New York City still quarantines people for tuberculosis, and Los Angeles has periodically enacted small-scale quarantines during measles outbreaks.
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For the moment, at least, mandatory quarantines remain a hypothetical in the United States — although some such quarantines are being implemented in other countries.
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A pandemic, quarantines and the death of half the population.
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Our government has broad power to order and enforce quarantines.
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And through remote workdays and quarantines, we stay connected online.
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They're already spending money on staff, supplies and mandated quarantines.
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When no restrictions came, Mr. DeSantis said, he ordered quarantines.
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The quarantines will take place at home or in groups.
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Historians have noted that quarantines have often targeted marginalized populations.
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Italy, Iran and China have initiated quarantines and restricted travel.
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The quarantines have forced schools, businesses, and restaurants to close.
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A 2014 bubonic plague scare resulted in quarantines in China.
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Why travel bans and quarantines might exacerbate the spread of coronavirus.
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There are plenty of examples of lesser-known patients violating quarantines.
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Multiple senators have had to miss votes due to self-quarantines.
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And there were new quarantines, regulations and cancellations across the globe.
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Cities and countries are responding with unprecedented quarantines and travel bans.
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Cities and countries are responding with mass quarantines and travel bans.
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Cities and countries are responding with mass quarantines and travel bans.
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The number can inform public-health measures, such as isolation and quarantines.
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With quarantines depressing consumption, whole industries are at risk of severe hits.
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In the past, quarantines were sometimes shunned for the sake of trade.
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Politicians respond, rationally or not, with travel bans, quarantines or trade blocks.
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That could mean quarantines, closed schools and cancelled events in your town.
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Many areas worldwide are now taking actions including quarantines and border restrictions.
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Meanwhile, Americans are growing more supportive of aggressive containment measures like quarantines.
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Will we begin to see quarantines imposed by federal or state leaders?
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At the height of the pandemic, quarantines were instituted in many cities.
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Were you on the Grand Princess or Diamond Princess during their quarantines?
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Breaks in supply chains, factory closings and worker quarantines have disrupted supplies.
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Here are the countries that have implemented mandatory mass quarantines so far.
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Italy has cancelled sporting events and implemented mandatory quarantines in some communities.
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At the height of the pandemic, quarantines were instituted in many cities.
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There's no evidence, they've said, that such large-scale quarantines will work.
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Travelers from mainland China to Hong Kong are required to undergo quarantines.
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Quarantines have been used to control the spread of disease since 1377.
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Forced vaccination, however, is more politically sensitive than quarantines or forced treatment.
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But outside experts can't enforce quarantines, close schools and prohibit forms of travel.
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Coronavirus quarantines are already severely impacting ride-sharing companies as consumers stay home.
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Elizabeth Goitein: Every state has laws authorizing mandatory quarantines, which are legally binding.
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Quarantines have often generated tensions between protecting public health versus respecting individual rights.
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Another 27.9 cities did both isolation/quarantines and school closures/public gathering bans.
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Now, more decisive actions, including extensive travel restrictions and quarantines, are being implemented.
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The power is not only to order quarantines, but also to enforce them.
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As novel coronavirus spreads, voluntary or involuntary home quarantines could become more common.
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Almost 1,000 Americans have faced or are currently facing mandatory 14-day quarantines.
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Stories of weeks-long quarantines for citizens traveling home have already made headlines.
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The SARS coronavirus incited worldwide panic and multiple quarantines throughout the early 2000s.
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From 2014-2016, multiple countries issued quarantines to prevent the spread of Ebola.
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U.S. Treasuries rallied as investors worried about the economic implications of increasing quarantines.
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U.S. Treasuries rallied as investors worried about the economic implications of increasing quarantines.
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All passengers were subject to 14-day quarantines starting the day they left China.
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Travel bans and quarantines are a centuries-old answer to the spread of disease.
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In particular, industries that rely on components from China could struggle with prolonged quarantines.
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Contagion fears and quarantines have made deliveries costly and tricky for Alibaba and others.
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There's also some question about whether travel restrictions and quarantines violate people's civil liberties.
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All kinds of public health measures and quarantines were tried, as the epidemic raged.
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The events: Quarantines in San Francisco's Chinatown followed multiple outbreaks in the 19th century.
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Public health officials will need to impose quarantines, businesses will need to cancel meetings.
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All 50 states also have laws enabling governors or other officials to order quarantines.
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Ideally, quarantines would be self-enforcing, and people subject to such orders would comply.
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But public health experts are generally not recommending widespread travel bans or mandatory quarantines.
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The 124 action items include travel bans, quarantines, surveillance steps, social distancing, and more.
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It could delay imports from the United States through elaborate customs inspections and quarantines.
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States need new powers to shut their borders, enforce quarantines and track infected people.
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China has introduced new hygiene requirements, imposed quarantines and restricted the transporting of swine.
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But, large-scale quarantines based on group determinations in emergencies can be overly broad.
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And the problem is coronavirus, for those quarantines to work, it's taken eight weeks.
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Quarantines involve isolating people who are at risk of infection or who are infected.
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In Sierra Leone, the national government tried to mandate social distancing, quarantines and testing.
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Other Chinese cities have strict quarantines for those who have recently been to Wuhan.
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Federal law authorizes the C.D.C. to impose quarantines, but the power is rarely used.
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They can also navigate tricky situations like quarantines and flight regulations, Mr. Huntington said.
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Passengers worry about restrictions they'll face on land, additional quarantines, and trips back home.
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Transmission beyond quarantines and travel restrictions could eventually stress hospitals, doctors and medical personnel.
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Quarantines have been used to prevent the spread of disease for hundreds of years.
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Here are some of the most prominent examples, and failures, of quarantines throughout history.
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In the United States, quarantines have had a history of targeting immigrants for isolation.
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They are under two-week quarantines at military bases in California, Texas and Nebraska.
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But the Chinese CDC expressed concern about what could happen after the quarantines end.
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"The Ebola quarantines were a really disproportionate response to a lot of fear," Kapczynski said.
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It's somewhat unrealistic that governments impose highly restrictive quarantines for several months at a time.
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In 2015 it finally implemented quarantines and shut down some of the most offensive Subreddits.
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Health officials can issue orders to make those quarantines mandatory and make violating them illegal.
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My great grandfather faced resistance to quarantines and such tactics are no more popular today.
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Tough restrictions on travel and quarantines soon went into place across much of the country.
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U.S. Treasuries rallied on Thursday as investors worried about the economic implications of increasing quarantines.
