Hundreds in Michigan being monitored due to coronavirus

Another related to cruise ships. Floating septic tanks, with SARS. Fuck that.

On Sunday the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported that it is currently monitoring 325 people.

All of the people being monitored have been to mainland China within the past two weeks or were passengers on a cruise ship with a confirmed coronavirus case.

No one is being quarantined. The MDHHS says that is because they were not deemed at high risk during the screening process.


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They are being monitored and not quarantined, all had been to China or a cruise ship with the virus present.

Soon to be 650

Then 1300

So and so on

And so goes the world....

So what if 1300 are monitored? It doesn’t mean jack shit. None of those people are confirmed to have the virus. People need to chill out about this

Tell that to the Italians

By the way

No one is freaking out

Just reporting the news

So why are people in the rest of the country in quarantine under the same circumstances? Think Michigan just made a fatal decision.

Early spring

Mowing lawns April 1st

Hopefully it won’t mutate, but let’s be real

I live in Michigan, it'd be a real shame if Dearborn gets hit and wipes out the Mooslems.

No

They weren’t showing signs or fevers

So they lucked out on quarantine

turned out to be mono

you dont like geriatric gangbangs? there's free diapers

yes, there is a degree of self-stimulation about this for a few


monitoring is prudent. done intelligently, it is our best response.

Just because someone wants to know what’s going on

Doesn’t mean they’re freaking out

Better well informed than clueless

5g

Who is stupid enough to still be traveling to China? I mean we all knew about this shit by at least the beginning of Feb!

I feel like you don't realize the extent of our government's negligence on this issue. The state dept and DHS transported sick ppl and well on the same plane, against the recommendation of the CDC. Furthermore, the President made it clear that we were not to transfer ANY of the sick ppl to American soil. This isn't okay. There were plenty of good reasons to leave the sick ppl there. Heads should roll over this one

All the ppl that were on that ship will end up with it. We probably should have left them all there. Sent some CDC doctors in full gear with meds to help them, but we shouldn't have brought them here. We have bases in Japan, yes?

at this point it will have to run its course be before the genie can be put back in the bottle.

Yeah, it's 99% asians.

Does anyone else see what's happening?

Or is fear mongering to sell storable food more important?

how many whites dyed?

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Is 14 Days Long Enough to Contain COVID-19?
Not getting incubation period right could defeat purpose of quarantining

by Rossi A. Hassad PhD, MPH
February 19, 2020

As the number of people in quarantine for COVID-19 increases, so does the likelihood of encountering outliers, to the extent that an incubation period beyond 14 days can be considered biologically plausible, and from a statistical and probability perspective.

The incubation period is a critical factor in controlling the spread of disease. Another key factor is the latent period, or the time between the occurrence of infection and becoming infectious. This can be shorter or longer than the incubation period, implying that an asymptomatic person may be able to transmit the virus. Both of these factors are crucial to effective quarantine management, but COVID-19 is a new coronavirus, and much remains unknown about its transmission parameters and dynamics.

While the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the incubation period of COVID-19 could be up to 14 days, this upper limit was actually observed for a small proportion of cases of SARS. In the context of an accelerating COVID-19 epidemic and growing uncertainty, a higher upper limit (possibly 21 days) for the incubation period seems reasonable and warranted in the interest of adequately protecting the public.

Quarantine measures separate and restrict the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease, so as to provide appropriate care if they become ill, and to protect the public from infection. Discharging someone from quarantine before the end of the actual incubation period of the disease can prove disastrous, if that person subsequently develops the disease while not contained. We must get the upper limit of the incubation period right, or we could defeat the purpose of quarantining.

One study from China reported an upper limit of 24 days for the COVID-19 incubation period, but the WHO commented that this "can reflect a double exposure" or "outliers," and that the "outlying observation" of 24 days "needs to be taken seriously" but in the "context of all of the other studies."

So, the 14-day incubation period remains in effect. According to the CDC, the "symptoms of COVID-19 may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 days after exposure." However, even if we consider the reported single-study upper limit of 24 days to be an outlier observation, and hence unlikely to be encountered in the U.S., the odds may soon swing, with the repatriation of about 400 U.S. citizens from aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

These U.S. citizens were potentially exposed to COVID-19, as noted by the CDC. The time that these U.S. citizens spent in quarantine on the cruise ship will not count toward their U.S. quarantine time, as there was active transmission of COVID-19 aboard that cruise ship, and hence no certainty as to when exposure could have occurred.

Recent news that an 83-year-old American woman recently tested positive for COVID-19 in Malaysia after disembarking from the cruise ship Westerdam in Cambodia, also reinforces the need to seriously rethink the adequacy of the current 14-day quarantine period, as well as monitoring and screening procedures and mechanisms. The woman was aboard the cruise ship for more than 14 days, was reportedly asymptomatic at the time of disembarking, and hence was not tested for COVID-19 in Cambodia when she traveled by air to Malaysia. Of note, her 85-year-old husband with whom she was traveling has since twice tested negative for COVID-19.

Around 200 passengers from the Westerdam have returned to their home countries via Malaysia and Thailand, and none manifested symptoms of COVID-19 before departing Cambodia. Nonetheless, there are heightened concerns about further spread of the disease internationally, but this can be tempered by the report that the woman's husband is not infected, strongly suggesting that she was asymptomatic aboard the cruise ship, and not infectious enough to transmit the virus.

The WHO and CDC continue to take a careful and evidence-based approach in responding to the COVID-19 epidemic, which is commendable. Currently, the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for the general public in the U.S. is low. But this is likely not the end of the debate about quarantining, and the delicate balance between "civil liberties" and "the greater good."

Rossi A. Hassad, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist, and professor at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology, and a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, U.K.

last updated 02.19.2020

Well that’s just it. Yes it is a very fast spreading flu, but as a Caucasian in good health I’m just not worried about it. I may puke my fucking guts out and feel like death, and it wouldn’t be the first time

How many Caucasian’s have died?

our state is now run by liberal women.

They need to keep that shit under the bridge...

Liberal trolls at it again.