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A whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking federal protection after complaining that more than a dozen workers who received the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, lacked proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
The United States health workers who were assigned to meet the first cohort of evacuees from the coronavirus (COVID-19) hit Wuhan city in China were themselves exposed to the deadly virus, a whistleblower has alleged. What Happened The Department of Health and Human Services didn't provide protective gear to the workers or give them any infection-related training, a senior HHS official has alleged in a complaint filed with the Office of the...
A whistleblower claims HHS employees weren't prepared to work with evacuees, another Diamond Princess passenger has died, and more coronavirus news.
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Three other cruise ship evacuees who tested positive for the virus in Japan are still awaiting confirmatory results from the CDC.
Coronavirus: Diamond Princess evacuees released from Travis Air Force Base
Monday night, the Centers for Disease Control announced that evacuees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland who haven't had symptoms of the coronavirus for the required 14-day quarantine are now medically cleared to leave. The CDC also announced a change in their protocol; no person will be released from quarantine if there are any pending coronavirus test results. Some of those inside the quarantine at JBSA-Lackland spoke to KENS 5 Monday night....
“China is cheap for us, and we feel much safer there than we do in India.”
Coronavirus evacuees to be released from San Antonio quarantine Tuesday
More than 120 evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will be released from quarantine Tuesday through a modified protocol. The evacuees were scheduled to be released Monday before San Antonio officials declared a local public health emergency, then went to court and unsuccessfully sought a temporary restraining order to stop the federal government from lifting the quarantine. The CDC modified its protocol after the mistaken release of an...