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Since then, quarantines have often generated tensions between protecting public health versus respecting individual rights.
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The power is not only to order quarantines or isolations, but also to enforce them.
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"I am not quite sure what happens if there are mass quarantines," Mr. Davis said.
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Even if the Stafford Act did provide for mandatory quarantines, it would likely be unconstitutional.
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That gave many businesses "inventory to play with," as factories went dark because of quarantines.
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She is concerned about the inconsistencies in the quarantines and school precautions in the area.
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Many factories in China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, remain closed due to mass quarantines.
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Travelers arriving from parts of China to other countries, including the U.S., may face quarantines.
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On Friday officials said quarantines would be extended for another week to contain the virus.
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It will also have a veterinary hospital and perform federally required quarantines and disease prevention.
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But counties usually have the legal authority to institute quarantines in times of public health emergencies.
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The need for quarantines is unclear, according to U.S. officials, because manufacturing processes often kill diseases.
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Most quarantines are 14 days — but studies have suggested that this might not be long enough.
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When international trade and travel were limited, quarantines hardly affected the course of the global economy.
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I've seen quarantines, lockdowns, long lines at medical, all because of one new sickness or another.
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We have ideas Quarantines might stop the virus, but they rely on people obeying the law.
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South African citizens returning from other some high-risk countries will be tested and face quarantines.
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Most Latin American leaders reacted quickly to the coronavirus, shutting down borders and enforcing quarantines early.
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They also imposed measures like steep fines for leaving home and tracking bracelets to monitor quarantines.
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From their self-imposed quarantines, the four people opened up a Google document and started brainstorming.
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But Co-Watching will remain a powerful feature long after the quarantines and social distancing end.
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Quarantines were in place in many areas, but the levels of social distancing varied among communities.
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Quarantines were in place in many areas, but the levels of social distancing varied among communities.
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The virus has disrupted travel worldwide, leading to flight cancellations, quarantines, and other breakdowns in movement.
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We've chosen two weeks because it matches the recommended time for quarantines related to this virus.
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Tehran doesn't have the resources to enforce quarantines and take other measures to contain the outbreak.
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WeWork's near-term outlook is fraught as global quarantines rock commercial real estate companies like WeWork.
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States across Germany are in lockdown, with strict quarantines imposed in some parts of the country.
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Quarantines can sometimes result in more cases, like what happened on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
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Now government-mandated quarantines have been deployed as our last line of defense against the virus.
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The CDC did not explain why, but Fehrenbacher thinks they had to start their quarantines over.
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During such quarantines, family access is permitted but restricted for anyone younger than 14 years old.
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If more infections come to American shores, prompting quarantines, the fallout would be even more pronounced.
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All over the country, quarantines, shut-downs, and closures have deeply impacted local and international business.
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In numerous instances, too, quarantines were used to separate people considered to be dirty or undesirable.
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Experts say the scans could catch many more cases and allow for faster treatment and quarantines.
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Quarantines: The number of coronavirus cases aboard a cruise ship quarantined off Japan doubled to 20.
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Unlike seven centuries ago, we have sophisticated medical treatments and technologies that make quarantines more feasible.
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He also said the state had begun planning for possible quarantines at homes, hotels and hospitals.
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The stock market, however, didn't seem too bothered by news of more quarantines this past week.
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It was not clear exactly what home quarantines would entail, or how they would be enforced.
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The virus has disrupted travel worldwide, leading to flight cancellations, quarantines, and other breakdowns in movement.
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Quarantines worked with SARS once Chinese officials quit hiding the extent of the country's 2002 outbreak.
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If quarantines were enacted in the US, they would be under the jurisdiction of the CDC.
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The government enforced strict quarantines and extended the week-long Lunar New Year Holiday last month.
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Quarantines, cancelled flights, and declining business could make it even tougher for China to meet those goals.
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U.S. officials have declared the outbreak a public health emergency, implementing travel restrictions and mandatory federal quarantines.
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The last time the US enforced large-scale quarantines was during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
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If the new coronavirus spreads rapidly, the authorities in those lands may struggle to establish effective quarantines.
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In China, for example, quarantines prevented factories from operating and stopped many consumers from shopping or traveling.
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The federal government hasn't authorized national quarantines or isolations yet, but President Donald Trump has that power.
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And accordingly, federal law does not provide for quarantines of individuals who remain within a single state.
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It assumes the US will step up nationwide efforts to contain the virus, including quarantines and shutdowns.
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County health departments have broad power to institute quarantines during a disease outbreak as they see fit.
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Phil Scott suspended hotels and short-term rentals and ordered quarantines for everyone arriving in the state.
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Sick passengers will go to hospitals, while others go to US military bases for 14-day quarantines.
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The novel coronavirus has hit the cruise industry hard, from failed quarantines to lawsuits and rampant cancellations.
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Asked about those quarantines, Fauci said he could not rule out similar actions in the United States.
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And he took credit for saving "many lives" by implementing travel restrictions and quarantines in late January.
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Myth: Banning travel can prevent spread of the virus First off, travel bans are different from quarantines.
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With Uber, drivers diagnosed or affected by quarantines can receive up to 85033 days of paid leave.
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As fears about the coronavirus mount, so do concerns about possible quarantines, office closures and school shutdowns.
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With coronavirus-related quarantines and social distancing, most people are spending more time cooped up at home.
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Taiwan has also deployed an "electronic fence" that uses mobile telephones to track those in home quarantines.
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The news has prompted a number of their colleagues to announce self-quarantines, as a precautionary measure.
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If they develop any COVID-19 symptoms during their quarantines, the close contacts move into hospital isolation.
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Travel restrictions, limited quarantines and banning mass gatherings are at the milder end of the responses employed.
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East Meets Dress had shipping partners in Shenzhen, China, which closed because of city lockdowns and quarantines.
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During SARS, in other countries, such as Canada, much more minor quarantines led to human rights trials.
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China bought the rest of the world time with draconian quarantines designed to contain the novel coronavirus.
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Determining whether to mandate quarantines or simply request voluntary isolation can be a difficult decision for officials.
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Are the quarantines and other aggressive measures to combat the spread of the virus ethical and effective?
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China has already instituted quarantines in major cities and suspended schools in hopes of containing the virus.
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Many countries and U.S. states have already implemented some of the precautions, like quarantines and airport screenings.
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It's "the mother of all quarantines," University of Michigan medical historian Howard Markel told the Washington Post.
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By July, the virus had spread to seven more countries, and quarantines were issued in multiple locations.
