JOINING
JOINING US. OUR TOP STORIES TONIGHT, THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS AND
CALIFORNIA, WE HAVE TEAM
COVERAGE, THE GOVERNOR
ANNOUNCED A PUBLIC HEALTH
EMERGENCY.
BUT TONIGHT WE ARE STARTING
WITH WHO IS IN AUBURN TONIGHT.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE
PATIENT WHO DIED?
>> Reporter: ACTUALLY IN
ROSEVILLE, THIS IS KAISER
ROSEVILLE, WHERE THE PATIENT
PASSED AWAY EARLY THIS MORNING,
WE UNDERSTAND THIS WAS AN
ELDERLY PATIENT WHO ALSO HAD
SOME UNDERLYING HEALTH PROBLEMS
OF THOSE ARE COUPLE OF
DIFFERENT RISK FACTORS, BOTH
THE ELEVATED AGE AND HAVING
EXISTING HEALTH PROBLEMS,
THOUGH SEVERAL THINGS THAT
PEOPLE ARE BEING WARNED TO LOOK
OUT FOR.
THIS WAS A PASSENGER FROM THE
GRAND PRINCESS, THAT IS NOT THE
CREW SHIP THAT EVERYONE TALKED
ABOUT THAT WAS DOCKED OVER IN
JAPAN, THIS WAS A CREWS THAT
WENT FROM SAN FRANCISCO DOWN TO
MEXICO, AND BACK.
AND THE PATIENT GOT SICK WHILE
ON THAT CREWS.
THEY LAID OUT A 14 DAY
TIMELINE, SO THE DEATH HAPPENED
JUST EARLY THIS MORNING BUT 14
DAYS AGO, WHILE ON THAT CREW
SHIP, WAS WHEN AS PER -- THIS
SYMPTOM OR THIS VICTIMS ARE
SHOWING SYMPTOMS.
THE PATIENT IS OFF THE SHIP,
GOES BACK HOME TO ROCK AND AND
ACTUALLY, FOR THE BETTER PART
OF A WEEK, IS AT HOME BUT THEN
THE SYMPTOMS GOT WORSE. ON
FAIRBURY 27 THERE WAS A CALL TO
911, AMBULANCE TO THE PATIENT
DOWN HERE, TO THE ER, HERE AT
KAISER ROSEVILLE, AND THEY
ADMITTED THE PATIENT THEN.
THREE DAYS LATER, THEY FOUND OR
THEY ORDERED A TEST, TOOK THE
SAMPLE, RATHER, FROM THE
PATIENT, SEND IT OFF TO THE LAB
AND JUST YESTERDAY, THOSE
RESULTS CAME BACK.
I DID ASK THE HEALTH OFFICIALS
WHY THE DELAY, THEY SAID THEY
PUSHED BACK ON THE IDEA THAT IT
WAS A DELAY, BUT POINTED OUT
THAT THERE WAS A CHANGE IN THE
PROTOCOL FROM THE CDC ABOUT
WHAT TEST SHOULD BE PASSED
ALONG IN WHICH IS NOT, AND
ULTIMATELY, BECAUSE OF THE TIME
THIS PATIENT WALKED THROUGH THE
DOOR, MEXICO CRUISES WERE NOT
ON THE LIST, THAT DID NOT
HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY WHEN THE
PATIENT CAME IN, IT WAS A
COMBINATION OF THAT AND THE
SYMPTOMS THAT THEY WERE SHOWING
BUT EVENTUALLY THE TEST GETS
ORDERED AND THEN WE HAD THIS
RESOLVED AFTERWARD.
DUE TO THE CHANGING TESTING
GUIDELINES.
WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE
SOME 15 WORKERS AND COURTING
RIGHT NOW, FIVE OF THEM FIRST
RESPONDERS, 10 WORKERS HEAR
FROM KAISER, WE ARE TOLD NOT OF
THEM ARE SYMPTOMATIC AT THIS
POINT BUT AS A PRECAUTION THEY
ARE BEING HELD ON HOME
QUARANTINE RIGHT NOW.
THEY ALL CAME INTO CONTACT WITH
THIS PATIENT BEFORE THEY WERE
MOVED INTO AN ISOLATION UNIT
HERE AT THIS HOSPITAL.
AND ULTIMATELY, THAT PATIENT
DID PASS AWAY.
LOSING THESE HEALTHCARE WORKERS
OBVIOUS THE PUTS A BIT OF A
STRAIN ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
BUT THE IDEAS HOPEFULLY THAT
THEY WILL BE IN QUARANTINE NOT
DEVELOPING THE SYMPTOMS AND BE
ABLE TO GET BACK TO WORK.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE
IS A RISK TO OTHER PATIENTS
HERE AT KAISER ROSEVILLE, THEY
THINK THAT ISOLATED THE
UNIVERSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAD
CONTACT WITH THE PATIENT BEFORE
THEY WERE REALLY BEING TAKEN
THE PROACTIVE MEASURES.
