First Person In U.S. Tests Positive For Coronavirus By “Community Spread”
While the Coronavirus has killed hundreds of people over in China, people here in the US are still on edge because of the updated reports. According to the latest one, for the first time, a US patient has contracted the deadly virus with no clue as to where it came from!
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Here’s what we know: the California patient didn’t travel anywhere known to have the virus, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was also said that the patient wasn’t exposed to anyone known to be infected. What this means is that this could be the first US case of “community spread” of the virus, when the source of the infection is unknown.
The Solano County resident was taken to UC Davis Medical Center last week. However, the
person wasn’t tested for coronavirus until Sunday, according to a letter sent Wednesday to UC Davis staff and obtained by CNN. Dr. Dean Blumberg, an infectious disease specialist at UC Davis Medical Center said the mysterious nature of this case is significant.
“That suggests that the virus is out there in the community, and that means pretty much that everybody’s at risk,” he told CNN affiliate KCRA. “We don’t know who might be carrying it. We don’t know who we can get it from.”
As for whoever passed the virus to the UC Davis patient, “that other person probably exposed other people,” Blumberg said.
“And you have to realize that this virus is so new, that none of us have any immunity to it. So, anybody who’s exposed is at high risk of getting infected with this,” CNN quotes.
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