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Some U.S. passengers from that ship were ultimately repatriated to military bases in California for extended quarantines.
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Movie releases have been canceled in China and symphony tours suspended because of quarantines and fears of contagion.
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When outbreaks grow, public-health agencies rely on strategies like isolation and quarantines to lower the transmission potential.
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Quarantines have been around since the 14th century, but China has implemented the largest one in human history.
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Two others have fled coronavirus quarantines, including a mother and her son who jumped out of a window.
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Even here, though, health officials didn't think quarantines of all travelers could help stop the virus from spreading.
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Quarantines and school closing decisions are probably going to be made at the local, not the national, level.
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It's what China was trying to do with massive quarantines, the likes of which we've never seen before.
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According to Lady Pim, quarantines will likely inspire people to pay for online sex at a greater magnitude.
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A similar psychology is likely to set in if states begin large quarantines of people with coronavirus symptoms.
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Knowing who is infected and when they became infected allows traditional measures like quarantines to work more effectively.
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They've also imposed new, stricter measures, including steep fines for leaving home and tracking bracelets to monitor quarantines.
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Of course, much of Europe is under partial or full quarantines right now ... and Spain is no exception.
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In China, the government has ordered travel restrictions and quarantines that have affected hundreds of millions of people.
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Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft will compensate drivers affected by coronavirus quarantines, according to multiple news reports.
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The letter comes as multiple industries are seeking relief because of quarantines and closures due to the coronavirus.
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Such a mind-set, it turns out, is also useful in the time of pandemics and self-quarantines.
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Cities like Beijing have also imposed 250-day quarantines for those returning from other parts of the country.
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Major legal decisions about quarantines, which have mostly been decided by state supreme courts, are also quite dated.
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And in 1918, some towns shut down transportation and set up quarantines to keep out the Spanish flu.
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The same forecast recommended limiting travel, imposing quarantines, and canceling events to contain the spread of the disease.
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The U.S. in late January imposed travel restrictions and quarantines in response to the spread of the coronavirus.
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Quarantines also require an enormous dedication of personnel to manage, and those workers must also be kept safe.
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The hospital was understaffed, in part because some workers were still stuck in their hometowns following citywide quarantines.
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Even where factories are back in operation, getting freight to docks has been impeded by roadblocks and quarantines.
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Factories in China were closed due to mass quarantines and those closures will ripple through the global economy.
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Travel bans, voluntary quarantines and frenzied buying suggest that governments, companies and consumers have yet to act otherwise.
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In 1967, the US Centers for Disease Control became the federal agency responsible for executing the nation's quarantines.
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Quarantines are probably easier to enforce in China, she added, because of the nation&aposs centralized political system.
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My biggest issue was not the coronavirus or quarantines, but figuring out how to get a journalist visa.
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Develop a clear plan and process to quarantine contacts14-day self quarantines are being recommended to stop travelers moving out of COVID-19 hotspots from spreading the virus further, but not everyone agrees on who should and shouldn't perform these quarantines, and everyone does their own a little differently. 6.
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The Louisiana facility is privately owned, and individual facilities are able to set their own protocols for handling quarantines.
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A coalition of NGOs set up quarantines throughout Mbandaka, taught preventative measures, and engaged in a selective vaccination campaign.
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She complained she's not getting answers from U.S. officials on what overseas factories may be shut down amid quarantines.
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So here's what actually caused people to feel sick, why the quarantines happened, and what travelers need to know.
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A more authoritarian Chinese approach leads to more drastic quarantines including fencing people into villages and guarding the residents.
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The Trump administration has ordered self-quarantines for U.S. citizens who have been in other parts of mainland China.
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History has shown, again and again, that travel bans and mandatory quarantines don't actually help stop viruses from moving.
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Before this latest surge, demand was already high as consumers stocked up on the drug ahead of potential quarantines.
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China's mass quarantines seem to have curbed the virus's spread there, while Europe has become the pandemic's new epicenter.
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Quarantines have been imposed over the centuries, but longstanding case law dictates that they not be unreasonable or arbitrary.
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Soldiers roamed deserted streets enforcing quarantines, and medical professionals braced for an onslaught of patients by building field hospitals.
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Soldiers roamed deserted streets enforcing quarantines, and medical professionals braced for an onslaught of patients by building field hospitals.
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Tens of millions of migrants who work in the factories are still stuck in quarantines or in their hometowns.
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Tens of millions of migrants who work in China's factories are still stuck in quarantines or in their hometowns.
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From quarantines to working remotely, precautions are being taken across the U.S. in response to the spread of coronavirus.
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Some hospitals haven't released guidelines yet around whether quarantines count as sick time, paid time off, or unpaid time.
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The main reason is that it cannot counter the effects of quarantines and travel bans that curtail economic activity.
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Before this latest surge, demand was already high as consumers stocked up on the drug ahead of potential quarantines.
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The virus has disrupted travel worldwide, leading to flight cancellations, quarantines, and other breakdowns in movement and supply chains.
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Once quarantines started, people realized that they could use the xiao qu to communicate with their socially distanced neighbors.
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And hospital quarantines may have separated the sick from the general population, but couldn't isolate them from one another.
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Government-imposed quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocity with which contagious diseases spread.
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The virus has disrupted travel worldwide, leading to flight cancellations, quarantines, and other breakdowns in movement and supply chains.
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These economic impacts are in part related to disruption in demand for goods due to quarantines and travel restrictions.
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Do you think the quarantines imposed on Wuhan and other towns and cities in China are effective or ethical?
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"And then you have more of the bigger things: travel restrictions, quarantines, or screening people at airports," Fairley says.
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It should amend the federal quarantine law to ensure the availability of immediate judicial review of all C.D.C. quarantines.
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Until now, state and local governments have been primarily responsible for imposing quarantines to protect local residents from diseases.
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" Reddit further explains that it quarantines subreddits that "while not prohibited, average redditors may nevertheless find highly offensive or upsetting.
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China's two most populous cities, Shanghai and Beijing, have enforced quarantines for people who recently visited countries with significant outbreaks.
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It's a wonderful list filled with good feelings to help you forget all about coronavirus, unstable markets and self-quarantines.
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As we may soon see, our governments have extensive power not only to order quarantines but also to enforce them.
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Travel bans and overseas quarantines and travel screening, and so on, are not going to offer us much protection anymore.
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This could result in everything from schools to shut down, workplaces and businesses to close, and even city-wide quarantines.
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Rare in modern history, quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocious spread of contagious diseases.
