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volfanhill said:
Couldn’t access the article. Thank you.
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The infected passengers were not showing symptoms and were. quarantined on the plane in a plastic enclosure, the CDC has a pretty shallow reason for objecting.

It was like the worst nightmare,” said a senior U.S. official involved in the decision, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. “Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.”
The State Department won the argument. But unhappy CDC officials demanded to be left out of the news release that explained that infected people were being flown back to the United States — a move that would nearly double the number of known coronavirus cases in this country.
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volfanhill said:
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Ahh.. Here is the portion of the article that discussed it.

But as the buses idled, U.S. officials wrestled with troubling news. New test results showed that 14 passengers were infected with the virus. The U.S. State Department had promised that no one with the infection would be allowed to board the planes.
A decision had to be made. Let them all fly? Or leave them behind in Japanese hospitals?
In Washington, where it was still Sunday afternoon, a fierce debate broke out: The State Department and a top Trump administration health official wanted to forge ahead. The infected passengers had no symptoms and could be segregated on the plane in a plastic-lined enclosure. But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disagreed, contending they could still spread the virus. The CDC believed the 14 should not be flown back with uninfected passengers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...f54cae-5279-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
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Orangeburst said:
These were infected passengers. I suspect many quarantined passengers were negative. Dumb move.
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It's possible they were negative but given the daily rising numbers of cases on the ship and that there was no true quarantine in place it's safer for the general population to assume everyone from the ship is positive. That and the fact that some people could be positive and still test negative is another factor to consider.
 
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Coug said:
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It's possible they were negative but given the daily rising numbers of cases on the ship and that there was no true quarantine in place it's safer for the general population to assume everyone from the ship is positive. That and the fact that some people could be positive and still test negative is another factor to consider.
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I agree on the quarantine. Just do not agree that sick passengers were on same plane with people that were possibly not infected, regardless of the "plastic bubble".
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Meh. We allowed flights in and out with china three weeks after Wuhan closed.
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And who does that fall on? Are you incapable of criticizing him? I am not saying I agree with you, on some of this I do, but you do know who has the power to make the decisions you are asking for right? Call it what it is. You don’t like his handling of it.
 
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It still seems weird to me we have cases popping up here and there (around the globe), but outside of China, no widespread infection.
 
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