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It was in fact broken by the Times and it is an inside source talking to their reporter that we know it happened.
by eli 7y ago
It was in fact broken by the Times and it is an inside source talking to their reporter that we know it happened.
- zaroth 7y agoActually the Washington Post broke the story (according to the AP). According to the Washington Post, the people from the CDC who interacted with the quarantined patients all had full protective gear. Allegedly there were social workers from HHS also sent to help assist who were not trained in how to don full gear and so were wearing just masks and gloves. Note this all happened back at the end of January. So it seems unlikely that anyone was actually exposed, unless you think that there are HHS workers who got sick and it was kept out of the news.
- pulisse 7y ago> So it seems unlikely that anyone was actually exposed, unless you think that there are HHS workers who got sick and it was kept out of the news. That doesn't follow, both because the incubation period is now thought to be as long as 28 days and because infected individuals can be asymptomatic.
- zaroth 7y agoClinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China A study of 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 from 552 hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China through January 29, 2020. "The median incubation period was 4 days (interquartile range, 2 to 7)." New England Journal of Medicine, Feb 28, 2020 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032