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Several states including New York, California and Washington have declared states of emergency and multiple politicians have announced self-quarantines.
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The coronavirus outbreak has officials implementing quarantines and nationwide lockdowns in a bid to stem the spread of the disease.
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The transmission effect from virus containment goes through draconian quarantines, restrictions on travel and fear of assembly in public places.
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Hundreds of Americans aboard that ship were flown to military bases in California and other states for two-week quarantines.
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Coronavirus quarantines are hurting local businesses, but Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger wants to help them keep revenue rolling in.
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No government should rely on facial recognition to enforce quarantines, track infected patients or for any other coronavirus-related measures.
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Now, as Gabriel self-quarantines at his sister's home, he thinks about the detainees who are still at the jail.
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Economists around the world were lowering their growth estimates as factories delayed production and quarantines spread from Asia to Europe.
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After the initial chaos and cover-up in Wuhan, health authorities imposed a lockdown, strict quarantines, mandatory testing and isolation.
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As the number of coronavirus-caused quarantines has spiked across the globe, people are being driven into isolation en masse.
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Two House members announced on Wednesday that they have tested positive, sparking an avalanche of self-quarantines by their colleagues.
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More than 100,000 people have been affected so far (and millions more have been affected by travel restrictions and quarantines).
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Here's how two couples, neither of which was diagnosed with the illness, handled the stress and isolation of multiple quarantines.
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Asked about quarantines in China and Italy, Fauci said he could not rule out similar actions in the United States.
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What most worries you most about China's approaches — the quarantines, the surveillance — in the context of this new coronavirus outbreak?
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Millions of Chinese away from home are in limbo because of travel restrictions and quarantines imposed after the virus emerged.
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Japan, South Korea, Iran and Italy are all battling major outbreaks, in many cases imposing quarantines to contain the spread.
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But the large-scale quarantines in Wuhan have created confusion and frustration, and put some patients at even greater risk.
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When Covid-219 was first discovered, US public health officials worked to contain the outbreak with quarantines and travel restrictions.
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The lanternflies have already been spotted in eight states, from Virginia to Massachusetts, leading to quarantines and yearlong abatement efforts.
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After unprecedented quarantines were imposed throughout the country, people are prevented from traveling to see their families during the holiday.
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And in my opinion, at this stage, the quarantines decreed by the Chinese government will not help end the crisis.
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There are broader financial and social consequences But outside the realm of public health, quarantines can present broader societal problems.
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But the large-scale quarantines in Wuhan have created confusion and frustration, and put some patients at even greater risk.
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After landing, I've been asked about the countries I've visited while going through immigration, but have not faced any quarantines.
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But as the virus continues to spread, the quarantines put into place to contain it mean people aren't driving or flying.
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The reported quarantines within migrant detention facilities comes during a surge in outbreaks in communicable infections such as measles and mumps.
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On message boards, families also began discussing how they would manage long-term school closures or potential self or mandated quarantines.
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Governments -- federal, state and local -- can order quarantines, and in fact, those repatriated from China were under a federal quarantine order.
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Case studies: Early intervention, meticulous tracking, quarantines and social distancing helped Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong get their outbreaks under control.
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Officials said they would also use RVs stationed throughout the city to house homeless people with COVID-19 for self-quarantines.
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Mandatory quarantines, travel restrictions, business closures, and other deprivations of individual liberties rightly have been put in place, without much debate.
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And if small businesses go under today, they will not be there to provide jobs and services when the quarantines end.
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This has led to cancellations of large conferences, concerts, and other events; widespread closures of schools; and quarantines of entire communities.
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Six Americans who contracted the coronavirus talked about how they've coped with the loneliness of quarantines and anxiety over the disease.
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Many of the ads have ended up alongside unflattering reports about cruises, positioned next to stories about quarantines and government warnings.
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Most people have finished their quarantines by now, but 381 were still under lockdown as of March 5, the ministry said.
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As China works to contain the coronavirus with emergency quarantines, one city is reporting a record high number of divorce requests.
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As self-quarantines, conference cancellations, school closures, and other changes slow economic activity, companies are going to suffer cash-flow losses.
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Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, from national quarantines to closing schools.
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Long-lasting quarantines could keep shoppers at home while fear of infection could prevent even those not quarantined from venturing out.
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If supply chains are disrupted by quarantines in trading partners, there could be a short-term hit to production and growth.
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These economic impacts are a large part of why quarantines are seen as a "less desirable course of action," White said.
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"I am really hesitant on meeting clients coming in directly from China, especially hearing about the mass quarantines," Mr. Huang said.
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The closures came in tandem with mass quarantines in China and orders to halt public transit in Wuhan and neighboring cities.
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To that end, countries continue to impose quarantines on citizens and tourists who may have come in contact with the disease.
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Quarantines have been imposed on at least 10 towns, and the movement of tens of thousands of people has been limited.
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Widespread quarantines have prompted Chinese citizens to find novel ways of keeping themselves entertained via Douyin, including throwing virtual "cloud raves."
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Instead, concerns about quarantines, travel bans, and racist backlash have forced me to be more flexible as I travel through Asia.
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Every state has laws in place that allow quarantines and other public health enforcement tools, and they differ based on the jurisdiction.
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Often, that means people are blocked from seeing visitors, but in certain circumstances quarantines have also curtailed immigrants' access to legal aid.
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Whereas the use of the WTO quarantines disputes, by turning them into dry, technocratic affairs, "self-initiated" actions politicise even routine complaints.
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On Monday, students at Yale Law School launched a big class-action case against Connecticut, alleging its Ebola quarantines eroded civil liberties.
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But some residential communities have already been carrying out quarantines for residents returning from virus-hit countries before the announcement on Tuesday.
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The real infection rate will depend on whether measures like social distancing and quarantines reduce the spread of the virus, they said.
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Yet 40 miles south, in Silicon Valley, San Mateo County is no longer carrying out quarantines of infected patients, Dr. Morrow said.
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Now, your questions: Brad (Michigan): What legal authority does the government have to declare quarantines and how can a quarantine be enforced?
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Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, this week also launched a mobile app to help track cases, and it could be used to enforce quarantines.
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Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, this week also launched a mobile app to help track cases, and it could be used to enforce quarantines.
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Trump declared on Saturday he was considering quarantines over New York, New Jersey and Connecticut but pulled back after New York Gov.
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And yet it was also the beginning of a scientific renaissance in England, when doctors experimented with quarantines, sterilization and social distancing.
