Right now, our government is “screening” people at several airports by asking questions and taking people’s temperature. Two big problems:
1. People lie 2. Not everyone who has this disease presents with a fever. Now they are seeing people who don’t have fevers until they become very ill.
So, we aren’t being very well protected on that front.
We’re in early stages, and it’s too easy to take a laissez-faire attitude, because you don’t want to offend or appear to take away someone’s freedom of movement.
I heard the incubation period is 2 weeks or less. Quarantine for that period and if ok then release.
Thinking this screening process through...
Wide body plane lands with 300 people from China.
They stand in line are are checked, one by one
As they’re each cleared, they leave the airport.
Along comes passenger number 237 in line, who immediately tests positive by fever, symptoms, regions in China visited and who spent time with sick family member before flying to the US.
He had been coughing in the airplane, which recirculates cabin air.
OOPS! We just cleared 236 previous passengers from that flight to leave the terminal into the US.
Let’s hope the screening process is better than this, because this is not contained.
Only question seemingly at this point is how bad is this virus