The Coronavirus Outbreak in Washington State

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A strategy of containment was supposed to protect Washington State from the coronavirus. It didn’t. So what led to the first major outbreak of the pathogen in the United States? Guests: Mike Baker, a Pacific Northwest correspondent for The New York Times and Bridget Parkhill, a woman whose 77-year-old mother is on lockdown inside a coronavirus-affected nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: A cruise ship off San Francisco has 21 sick passengers on board and is linked to California’s first death from the virus. In the Seattle area, schools have closed, tech workers have been told to work from home and a nursing facility is on lockdown. Here are the latest updates.Officials in California, Oregon and Washington State have said that some patients tested positive for the coronavirus without a known explanation for how they became ill, raising concerns that the virus may be spreading faster than previously thought.We spoke to six Americans with coronavirus. Here’s what they said about their experience while sick.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.
0:10.2	Today, a strategy of containment was supposed to protect Washington State from the coronavirus.
0:18.1	It didn't. Mike Baker, on what led to the first major outbreak in the US?
0:32.1	It's Thursday, March 5.
0:38.8	Mike, tell me about how this outbreak in Washington State starts.
0:43.3	So it really began January 20th.
0:45.2	Tonight, the CDC is confirming the first case in the US of a new and deadly coronavirus.
0:49.9	A man in Washington State has the same virus that has sickened about 300 people in China,
0:55.4	killing at least six.
0:56.8	That was when the officials here announced that the first case of coronavirus in the United States
1:04.3	was in Washington State. It was in Northeasy, Adolf. There was a man in his 40s who had been
1:09.3	traveling to the Wuhan region in China. He had come back. He had developed symptoms after he returned
1:15.9	to the United States. As kind of a savvy guy, he certainly made the connection that he was potentially
1:22.2	infected with the coronavirus and presented himself at a health clinic in the area to ask for some help.
1:28.0	And what happens to him? How has he treated?
1:30.2	Officials there, the doctors take a sample. They're sending it off to the CDC. There's certainly an
1:34.7	awareness this very likely could be a case. He ends up being taken to the hospital and quarantined
1:40.4	there in a special portion of the hospital. At that point, you have health officials sort of
1:45.4	tracking down who was he on the plane with when he returned. How did he get from the airport
1:50.0	back to his house? What was he doing in the hours and days after he landed? So there's a huge
1:55.6	effort just to find out who might have been in contact with him to make sure that this wasn't
1:59.5	going to be spreading further.
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