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And yet it was also the beginning of a scientific renaissance in England, when doctors experimented with quarantines, sterilization and social distancing.
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As Americans have fretted about quarantines and shortages, they've raided online and brick-and-mortar retailers, leaving shelves unstocked and warehouses short.
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She says the future looks bright for canned goods and frozen foods, which will become more in vogue the longer quarantines last.
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The world is vulnerable to a new type of trolling as people turn to Zoom video calls to feel connected amidst quarantines.
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The coronavirus-stricken Grand Princess cruise ship docked in Oakland on Monday so passengers could leave the ship for quarantines on land.
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Singapore, for instance, has largely contained the virus via strict quarantines and exhaustive efforts to find people who may have been exposed.
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Earlier this month, she tweeted that the federal government should have implemented actions such as quarantines and federally mandated paid sick leave.
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Although quarantines are considered a measure of last resort, "police powers" give states, counties and even cities broad authority to impose them.
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They watched as Chinese authorities imposed quarantines and airlines canceled thousands of flights before most Americans had even heard of the virus.
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Cowling foresees on-again, off-again lockdowns on the horizon for places that have already instituted quarantines and shelter-in-place measures.
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As Maggie Koerth explains at FiveThirtyEight, the evidence on whether quarantines have worked to slow the spread of past outbreaks is mixed.
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As the pandemic unfolds, that information might be useful to governments trying to enforce quarantines or deciding where to build new hospitals.
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At the global epicenter, in China, mass quarantines have apparently slowed the spread, but at a steep cost to livelihoods and liberties.
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But quarantines on cruise ships are no new thing, even if they've taken on a new, more harrowing meaning as of late.
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And with the quarantines have also been located and the initial preparations to receive any quarantined patient is also all in place.
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Quarantines can be effective tools for containing the spread of disease — but only when you're dealing with people who are already sick.
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But that's not to say a local government wouldn't turn to quarantines or travel restrictions, despite public health experts advising against them.
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Professor Hodge said quarantines could be effective if they selectively isolate only those who have been infected or are suspected of infection.
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The question is crucial, because when asymptomatic transmission occurs, officials sometimes need to institute more dramatic control measures, such as tougher quarantines.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has resisted a total border closure, instead enacting quarantines for mainland Chinese travelers entering Hong Kong.
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As the coronavirus spreads, people across the world are preparing for the possibility of forced quarantines, and shutdowns of businesses and services.
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And limited outbreaks, similar to the one in Italy, are possible in many countries, leading to more quarantines and weighing on confidence.
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Most companies may have to enforce additional quarantines for people returning from virus-hit areas, as well as implement daily temperature checks.
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The measures have totally upended many Europeans' daily lives, with Italy's neighbors closely monitoring their borders and other countries enforcing mass quarantines.
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Quarantines followed in the cities of Huanggang, Ezhou, Chibi, Xiantao, Zhijiang, Qianjjiang, Huangshi, Xianning, Yichang, Enshi, Xiangyang, Jingmen, Xiaogan, Dangyang, and Suizhou.
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Meanwhile, the doctors' descriptions of mold, quarantines and medical care are just a few paragraphs in a growing stack of legal filings.
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Hong Kong is using electronic wristbands as part of its effort to enforce quarantines and reduce the spread of the new coronavirus.
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We're all at the store daily, stocking up on canned goods and paper towels, awaiting news of school closings and home quarantines.
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Health authorities in Los Angeles last month ordered quarantines on two university campuses after each one had reported at least one confirmed case.
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The U.S. is imposing mandatory quarantines on citizens returning from Wuhan and is denying entry to many others who've recently been in China.
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Kudlow added that the Trump administration, which has imposed travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines, still expects "minimal impact" from the fast-spreading disease.
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Quarantines in the US, Italy and elsewhere -- which rely on people obeying the law -- have raised questions about civil disobedience, Luke McGee writes.
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But given that this is not always the case, quarantines can be enforced by fines or, in some cases, by arrest and prosecution.
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If schools continue to close and widespread quarantines become more likely, the Census Bureau will shift its strategy, said Cook, the Census spokesman.
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At the same time, measures like social distancing and quarantines remain our most effective tactics for shielding the most vulnerable during this outbreak.
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Like many communities, those who make their living through the performing arts are suffering in the wake of coronavirus quarantines and physical distancing.
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Quarantines in some areas prove successful in curbing infection, but areas with relaxed responses could drive a second spike in cases, Janasiewicz said.
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Thousands of Americans have stockpiled on supplies for home quarantines during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a shortage of toilet paper around the world.
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Sources connected to Bob tell us the former 'Price is Right' host is doing okay at home as he quarantines in Los Angeles.
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Rather than overly assuring comments, we need more details about what steps the administration is taking beyond the travel ban and the quarantines.
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QUARANTINE PROCEDURES The first quarantines of U.S. citizens potentially exposed to coronavirus in China began hours before the White House announcement on Friday.
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Another angle: During an Ebola outbreak in 2014, Donald Trump, then a private citizen, called for measures like canceling flights and forcing quarantines.
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Aylward said China's "extraordinary mobilization" to handle the outbreak showed how an aggressive public health policy, including large quarantines, could curb the spread.
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A new tool called Dangerzone quarantines new PDFs you receive, combs them for anything sketchy, scrubs them, and spits out a safe version.
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Aylward said China's "extraordinary mobilization" to handle the outbreak showed how an aggressive public health policy, including large quarantines, could curb the spread.
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And this weekend's spike in infections across South Korea, Italy and elsewhere raise fresh questions about containment efforts, despite travel bans and quarantines.
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The stocks he is bullish on include cloud-based software and after-school education companies that could see a benefit from the quarantines.
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Mr. Obama resisted pressure from Mr. Trump and others to institute sweeping travel bans and quarantines, calling them alarmist and urging levelheaded thinking.
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If other countries followed China's "bold approach," as the W.H.O. put it, widespread quarantines and other restrictions would hit the global economy hard.
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If the new coronavirus is similar, becoming infectious only late in a case, then quarantines will likely prove to be effective, he said.
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Without knowing how much the coronavirus might require quarantines or disrupt supply chains, stocking up on essentials has been a priority in Zhengzhou.
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But quarantines can't solve everything, and as a result, many localities are resorting to sprays consisting of a mixture of bleach and water.
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Until now, most quarantines have been imposed by states and local governments, which have primary responsibility for protecting the health of their populations.
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From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
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The county still quarantines anyone with measles, or people exposed to measles, with a penalty of $2,000 a day if someone doesn't comply.
