2/28/20
Oregon has 1st coronavirus case: elementary school employee
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first coronavirus case emerged on Friday, and the infected person worked at an elementary school in the Portland area, which will be temporarily closed, authorities said.
“The case was not a person under monitoring or a person under investigation. The individual had neither a history of travel to a country where the virus was circulating, nor is believed to have had a close contact with another confirmed case — the two most common sources of exposure,” the Oregon Health Authority said in a statement.
2/22/20
LoCO Staff / Thursday, Feb. 20 @ 4:21 p.m. / Health(UPDATE) Humboldt County Resident Diagnosed With Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
UPDATE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON:
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Community ‘Not at Risk,’ Says County Public Health Officer in Interview With the Outpost
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UPDATE, 5:37 p.m.: DHHS spokesperson Christine Messinger tells the Outpost that the Humboldt County person who has been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus had traveled to mainland China.
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Press release from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Service:
The Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services Public Health Branch has received confirmation from the California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of one case of COVID-19 in a Humboldt County resident. A close contact who has symptoms is being tested as well.
This marks the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in Humboldt County. Presently, the ill individuals are doing well and self-isolating at home, while being monitored for symptoms by the Public Health Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control Unit.
Close contacts of these individuals will also be quarantined at home and monitored for symptoms by Public Health staff. With the amount of foreign travel by county residents, including travel to China, it is not surprising that a case has emerged locally. Additional cases may occur either in returning travelers or their close contacts.
“It’s important to remember that the risk to the general public remains low at this time,” said Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich. “Despite the fact that Humboldt County now has a confirmed case of COVID-19, there is no evidence to suggest that novel coronavirus is circulating in the community at large.”
Frankovich added that transmission in the U.S. to date has been among close contacts and not among the general public.
2/15/20
Comment posted under this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cagrtLzMjA):
We have confirmed cases in buffalo ny, please help me get the truth out. My wife works at a hospital in buffalo. We have it in New York. People are coming into degraff and Millard Fillmore with it. Mostly UB college students and people from Canada.
2/4/20
China lab seeks patent on use of Gilead’s coronavirus treatment
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A state-run Chinese research institute has applied for a patent on the use of Gilead Sciences’ experimental U.S. antiviral drug, which scientists think could provide treatment for the coronavirus that has killed hundreds and infected thousands.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology of the China Academy of Sciences, based in the city where the outbreak is believed to have originated, said in a statement on Tuesday it applied to patent the use of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed by Gilead (GILD.O), to treat the virus.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week reported a coronavirus patient in the United States was found to show an improvement after taking Remdesivir, which is also used to treat infectious diseases such as Ebola.
Friday 1/31/20
Just heard (this Friday evening) on the local ABC Channel news that a man was diagnosed with Corona virus in San Jose, Calif.
Coronavirus: Bay Area’s 1st case confirmed in Santa Clara County, CDC says
Friday, January 31, 2020 5:00PM
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — The Bay Area’s first case of the coronavirus from China has been confirmed in Santa Clara County, officials say.
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The CDC says an adult male resident tested positive for the new coronavirus. He has been self-isolating since he returned from a trip to Wuhan on Jan. 24, officials say.
He has not been hospitalized and has not been very sick. He’s currently being treated as an outpatient and has come into contact with very few individuals since he’s been home, officials say.
Santa Clara County health officials say the patient will remain in self-quarantine at home while investigators begin to make contact with anyone with whom the patient came in contact.
Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s health officer, said that the list of potentially exposed persons is short and the people with whom he came into contact with are self-isolating at home for 14 days.
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