SAC BEE by Jason Pohl, Francesca Chambers, Darrell Smith, and Cathie Anderson 3/1/2020
The good news came on Feb. 18 for about 180 people who’d been holed up at the Westwind Inn, the on-site hotel at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. The two weeks in quarantine after their evacuation from China had crawled by as they interacted with a team of local, state and federal health officials.
On that Tuesday, most everyone who’d visited Wuhan was cleared to go home. A handful had been sent to local hospitals for monitoring. The others dispersed, many boarding flights from Sacramento to their homes throughout the U.S.
About the same time, two American evacuees from the Japan-docked Diamond Princess cruise ship were being admitted into isolation rooms at a Napa hospital. One traveler had tested positive for COVID-19, the other showed symptoms of the virus. In a radio interview that day, Feb. 18, a Napa County spokesman repeated the line that’s been trumpeted continuously in recent weeks, at least in the U.S.: For the public, there’s “minimal risk of exposure.â€
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