Pentagon adds to list of bases that can house passengers quarantined for coronavirus

[Elderberry]

Military Times by Patricia Kime 2/7/2020

 The Pentagon has identified military installations that can provide housing for quarantined passengers traveling to the U.S. through 11 major airports screening for the coronavirus from China.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is expected to OK a Department of Health and Human Services request to supply additional housing and support for quarantined individuals, according to a Department of Defense release issued Thursday.

The list includes Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, near Honolulu International Airport; Great Lakes Training Center Navy Base, near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in Illinois; Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas, near Dallas Fort Worth International Airport; Dobbins Air Reserve Base, near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Fort Hamilton, New York, for John F. Kennedy International Airport; Naval Base Kitsap, close to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Joint Base Anacostia for passengers traveling through Dulles International Airport in Virginia; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, for Newark Liberty International Airport; and Fort Custer Training Center near Detroit Metro.

The list is in addition to locations already providing housing to quarantined Americans who have fled Wuhan and Hubei province in China where the virus originated. Those bases include March Air Reserve Base, Travis Air Force Base and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California; Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.

 Another potential site named earlier by Esper is the 168th Regiment, Regional Training Institute at Fort Carson, Colorado.

The new sites would only be used if HHS facilities designated as quarantine zones become filled. Pentagon officials called them tertiary locations that would have the ability to house up to 20 people.

More: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/02/06/pentagon-adds-to-list-of-bases-that-can-house-passengers-quarantined-for-coronavirus/

[Fishrrman]

Sounds like they're planning to house a lot more... "guests"...

[txradioguy]

Can someone explain to me why they have to quarantine these people in the U.S. instead of say back in China?

[kevindavis007]

1. Wise move
2. If you in China, you should be barred from entering in the US or at least stay in quarantine for a bit.

[darroll]

Some go in the hospital, then go home.
Are we being bamboozled again.
Or if they raise our taxes and everyone smiles, then it goes away.