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Even art dealers who expect business to suffer because of closed borders and mandatory quarantines say they understand that stopping the contagion comes first.
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The news caused a broad sell-off in global markets in a crisis that has resulted in quarantines, supply line disruptions and factory closings.
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So long as China quarantines its financial system from the rest of the world, talk of a petroyuan replacing the petrodollar will be premature.
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Quarantines on Reddit usually result in a mass exodus, as members of the quarantined sub move to more active, visible locations on the site.
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Each system benefits from having instituted early voting years ago, allowing hundreds of thousands of ballots to be cast before quarantines went into effect.
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Goldman Sachs on Sunday downgraded its outlook for US GDP, citing a cutback in spending, supply chain disruptions and the impact of local quarantines.
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As Chinese cities extend quarantines to travelers from an increasing number of countries and flights are cut back, students are rushing to get home.
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As Chinese cities extend quarantines to travelers from an increasing number of countries and flights are cut back, students are rushing to get home.
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New York waived the one-week waiting period for people who are out of work because of closures or quarantines related to the coronavirus.
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Yet what stopped the SARS and Ebola outbreaks from truly going global were simple, old-fashioned public health measures like contact tracing and quarantines.
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Although quarantines are considered a measure of last resort, "police powers" give states, counties and even cities broad authority to make residents stay home.
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Jim Justice has closed state campgrounds, while ordering 14-day quarantines for anyone arriving from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Louisiana, China or Italy.
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The cruise industry has been hit particularly hard, with outbreaks of the virus occurring among passengers and crew on board, prompting on-ship quarantines.
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Officials in Argentina, Peru, and Colombia have announced mandatory two-week quarantines for anyone arriving from the US and seven other virus-hit countries.
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The quarantines imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus are cutting back employment and production, by 20% or more relative to pre-pandemic levels.
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As travel bans and national quarantines have spread around the world faster than anyone thought possible, so have sometimes disingenuous and outright deceitful stories.
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The outbreak has disrupted air travel, canceled major conferences, and events, and led to quarantines of communities — and even the entire country of Italy.
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Unless the US ramps up quarantines, the middle of the country could become the next hotbed and reinfect coastal cities, according to Morgan Stanley.
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At the same time, commercial aviation is suffering a supply shock, with massive disruptions of its workforce as social distancing and quarantines affect operations.
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A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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The longer social distancing and quarantines are in effect, Gapen warns the more damage they'll inflict on corporate balance sheets, hiring and consumer spending.
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Airlines have been canceling or scaling back flights, trains have been halted, and countries have been imposing sometimes arbitrary quarantines on travelers and citizens.
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Additionally, the source said that quarantines are inhibiting employees from coming to work in certain areas, contributing to the barren shelves, the source said.
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And public health response includes everything that is done to try to control the disease from spreading, like recommending masks, travel warnings and quarantines.
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Commanders have far more authority than civilian leaders to impose quarantines and vaccinations, close facilities and order troops to stay away from public gatherings.
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That meant that — absent any interventions like quarantines or hospitalizations — every person who caught the disease could give it to almost four other people.
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Across China, the spread of the virus has prompted quarantines, airline cancellations, stores closures and the temporary shut down of factories and other businesses.
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"I think what we're doing right now is buying time until something else, like a vaccine, becomes available," Morse said of the global quarantines.
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Many Chinese cities have turned into ghost towns as quarantines kick in and people stay away from crowds to reduce the risk of infection.
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Among their allegations, made in court filings and detailed in interviews with CNN: mold on the walls, incorrect diagnoses and improper use of quarantines.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have implemented mandatory 220006-day quarantines for any traveler coming from Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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While there is debate about whether quarantines work, there is some evidence that for the swine flu in 2009 reduced large gatherings helped contain spread.
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But while the spreading quarantines might feel unprecedented, this is not the first time they've been used to stop the spread of a deadly virus.
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It is shocking economies as governments close their borders, order quarantines and enact severe "social distancing" measures that are devastating retail businesses and roiling markets.
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This month saw huge government quarantines as well as instructions not to gather in large groups as the number of global infections blew past 100,000.
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New polling also suggests that Trump's desire to end this period of quarantines and sheltering in place is out of step with the public's wishes.
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Tegeltija said that Bosnia's armed forces and health authorities would help set up tent quarantines near the border, probably by the end of the week.
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Tegeltija said that Bosnia's armed forces and health authorities would help set up tent quarantines near the border, probably by the end of the week.
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Restaurant workers are one sector of the economy that will be hit especially hard by quarantines and state, local and federal guidelines regarding social gatherings.
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Deciding what's essential during a situation Since the early 1800s, federal and state courts have granted governments broad latitude to impose quarantines for public health.
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Rather than impose common limits across their own states, DeSantis and Abbott imposed quarantines on people arriving from other states, particularly the New York region.
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This pressure could further intensify if coronavirus snowballs in the U.S. as it has elsewhere in the world, where mass quarantines have become status quo.
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Google set up a fund to offer paid sick leave to contractors and temp workers who can't work due to COVID-19 symptoms or quarantines.
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On Monday, Collins and Gaetz said they had been informed Monday that they had had contact with the infected man and were undergoing self-quarantines.
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If even moderately tight quarantines last for months, the surplus of money over the total cost of what is available will start to become considerable.
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The high company valuations that kept them at bay collapsed this month amid widespread business closures and quarantines of some of the world's largest cities.
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But those projections all came out before the novel coronavirus swept across the United States, causing a wave of self-quarantines and threatening economic downturn.
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The legal authority to impose quarantines on individuals is rooted in the "police powers" granted broadly to states, counties and cities to protect public health.
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Madani also relies on TomTom's road traffic data for various Chinese and Italian cities to understand how they are affected by quarantines and movement restrictions.
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In a world of rising lockdowns and quarantines, much of modern society has suddenly been transformed into a world living isolated on screens at home.
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The virus could exact a heavy economic toll in the G7 countries, as it leads to quarantines, shutters factories, and hits investor and consumer confidence.
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Coronavirus has underscored how Beijing's policy decisions, in this case public health policy, quarantines and business shutdowns, can now impact the rest of the world.
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U.S. officials followed suit on Friday, imposing mandatory quarantines on U.S. citizens who have recently traveled to the Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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Swaths of China have ground to a standstill as authorities try to contain the virus by shuttering factories and enforcing quarantines, disrupting trade and tourism.
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Some public health experts — including Lawrence Gostin, in a video interview with Changing America — make the case that massive quarantines could actually worsen the crisis.
