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According to the Washington Post[0], it wasn't caught at the airport, and he isn't a traveller, he is a resident in the Seattle area returning from China. > Wa
by bart_spoon 7y ago
According to the Washington Post[0], it wasn't caught at the airport, and he isn't a traveller, he is a resident in the Seattle area returning from China.
> Washington state health officials said the man, a resident of Snohomish County, Wash., returned from a trip to the region around Wuhan, where the outbreak began. He arrived at Seattle’s international airport last Wednesday. Shortly afterward, he began feeling ill and reached out to his health-care provider on Sunday. Local, state and federal officials quickly collected samples and sent them to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where his case was confirmed Monday as the coronavirus
Officials say they are trying to track down people he may have had contact with. Sounds like he was on top of things, and so they identified things as quickly as possible, but the disease is not necessarily contained.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/01/21/coronavirus-us-case/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/01/21/coronavirus...
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoHmm. The Reuters article says the same. Either it was updated, or I misread it. So... yeah. Maybe not so contained.
- incompatible 7y ago> he isn't a traveller, he is a resident in the Seattle area returning from China. A traveller is somebody who travels, e.g., from Seattle to China and back.
- bart_spoon 7y agoThe implication seemed to be that it was someone passing through, as opposed to a resident. But yes, my read could have been wrong.
- incompatible 7y agoIt confused me a bit on initial reading because a non-traveller in Seattle would have to have caught it there.