201 Americans fleeing China's coronavirus are now in California. Here's what they face

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There have been only a handful of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the U.S., with one each in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Chicago, Arizona and Washington state. Yet the rapid spread of the virus in China has sparked alarm in the United States.

A plane evacuating 201 Americans from the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak landed Wednesday in Southern California.Officials say dealing with this situation has required a delicate balancing act, in part because of misinformation and ignorance about the flight and those on board.Advertisement

The passengers aren’t under an official quarantine, but Dr. Chris Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters during a news conference Wednesday that everyone on the flight seemed to be cooperating with the three-day hold. At the time of the flight’s boarding on Wednesday, Rear Adm. Nancy Knight, who’s with the CDC, said none of the passengers were deemed “high risk.”

“We try and balance how to protect these people, how to respect their rights, how to be the least restrictive possible, and still be very careful about evaluation they go under so that everybody is safe,” Braden said. “This is a balance. If we can do that without a federal quarantine order that restricts people and takes away their rights, that’s what we’ll do.”

 

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And the people who have it were trying to go to different countries and spread it why aren’t they arrested for trying to voluntarily cause harm to others this is ridiculous 💀 lil reapers walking round waiting for the plague to hit

2 weeks should be right so no one else in the U.S.A. will get that virus.

And yet the U.S arw still letting people travel here

I.. *only* & then *a handful*!

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