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The rapid spread of the illness has paralyzed the Asian country, forcing quarantines and travel bans throughout China that have closed businesses and derailed travel.
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Quarantines "are often very economically and financially costly," said Alexandre White, an assistant professor of sociology and the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
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In other quarantines for the coronavirus around the world, the standard practice has been to isolate for 14 days those who have possibly been exposed.
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City-wide lockdowns and quarantines have led to labor shortages that affect logistics such as pick-up and trucking, particularly for refrigerated goods, said Nixon.
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Also once the outbreak does begin to naturally burn out, public health authorities might have an easier time stamping it out with quarantines and screenings.
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This one ostensibly quarantines "extensive amounts" of unexploded bombs left over by the United States Navy, which controlled much of the island during the 227th century.
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RELATED: Why Fort Sill and other US Army bases are used to house migrant children ICE quarantines individuals for 25 days from the last incubation period.
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The app shows the location of both confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients, as well as travel disruption caused by the various quarantines in force across China.
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States have the authority to issue their own quarantines, but the last time the federal government ordered one was in the 6900s due to suspected smallpox.
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It provides protection against malicious websites and phishing emails, as well as a neat system that quarantines any device on your network that may be compromised.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for carrying out federal quarantines — the DOD is not involved in treating or observing the quarantined people.
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The news has been grim with deaths, rolling quarantines and the economy's seeming to flat line, though the number of new cases has begun to fall.
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In the new game mode, players will control world governments, boost healthcare systems, impose quarantines and shut down public services to prevent the infection from spreading.
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States close nonessential businesses or issue quarantines Several states have ordered all nonessential businesses to close but stopped short of issuing official stay-at-home orders.
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The country was the first Western democracy to see the virus spread on an alarming scale — and the first to impose mass quarantines and travel restrictions.
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But as China has, through strict quarantines and other measures, appeared to bring the virus under control, it has gone about trying to fudge that history.
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We've already seen the coronavirus's impact on the App Store, as users in China downloaded a record number of games last month during quarantines, for example.
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The coronavirus outbreak has left the world at a standstill as quarantines and other measures are implemented to contain the spread of the disease COVID-19.
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Front-line public health officials may either recommend or order quarantines or self-isolation for hundreds of thousands more Americans in the coming weeks and months.
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Despite a growing outcry over the cost of testing and treating patients, Congress didn't explicitly address how to handle funding for mandatory quarantines or the uninsured.
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Peace Corps volunteers left China during the height of the coronavirus outbreak by dodging travel restrictions amid confusion over voluntary quarantines, evacuees have told BuzzFeed News.
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Rebooking has become a game for many couples who are deciding how far out they're comfortable rescheduling their wedding while not knowing when quarantines will lift.
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Hundreds of Americans who were possibly exposed to the virus abroad have been repatriated and subject to two-week quarantines at military bases across the country.
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When Guard members have been deployed, the sight of camouflage-clad troops and military vehicles has prompted false rumors of martial law and military-enforced quarantines.
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As countries around the world fight the spread of the coronavirus, several governments are using technology to monitor quarantines — particularly of people coming in from overseas.
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Officials there enacted targeted quarantines but did not shut down workplaces altogether, allowing their respective economies to continue operating while so far successfully containing the virus.
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Flattening the curve, or alleviating the burden from local hospitals dealing with coronavirus patients, requires the quarantines that some states have imposed, according to health officials.
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Save for systemic societal fracturing and civil unrest, the U.S. military will not soon be enforcing national quarantines in Pleasantville, despite what the movies tell us.
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Many of us also have a bit more time to read the news as various institutions have been impacted by self-distancing measures and self-quarantines.
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That means some of the crucial public health tools we should have to fight a pandemic — surveillance, contact tracing, and targeted quarantines — just aren't currently available.
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While quarantines may have helped deter the spread of plague, the wholesale slaughter of cats proved counterproductive in trying to stop a disease spread by rats.
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Public health needs are the first order of business, in particular medical testing and treatment, appropriate quarantines and enacting paid sick leave to minimize the spread.
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Communities or colleges that have experienced outbreaks have devoted substantial resources to defining the extent, identifying who needs to be vaccinated, educating people and creating quarantines.
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If coronavirus were to spread widely in the United States, and officials decided to impose widespread quarantines, the economic impact is hard for economists to model.
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The US has taken "unprecedented steps" to contain the outbreak, according to the CDC, such as travel restrictions, mass quarantines, and declaring a public health emergency.
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Even with these rigorous efforts to contain the virus, Morse agreed with a sentiment expressed by other disease experts: quarantines are only effective until they're not.
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As China quarantines millions of people — meaning ravers can no longer go out to party — nightclubs are livestreaming DJ sets on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.
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It is unclear how far infections will spread, making it difficult to estimate the economic fallout from such actions as widespread quarantines and supply chain disruptions.
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China and other countries could end up in a "vicious cycle," Cowling said, where they have to shutter businesses and implement mass quarantines every three months.
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Expats in China are facing an assortment of issues, including economic uncertainty, debilitating restrictions, and the looming threat of quarantines, as the country deals with the coronavirus.
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Trade experts raised doubts that China would be able to hit that mark even before the outbreak led to quarantines, flight cancellations and some supply chain disruptions.
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Quarantines and travel bans within China have frozen much of the country's domestic economic activity and forced international businesses to close Chinese stores, factories and supply lines.
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In a regulatory filing released Thursday, Hasbro said that China's coronavirus quarantines and travel restrictions have temporarily prevented workers at its Chinese source factories from assembling toys.
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While residents across the states have so far been compliant about going into self-quarantine voluntarily, health officials can issue orders making both quarantines and isolations mandatory.
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They note that cutting payroll taxes only helps Americans who are still working — and not those who are furloughed by quarantines or laid off amid floundering sales.
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One of this mission's touted strengths is its collaborative spirit, but its international framework is now vulnerable to travel restrictions and potential quarantines to contain the outbreak.
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An increasing number of nations are implementing sweeping social distancing strategies ranging from school closures and cancellation of large public gatherings, to ordering quarantines on entire cities.
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But at least folks can earn a little extra cash back or bonus points toward travel for when quarantines are lifted and the travel industry bounces back.
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And that's OK. But if you've been craving more productivity during your self-quarantines, here are some ways to better yourself for free while you socially distance.
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In China, officials imposed unprecedented quarantines on tens of millions of people, including 11 million residents in the city of Wuhan — the original epicenter of the outbreak.
