patients with newly confirmed cases of coronavirus [COVID-19] are now receiving treatment at Northern California hospitals, a CDC spokesperson confirms.
These four patients are Americans who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan and brought to Travis Air Force Base in Solano County for a 14-day period of quarantine. On Monday afternoon, CDC officials said test results came back positive for four of the evacuees staying at Travis. Hours later, they were taken to hospitals in Napa, Sonoma and Contra Costa counties.
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That brings the total number of Diamond Princess passengers evacuated to Travis Air Force Base who then tested positive for the coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, to 19.
Of those 19, 15 patients — including the four newest cases — are in Northern California hospitals, spread over several counties. The remaining four were taken to medical facilities in the Spokane, Wash.
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CDC spokesperson Scott Pauley said patients are going to hospitals across several counties "to make sure the burden doesn’t overwhelm Solano County’s" health services and system. This also isn't impacting the number of beds for regular hospital patients.
"COVID-19 patients require specialized isolation rooms where the average hospital patient would not stay," Pauley said.
He also explained by spreading the patients across multiple counties, the CDC isn't expanding the risk of exposure because every hospital, "has CDC protocols in place."
"Nobody in the community or hospitals are at heightened risk," Pauley added.
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The CDC expects more test results soon from those who were evacuated to Travis AFB
This is likely why the CDC was talking about triage yesterday. They need to sort people out through a gatekeeper prior to entry into hospital facilities. They will test and most will be sent home for home care. Only those needing ICU/respirators will be allowed in the hospital to use one of its few rooms. Now these folk needing only intermediary care are occupying those special rooms as there is no longer somewhere to put them.
They need to hustle to find and remodel some intermediary facilities just like Wuhan did.