Edhat Staff
Diamond Princess seen from Mount Asama around port of Toba in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan circa 2004 (Photo: Wikipedia)
By edhat staff
Camp Roberts in San Luis Obispo was ruled out Sunday for being a location to isolate cruise ship passengers infected with the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The California National Guard post, located on both sides of the Salinas River in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, was notified on Sunday by state and federal authorities to prepare for the possibility of housing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Officials stated the passengers who test positive for COVID-19 no longer require hospitalization but will need to remain isolated for the mandatory 14-day period.
Late Sunday evening the County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Officer received notice that federal authorities no longer consider Camp Roberts a potential site to house any returning travelers who may or may not be infected with the novel coronavirus.
Health Officer Dr. Penny Borenstein said, “We remain prepared to work with federal and state partners should future decisions turn back to Camp Roberts as a resource.”
The cruise ship has been docked in isolation off the coast of Japan since February 5 after a passenger tested positive for the coronavirus on February 1. The ship carries approximately 3,700 passengers, about 400 are Americans with 14 who tested positive for the virus.
The infected passengers were instead flown to Lackland in Texas and Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento, California. There were 13 infected evacuees that were then flown to Omaha, Nebraska to receive care at the University of Nebraska Medical Center although it’s not clear why the other infected evacuee wasn’t among them.
The virus was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and continues to expand with 73,332 confirmed cases. There are 15 confirmed cases in the United States with 60 pending test results.
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I don’t even want this cruise ship anywhere near our coastal waters. These ships are permitted to dump “treated” sewage into the oceans, and how effective that treatment is should be seriously questioned. I hope whatever agency responsible for overseeing this floating Petri dish forces the ship to dispose of its waste on-land using the most powerful oxidizers available.
Word has it the Diamond Princess is sailing from Japan to Santa Barbara due to the great climate & State Street nightclubs. Get ready.
Oh, come on now! What could possibly go wrong with a little dump in the harbor, Chemicalsuperfreak?
Check out the CDC Vessel Sanitation program before you spread your own brand of unfounded hysteria, ChemFreak. CDC Inspections are random and very, very tough. And all results are public with a grade ranking system. All above board. Your local day care centers are the real petri dishes. Cancel those.
My company has initiated countermeasures for the virus. The virus appears to be spreading like gangbusters in the right environments. It’s only a matter of time at this point before we’re dealing with it here. China is in bad shape, and it will probably only get worse for them. Ships are getting stacked up in ports because they cannot be offloaded.
Still waitin’ for the Zika, Ebola, Sars to come get me first! It started in a secret Chinese lab… No, it started in a market selling animal carcasses offensive to Americans… or wait, did it? Maybe it started in a secret Chinese lab next to the animal carcass market? But it’s coming to a port near you! Be afraid!!!! Oh and hey, this pharmaceutical lab has a vaccine to sell to you.
Wonder if SB officials will look at this an opportunity to now ban cruise ships stops in SB?? If so, there goes what left of State Street business
SUPERFREAK… you know the City of Santa Barbara dumps treated sewage into the ocean too, doncha? The outfall pipe is just a few hundred yards out from the end of Stearns Wharf. Please do yourself a favour and read up on municipal sewage waste disposal, you’ll sound more intelligent and better advised if you do.
SUPERFREAK, you do know thousands of local vagrants dump their wastes daily into our creeks and rivers flowing untreated directly into our ocean, don’t you? Yet our city continues to encourage more to come here and refuses to even consider this is a health and safety crisis impacting the rest of us. Why is your concern only about heavily regulated cruise ships, who only occasionally visit, yet you ignore this immediate vagrant camp assault happens every single day?
Not to mention the hordes of tourists who clog our streets – buying plastic trinkets made overseas. The whole cruise tourism industry is a mess. Not benefiting the locals unless they own a business selling trinkets made overseas.
There is nothing even remotely funny about posting lies about something this serious, especially when the Westerdam is in fact going to stop here on a coastal cruise this year. Course it will likely be one of the cleanest ships out there.
Good updates: https://twitter.com/ai6yrham?lang=en
Keep your hands away from your face, particularly your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue.
Flu mortality rate is 0.1%. CoVid19 mortality rate is ~2%. Actual numbers doesn’t mean much unless you think both diseases have affected the same number of people.
Good points 22224. To add to your list, the intake pipe for our desalinated water is close to the outfall pipe for sewage.
More Cases of Coronavirus in California, on Edhat, Feb. 3, had lots of good advice and information. It had 29,326 reads and 152 comments…our own way of going viral: https://www.edhat.com/news/more-cases-of-coronavirus-in-california
It’s getting closer .
Things to wash: My car steering wheel, my kitchen countertop where I put my grocery cloth bags (that have been on the grocery store counter with many other peoples cloth bags before mine).
7,000 people in California have been asked by the California Department of Public Health to isolate and monitor themselves “careful watch” for coronavirus symptoms, S.F. Chronicle newspaper.
“While the govts of USA & China accuse one another of having liars in their media, & of fomenting conspiracies, the entire world is facing a true pandemic that threatens to spiral wildly out of control. COME ON USA & PRC — shut up with the tit-for-tat & work together to save All.” Good info & updated daily: https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett
Sewerage systems shared, apt dwellers beware (see video at 3:54). Dr. John Campbell’s videos daily are the best and W.H.O. Director is a fan and gave him a shout out yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0mt-vtqRC0
Cruise ships partial list, coming to S.B. 4-Mar-2020 –Amadea Phoenix.
24-Mar-2020 –Grand Princess Princess Cruises.
6-Apr-2020 –Eurodam Holland America.
8-Apr-2020 –Star Princess Princess Cruise.
24-Apr-2020 –Volendam Holland America.
27-Apr-2020 –Oosterdam Holland America.
28-Apr-2020 –Maasdam Holland America.
6 Ways to Prepare for a Pandemic: https://www.moneycrashers.com/prepare-next-pandemic/
County of S.B. Health Department. Any news? Board of Supervisors, any news? Advice? Suggestions? Anything? How about a weekly update news conference, please, with all our officials in front of the cameras telling us what they are doing. Das? Mayor Murillo? Fire Chief. OEM?
According to the CDC, in the 2018-2019 flu season 42.9 million people got sick, 647,000 were hospitalized, and 61,200 died. If COVID-19 were as widespread as the flu, that would be about 13 million hospitalized (but the U.S. has less than 1 million hospital beds and most are filled) and over 1 million dead. COVID-19 is more contagious than the flu … the only thing keeping it from being as widespread are the current efforts to contain it.
How many hospital beds, that could be in quarantine, does Santa Barbara have?
China produces most ingredients for our U.S. medicines. If you need an important prescription re-filled, while supplies are still available, do so.
Update (excellent) here, and will there be Olympics in Japan? https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett
Pandemic, be prepared to treat at home, scroll down: https://www.moneycrashers.com/prepare-next-pandemic/
Brace yourself. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 fell close to 3% in late-morning trading (2/25), following the CDC’s announcement today that Americans should prepare for the coronavirus to potentially spread in their communities.