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  • the risk for all of us of becoming infected will be increasing.

  • Also directed the Department of Health to declare a public health emergency There is no doubt that there will be mawr cases where we find people who test positive.

  • The novel Corona virus outbreak spreading across the world now hitting the United States from coast to coast.

  • Over 100 cases in more than a dozen states.

  • At least six people dead, the epicenter here in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.

  • All of the deaths have been in Washington state, with four of those victims.

  • At this nursing care facility, at least 14 residents have been diagnosed with the Corona virus, now called Cove in 19 calling Mallory's 89 year old mother, Peggy, who suffers from dementia, lives there.

  • If she gets sick, she's gonna be gone.

  • Um, but if she has to sit in a room for days on end by yourself, she's gonna go downhill fast.

  • With a couple pair of clean clothes and her mother's favorite cookies, she was able to visit her.

  • Do you feel better now that you've seen her, I do much better.

  • Yeah, you know.

  • But you know, almost every door on the opposite side of my mom's has a cautionary statement.

  • She thinks it's probable her mother was exposed to the virus.

  • They wouldn't tell me anything about a roommate who has been removed from the facility and my mom's been in the room with her.

  • For nursing homes or skilled nursing facilities represent a very vulnerable population of elderly people with chronic medical conditions that place them at higher risk.

  • There tends to be a almost revolving door environment at nursing homes, if you will, with ah, lot of patients on a regular basis being circulated, maybe from the nursing home, to a hospital briefly or from the outside community or a hospital in.

  • So that makes contact.

  • Tracing, very challenging.

  • 50 other residents and staff associated with the facility are now being evaluated.

  • We've just seen another person loaded up into this ambulance to be taken to the hospital.

  • Authorities announcing nearly 1/4 of the Kirkland Fire department is off the job.

  • After visiting the facility last week and tonight, 22 nursing students and faculty from a nearby college have been asked a self quarantine because they, too, are believed to have been exposed at the facility.

  • What we're seeing in Washington state is something that we need to be prepared will also occur in many other states in the country.

  • There's a lag or timeline delay in the time from when a patient is exposed to a virus till when they might start displaying symptoms, new research suggests.

  • The virus has been quietly spreading here for weeks, often by people without symptoms.

  • The incubation period of this novel, Corona virus, is unknown.

  • There have been documented cases that span from one to about 14 days, but there have also been confirmed cases as far out as 18 and rarely over even 20 days.

  • Even though the numbers have been rising, the White House task force sought to reassure anxious Americans.

  • If you talk about the entire country, the whole 360 million people in this country, the risk is a low risk.

  • The message was met with skepticism and apprehension, shoppers stocking up on necessities like wipes and water, leaving behind empty shelves.

  • Theo first confirmed case of Corona virus now in New York, in the nation's biggest city.

  • The first confirmed case, a woman who recently returned from Iran, people been heeding the warnings, going and getting tested, going again, checked on, and that's helped us to stay ahead of it.

  • Iran has been especially hard hit, with over 1500 Cobain 19 cases and at least 66 dead.

  • 37 of them are on the front line.

  • Is medical intern poor?

  • Yeah, Gandhi.

  • Any mom has seen hospital in Tehran.

  • There wasn't equipment in the hospital for doctors or nurses, but right now, because they take more precautions, they take it seriously.

  • The majority of the cases are in China, where the virus was first reported on December 31st.

  • In the past two months, Cove in 19 has spread to more than 60 different countries, infecting nearly 90,000 people.

  • In Paris.

  • The Luv shuttering for a second day, museum workers Concerned about exposure Some of Italy's most famous tourist sites from Milan to Rome, deserted American college students sent home from their studies in Italy, reuniting with their families.

  • But for some, finding a flight home hasn't been easy.

  • But we were asked to leave as soon as possible before anything got worse.

  • Currently, have about a 50 hour travel time get back into the states and It's been very happy, Dick.

  • I have a 13 hour layover also going home today, 140 passengers from the Diamond Princess Cruise ship After weeks in quarantine in California, over 700 cases originated on that ship.

  • The Diamond Princess was on a tour of Asia when the outbreak forced it to dock on the coast of Japan.

  • I think the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed us how transmissible this Corona virus is.

  • I also think the response, psychologically and emotionally, of how people fair when they are quarantined was important.

  • Some of the other passengers quarantine in Nebraska for cleared to leave, too.

  • Jerry Sorority Goldman in a demonstration of new virus manners, elbow bumping the Nebraska governor and the medical staff that health care for her You guys broke.

  • It has been quite intraday travail for you and the other travellers who have been here.

  • My husband, I are so blessed.

  • He was the one that ended up in the bio containment unit.

  • Jerry's husband, Carl Goldman, described his experience living with Corona virus in an op ed in The Washington Post.

  • He writes of nurses tending to him in heavy duty.

  • Has Matt suits sealed with duct tape.

  • Two cameras watched me at all times.

  • A set of computer monitors were equipped with microphones so that the medical staff and I could communicate with CDC officials at Central Command down the hall.

  • The room had last been used for the Ebola outbreak in 2014.

  • Despite the intense measures to guard his health, Goldman says he doesn't feel all that sick writing.

  • If I were at home with similar symptoms, I probably would have gone to work as usual.

  • Over 80% of confirmed cases of Corona virus were mild.

  • But again, that's not to say that some people will not have a more severe course.

  • And that's not to say, unfortunately, that some people won't die from this.

  • Fellow cruise ship passengers Melanie and John Herring have also been divided by quarantine, and I has 36 point way first started Skyping with a retired couple when they were still on the Diamond Princess Cruise ship, and it's beautiful.

  • Today is Day six and we're almost over the home.

  • But then John tested positive and was moved to a hospital in Japan.

  • Melanie was evacuated to Travis Air Force Base and has been quarantined for the last two weeks there.

  • I'm negative and I am so thrilled.

  • So, honey, we're going home.

  • I love you.

  • We'll bathe the happy days Here I am Free to go.

  • They didn't My release.

  • And I am gonna be coming back to the U S.

  • A so thrilled and so happy and, uh, and can't wait to put my arms around you.

  • This is the room I stayed in most the time today.

  • Melanie cleared out her quarters.

  • See you going home.

  • She left a note of thanks behind with an important post script.

  • Wash your hands and I'm really glad to get this behind us.

  • So a few hours later, at an airport in Utah for the couple who never imagined a vacation like this, Finally, they've made it home.

  • A kiss.

  • Hello to a new beginning.

  • Hi, everyone.

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