Monday, February 10, 2020

40,625/910. Outbreak still progressing. I will list below the quarantine centers associated with the various funneled airports: JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii (HNL) Great Lakes Training Center Navy Base, Illinois (ORD) Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas (DFW) March ARB, California (LAX) Travis AFB, California (SFO) Dobbins ARB, Georgia (ATL) Fort Hamilton, New York (JFK) Naval Base Kitsap, Washington (SEA) Joint Base Anacostia, Washington DC (IAD) Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey (EWR) Fort Custer Training Center, Michigan (DTW) The Department of Defense already has quarantine centers at Fort Carson in Colorado, Travis Air Force Base and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California, and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. Ken Cucinnelli sends e-mail to Task Force saying that we should be much more aggressive in “mitigation” right now and not wait until outbreak in USA occurs. This triggers calls at HHS since it might look like HHS is not doing things correctly. Had a vigorous Task Force call at 4:00 PM to discuss merssaging and the fact that we need to prepare for mitigation. Ken Cuccinelli wants to prepare families and businesses to how they would respond to an outbreak. I pushed back saying that my experience with anthrax and the “duct tape” incident made me feel that this would inspire unnecessary panic or ridicule. We should prepare more forward-looking at the state and local health levels, not the family level. Infections on the Japanese Cruise ship up to 136. Sick people taken off and rest quarantined on ship. Question raised whether aerosol spread through ventilation system similar to spread of SARS in 2004 in Amoy Garden Apartment Complex in Hong Kong. 97 people die in China yesterday – most for a single day. CDC wants the airlines give them the contact information of passangers so that they can be tracked. Bob Redfield having trouble clearly articulating the process of converting from containment to mitigation. He is a good guy, but Bob is Bob. Azar/HHS/and WH are all putting me out there to explain things within our group and to the press. Bob seems OK and modestly wants to learn. I like him. PRESS: CNN (Jim Sciutto); Diane Rehm Podcast; Sean Hannity Radio Show; CNN International.