In an unprecedented step to stop a potential pandemic in the United States, thousands of Americans are voluntarily quarantining themselves.
While state and local health departments wrestled with how to manage residents who arrived in China or were in the country around the time coronavirus broke, many decided to self-quarantine.
Their decision was made out of an abundance of caution. (NBC News)
These are not people sick with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. They have had no fever and no cough, and they aren’t necessarily being tested for the virus.
Instead, they simply traveled in China within the past few weeks and have since been flagged by health officials at one of the 11 airports nationwide through which all U.S. citizens and their families flying from China are being routed. And now they’re being asked to stay home for 14 days — the maximum amount of time it’s thought to take to develop the illness after being exposed — limiting physical contact with others as much as possible and watching for symptoms.
Health officials insist that these people don’t pose health risks to their neighbors. On the contrary, reports have suggested that many travelers are going above and beyond to ensure they aren’t a source of any spread.
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“The travelers have all been very cooperative,” Dr. Sherlita Amler, health commissioner for Westchester County, New York, told NBC News. Her department is monitoring 26 people under self-quarantine.
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