This is why the spread of the disease went unchallenged 6 weeks prior to the nursing home outbreak. What a cluster-F of a response.
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He said "the alarm bells" sounded when he saw how the outbreak was being addressed at San Francisco International Airport.
"They literally had no idea what they were doing," he said, adding that one airport official even admitted that since things had escalated so quickly they were in disarray.
As passengers got off the plane, no one was at the gate to record their temperatures, he said. (One of the symptoms of the disease is a fever, though a few cases are asymptomatic.)
He also said no one was wearing masks.
It took him hours to go through customs, get his temperature taken at customs, and fill out paperwork. The man said the paperwork that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave him was handwritten and then photocopied.
People returning from China were taken from the immigration gate to a designated area to have their temperature taken. But since neither he nor his family members exhibited any symptoms or felt sick, they weren't tested for COVID-19.
Passengers coming from China had to wait in "the little black room" in the airport, typically used for passengers with visa problems, he said.
The Bay Area resident said immigration officials didn't wear any sort of protection and were impatient with people, telling them to stop asking questions when they inquired about the wait time.
"It was really not a good experience at that point," he said.
If he had returned from China's Hubei province, he would have been given a government-mandated quarantine.
But what he was given instead was a verbal recommendation to stay home and avoid going in public for 14 days. CDC officials also gave passengers cards with guidelines about how to self-quarantine and told him to give it to a primary-care doctor, should he visit one.
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Coronavirus-realistic fear or hyped?
