Posted on 02/22/2020 9:27:29 AM PST by blam
President Trump was furious that 14 Americans infected with the coronavirus returned to the United States without his permission rather than remain in quarantine overseas, according to a new report.
Trump had been briefed that the healthy U.S. passengers who spent weeks quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan would be allowed to fly home on two chartered planes -- while those who were sick or infected would stay in Japan to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
The president became "furious" with senior advisers after learning the 14 Americans who tested positive had been put on a plane with healthy passengers, according to The Washington Post. One official told the paper that the failure to inform Trump of the decision in advance of the plane's departure was a “big operational mistake.”
Trump complained that bringing home the infected Americans could damage the adminstratration's response to the global health outbreak.
While the Americans evacuated from the ship were on buses on the tarmac in Tokyo, U.S. officials got the results back that 14 had tested positive for COVID-19 but had not yet shown symptoms. Officials made the decision to have them fly home anyway, but “isolated” from the other passengers on the plane.
“These individuals were moved in the most expeditious and safe manner to a specialized containment area on the evacuation aircraft to isolate them in accordance with standard protocol,” the State Department and Department of Health and Human Services said in a joint statement Monday.
“After consultation with HHS officials … the State Department made the decision to allow the 14 individuals, who were in isolation, separated from other passengers, and continued to be asymptomatic, to remain on the aircraft to complete the evacuation process.”
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or u could use a specialized container which they did
I keep telling my poor, obese self that...
I’m pretty sure he already knows that.
If your link is true, we need Trump to address the nation. Hopefully those are fake tweets.
I think the quoted lines come from an early study/strain and do seem at odds with the present strain, i guess because it has mutated once again so everything changes - which is not good news for any putative vaccine 1-1.5 years from now
https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1231037774947594240
Seventy CONFIRMED, just at Travis.
We only ‘ackhowledge’ 35 right now.
Why the lies?
I’m with DJT. Flying the sick ones with the healthy ones is not too smart either.
Exactly. Many laugh at China’s lies about covid-19, but I’m struggling to see how our gov is any better.
The American people sure are patient and put up with quite a bit.
ARCHIVES OF QUARANTINES, “SELF IMPOSED” QUARANTINES AND PEOPLE BEING “MONITORED” GOING ON IN THE U.S. HERE
>#BREAKING: The city of Costa Mesa is seeking to block the transfer of up to 70 confirmed coronavirus patients from near Sacramento to the former Fairview Development Center cbsloc.al/2vXY2K0 pic.twitter.com/uSG767VhpH
http://archive.is/1CrWE
>KC health officials monitoring nearly 10 people for coronavirus
http://archive.is/GMmfN
>13 Americans moved to Omaha facility from evacuation flights, US officials say
http://archive.is/koqiL#selection-1132.0-1132.1
>26 people quarantined in Westchester County as a coronavirus precaution
http://archive.is/gXIck#selection-3149.0-3149.71
>BREAKING: Close to 200 Georgia residents are being monitored for coronavirus
http://archive.is/czVQP#selection-1397.0-1397.76
>With cruise ship evacuees, Lackland coronavirus quarantine grows to 234
http://archive.is/5uq4H#selection-1063.0-1063.71
>325 Michiganders monitored for coronavirus as nation preps for ‘likely’ spread
http://archive.is/wip/P63N4
>More than 700 people in Washington under public health supervision for coronavirus
http://archive.is/7Xph3#selection-1639.26-1639.117
>More than 5,400 people had been asked to self-quarantine in California alone as of Feb. 14, according to the California Department of Public Health.
http://archive.is/cH7h7#selection-2143.0-2143.149
>Nearly 7,000 travelers in CA asked to monitor, isolate themselves: Federal officials suggested to more than 6,700 travelers who have returned to California after Feb. 2 from China, outside of Hubei Province, to “monitor their health, stay home and limit interactions with others as much as possible,” California Department of Public Health officials said.
http://archive.is/h99iC#selection-3201.0-3203.289
I would not underestimate the lengths they would go to.
Sorry, the coronavirus in Florida is a state secret
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200207/cerabino-sorry-coronavirus-in-florida-is-state-secret
Yeah really, airliner cabin air is the biggest facilitator for spreading flu virus.
Insane what they did.
oh, oh , we seem to have a problem.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of truth in what you asked.
It’s to make sure we spread it far and wide before ‘we’ realize it’s a problem.
It’s to make sure it becomes a fait accompli.
It’s not paranoia considering all that has been revealed about them.. I used to be furious at Truthers.. no longer.
“Nobody knows until everybody knows.”
Yup.
Once t hey’ve gotten THEIR family and people ‘taken care of’ and supplied...then they’ll tell the rest of us.
You cannot isolate people on an airplane. Especially if the virus is air borne. You would need an airplane designed and built specially for level 4 protocols.
Innocent people were most likely infected during this operation.
Right. Even the pilots were exposed.
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