THEY ALSO SAID THAT THEY DON'T
BELIEVE THERE'S ANY COMMUNITY
SPREAD IN PLASTER COUNTY, THEY
WERE VERY CLEAR THAT THEY
BELIEVE THIS IS A TRAVEL
RELATED CASE BUT ALSO THAT THEY
BELIEVE PLASTER COUNTY WILL
EVENTUALLY HAVE COMMUNITIES
BEING SPREAD, THAT IT WILL BE A
MATTER OF TIME AND THEY WANT
PEOPLE TO BE PREPARED TO STAY
HOME, IF NEEDED, FOR AS MUCH AS
14 DAYS.
AT THIS TIME THEY'RE NOT
LOOKING AT CANCELING PUBLIC
EVENTS, THEY ARE NOT LOOKING AT
CLOSING DOWN SCHOOLS, ANYTHING
LIKE THAT BUT IT IS AN OPTION
AND IF THEY WERE TO DECIDE
THAT.
IT IS REALLY JUST A PRECAUTION
AT THIS POINT AS THEY EVALUATE
THIS CASE AND TRY TO TRACK AND
ALL THE FOOTSTEPS OF THIS
PARTICULAR PATIENT WHO DIED
THIS MORNING.
>> A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORY.
BRANDON SAAD IS OFF.
INTO THIS, AND THE LAST HOUR,
GOV.
GAVIN NEWSOM UPDATED THE FIGHT
AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS AND
ANNOUNCED THAT PUBLIC HEALTH
EMERGENCY WEEK.
I WANT TO GO TO OUR ABC VAN,
TO.
>> Reporter: OF COURSE THE
GOVERNOR DECLARED A STATE OF
EMERGENCY, AND HE REALLY
EMPHASIZES THAT THIS DECISION
IS NOT MEANT TO ALARM BUT
RATHER, IT IS A DECISION MEANT
TO FREE UP THE STATE AND
RESOURCES TO HELP MITIGATE THE
SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS.
THIS NEWS COMING JUST HOURS
AFTER THAT STATES FIRST
REPORTED DEATH, A PLASTER
COUNTY MAN, AN ELDERLY MAN,
WITH UNDERLYING CONDITIONS WHO
WAS ON THAT GRAND PRINCESS
CREWS, THAT WENT TO MEXICO, AND
CAME BACK ON FEBRUARY 21.
NOW THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER
PASSENGER WHO WAS ON THAT SHIP
THAT WAS ALSO CONFIRMED TO HAVE
CORONAVIRUS FROM SONOMA COUNTY.
NOW THAT MANIFESTS OF THE SHIP
HAS BEEN SHARED WITH THE STATE
SO THAT COUNTY HEALTH OFFICIALS
CAN CONTACT EVERYONE WHO WAS ON
BOARD THAT SHIP.
NOW HERE IS THE INTERESTING
PART, THAT SAME SHIP ALSO WENT
TO HAWAII AND WAS SCHEDULED TO
ARRIVE BACK IN SAN FRANCISCO
THIS EVENING.
THE GOVERNOR SAYS THAT THAT
SHIP, THE GRAND PRINCESS, IS
NOW HELD BACK OFF THE COAST
ABOUT A DAY'S TRAVEL, AND THE
STATE REALLY WANTS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THEY CAN ASSESS THOSE
PASSENGERS BECAUSE THEY DON'T
WANT THAT SHIP TO BE IN THE
PORT, THE GOVERNOR SAYS THAT IT
IS CONCERNING BECAUSE 11
PASSENGERS AND 10 CREW ARE
SHOWING SYMPTOMS.
>> AS A CONSEQUENCE, WE ARE
GOING TO BE FLYING TESTING KITS
TO THE CRUISESHIP, AND WE ARE
GOING TO BE SETTING THOSE
QUICKLY BACK TO THE STATE, AND
PRIMARILY, TO RICHMOND, LAB,
WHERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO TEST
VERY QUICKLY AND WITHIN JUST A
FEW HOURS, THOSE SAMPLES, TO
DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THESE
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE SYSTEMATIC
JUST HAVE TRADITIONAL COLD OR
FLU, OR MAY HAVE CONTRACTED THE
COVID19 VIRUS.
>> Reporter: THE GOVERNOR SAYS
UNLIKE A WEEK AGO, THE STATE
DOES HAVE ENOUGH TESTING KIT,
HE SAYS THERE ARE ABOUT 9000
AND 500 TEST KITS AVAILABLE TO
THE STATE, SO HE SAYS IT WILL
TAKE A FEW HOURS FOR THOSE TEST
KITS TO BE FLOWN OUT TO THAT
GRAND PRINCESS SHIP, SO HE