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@singingsox @moira228 @ZNursinga I was going to say… masking for “respiratory virus season” was record short this year. And their chief of infection control is notoriously anti-masking and a Covid minimizer.

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@JeremyKonyndyk And I believe Trump just banned experts from the U.S. (presumably those working for the government) from communicating with the WHO. Disgusting reckless behavior.

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@MackayIM @RickABright I saw it reported that the initial samples were transported to Kinshasa at the wrong temperature and thus weren’t able to be tested. USAID used to handle this type of transport.

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@CDCgov It’s 42 days quarantine. If they’re allowed to go home it better not be on commercial airlines and they better be quarantining at home with state and CDC career staff oversight.

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@RickABright Are they aware the Congolese team made the World Cup and will be playing in the US? Also, that people from all over the world will be coming here for said event in a few weeks? Maybe rejoin the WHO, resurrect USAID (instead of ballrooms and slush funds), and bring back ID R&D.

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@HemiHimalayan @outbreakupdates Ugh, incompetent person in charge of BC public health? Does she believe in terrain theory over germ theory like RFK Jr? I was considering a move to Canada - specifically Vancouver, but it seems like this issue goes beyond the US.

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@stone3Clare @janekin24 @HemiHimalayan @outbreakupdates Or the funeral of patient zero?

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@ashishkjha @NikkiRomanik Premature to call the outcome. Hold off on declaring we got lucky. Plenty more time and exposures (the CDC hasn’t confirmed via its official channels this 41 number). Plus, the World Cup is happening before the 6 week mark.

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@sitnround @RVAwonk These people aren’t in negative pressure rooms. They’re just in rooms off a common hall with their own air supplies. Only the doctor who had a “mildly positive” test was in a negative pressure room elsewhere, but not anymore.

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@adamscochran @RVAwonk How do you know staff are wearing n95s? It’s absurd they’re not showing their thermometers and discussing symptoms over video. Now the doctor who tested positive once is on that unit. Are they just opening one door after the other, so aerosols are wafting into the hall? Reckless.

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@ibrake4ants @LazarusLong13 I don’t know why they’re not PCR testing everyone, at least for data, given they apparently validated PCR tests in Nebraska just for this. Every other country is doing periodic testing - we’re only doing it for symptomatic people.

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@RickABright @j_g_allen @ErinBurnett @OutFrontCNN I believe the cruise only started 4/1 and patient zero only developed symptoms 4/6, so it seems unlikely this was hantavirus given the incubation period. I agree that this information should have been disclosed earlier, though.

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@Tami1501 @emilylmullin @JulieAnderson41 @WIRED The doctor from OR who is the patient explained that the samples were taken on the ship and sent back with the sick patients they sent back earlier. It was May 3 samples that were tested in the Netherlands and he said one was negative and one “slightly positive”.

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@RogerSeheult I didn’t think anyone had left Nebraska yet. Certainly not Jake Rosmarin from Boston. Where did you get that he’s the only one still in Nebraska??

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@ClareCraigPath @j_g_allen Passengers on the ship (and people in the 2018 outbreak as described in NEJM) certainly didn’t all share bodily fluids. This is a respiratory pathogen spread through the air. You sound like you’re describing a hemorrhagic fever.

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@RaeMieA @AP Call the CDC (800-CDC-INFO) and your reps and say this. It sounds like RFK Jr is about to release them all.

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@quay_dr We gotta flood CDC and our congresspeople with calls. Already one of the asymptomatic US patients had a “mildly positive” (haha) PCR test per HHS and another is mildly symptomatic in flight. They must all quarantine as they’ve all been together.

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@jeremyfaust They should really bring the 7 others who have been in, too, as it seems like asymptomatic infection is a thing and we don’t know if they might be infectious. Would be great if we even had PCR testing for hantavirus in the US.

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@jeremyfaust They’d better keep them all at the quarantine center for 6-8 weeks, as all other countries are. They’ve been together and clearly people can be infected without meeting the CDC definition of “close contact” (sharing beds, saliva, etc). We must insist on this.

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@noahjacobmama @jeremyfaust Yes, that’s what I’m saying is NOT ok. They can change their mind.

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@noahjacobmama @jeremyfaust If you mean not all countries are(? Very nonspecific comment), then maybe the UK isn’t. But they may revise that given what’s happened on the French and US flights home.