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Crew members will remain on the ship, sick passengers will be taken to hospital, and the rest will head to US military bases for 14-day quarantines.
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Over the weekend, Congress's medical office sent lawmakers an update on the CPAC encounters that supported the self-quarantines and suggested the chances of transmission were low.
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Senators also discussed their ideas to stimulate the economy, which may take a hit because of supply-chain disruptions in China, canceled travel and possible worker quarantines.
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The now famous meme accompanying the hashtag #FlattenTheCurve suggests that quarantines and shutdowns are the only way to prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed by infections.
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Baking can help address the boredom of home quarantines and some people may have more time on their hands now that they aren't commuting to an office.
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This patchwork, which I've been decrying for three weeks now, is actually undermining the efforts of states that are imposing the stay-at-home orders, the quarantines.
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They've coordinated with all of their vendors to reschedule for late June, realizing they may have chosen a day that's too early for quarantines to have ended.
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Some workers have returned to their factories as the Chinese government tries to get the economy restarted, but they are under 14-day quarantines in their dormitories.
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These have become obvious with plummeting fossil fuel use, and in both China and Italy pollution levels have dropped significantly since the quarantines have gone into effect.
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A new system in 20 cities in China uses software to dictate quarantines, assigning people a color code — green, yellow or red — that indicates their health status.
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Federal public health laws sometimes permit quarantines for people engaged in international or interstate travel, but they do not permit the president to impose a nationwide quarantine.
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The way to prevent that level of infection is to delay the virus' spread — via quarantines and reduced contact between people — until researchers can produce a vaccine.
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But when the disease reaches a much larger scale, the US will run out of capacity to keep on imposing quarantines, which won't be effective then either.
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When President Barack Obama contended with an Ebola outbreak, Mr. Trump demanded measures like canceling flights, forcing quarantines and even denying the return of American medical workers.
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China has some of the world's biggest and newest seaports and airports, but using them has become a lot harder because of roadblocks, quarantines and factory closings.
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The looming pandemic will challenge us in new ways, as people try to evade quarantines, and misinformation campaigns and conspiracy theorists ply their trade in open democracies.
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As she self-quarantines at home, Lloyd visits the encampments two or three times a week, talking to people, bringing in portable toilets and delivering trash bags.
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"We have multiple quarantines in both facilities," said Lunn, managing attorney of Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network's Detention Program, which conducts intakes at Aurora five days a week.
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The lack of common standards on testing, on the cancellation of public gatherings and on quarantines have deepened the anxiety of people and eroded confidence in their leaders.
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The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down countries across the world, causing a significant decline in air pollution in major cities as countries implement stricter quarantines and travel restrictions.
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But the reports of quarantines and medical checks are actually evidence of a complex health system working exactly as intended, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Several states, including Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, have imposed more stringent entry requirements for rescue animals, like mandatory examinations by a local vet and quarantines.
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The long-term ramifications of quarantines on the business world will depend on how long people are stuck at home, juggling raising and educating kids with working remotely.
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The report by 30 researchers, analyzing the spread of the virus in the US and UK, found that social distancing and quarantines could halve the global death toll.
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Governments can also order smaller-scale quarantines, in which they seclude people who are not known to be infected but have been exposed to a person who is.
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"Limited outbreaks, similar to the one in Italy, are possible in many countries, leading to more quarantines and weighing on confidence," Bank of America economist Aditya Bhave said.
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Right from the start, South Korea rolled out widespread testing, tracked the contacts of known cases, and enforced strict quarantines on people who tested positive for the virus.
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The virus has been spreading within US communities for weeks, prompting cancellations of large conferences, concerts, and other events; widespread closures of schools; and quarantines of entire communities.
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The virus has been spreading within US communities for weeks, leading to large conferences, concerts, and other events being canceled; widespread school closures; and quarantines of entire communities.
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The virus has been spreading within US communities for weeks, leading to large conferences, concerts, and other events being canceled, widespread school closures, and quarantines of entire communities.
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With quarantines likely to increase and so many suffering, have heart that artists are taking the lead in holding each other and their communities, even while in isolation.
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Health officials are relying on tactics like quarantines and social distancing while hospitals (which fear equipment shortages) are using oxygen and fever reducers, like ibuprofen, to treat people.
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And that depends on public health measures during an outbreak, like quarantines and social distancing, as well as personal tactics like robust, 20-second hand-washing with soap.
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Now that the country is facing a disease outbreak that demands measures like "social distancing," working from home and quarantines, that epidemic of loneliness could get even worse.
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Giving a rough estimate of what they achieved, he said the country's mass quarantines and drastic reworking of its medical system saved "hundreds of thousands" from being infected.
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Chinese tourists are some of the world's biggest spenders, and travel restrictions, quarantines, and closed borders are making tourism increasingly difficult, to say nothing of visitors to China.
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All US quarantines are under control of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, a branch of the CDC, which currently has 20 quarantine stations throughout the country.
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While there's no reason to fear widespread quarantines right away, the experts told Mashable that they want people to know just what's at stake in Donald Trump's administration.
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Expeditious measures are taken, including quarantines that begin with the college campus and the hospital, and soon the entire region is isolated from the rest of the world.
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But Kudlow noted that the Trump administration, which imposed travel restrictions and quarantines in response to the coronavirus last week, still projects "minimal impact" from the fast-spreading disease.
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The spread of SARS was eventually limited via quarantines, travel restrictions, public-information campaigns, and airport screenings — the same types of interventions China and other countries are instituting now.
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How is the virus actually transmitted, when does it make sense to practice social distancing, to institute quarantines, to close the schools and the pool halls and the churches?
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Countries are now scrambling to contain the virus, imposing travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines -- an echo of the shutdowns and emergency measures that swept across Asia two months ago.
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Chair Jerome H. Powell and his colleagues are trying to protect the U.S. economy before a slowdown — caused by worker quarantines, weaker tourism and swooning markets — fully takes hold.
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China has grappled the longest with the disease and imposed unprecedented quarantines on tens of millions of people living in the country to contain the spread of the disease.
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The government needs to focus on limiting the spread of the virus by encouraging sick leaves, quarantines and other measures that can be described as taxes on economic activity.
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And coronavirus might just be the catalyst for 5G that the world needs as it forces whole nations to enforce quarantines and social distancing and remote work and schooling.
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That means that it will look — for weeks — like the measures we're taking now like self-quarantines, school closures, and social distancing are not working, even if they are.
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Failure to protect our nurses will lead to an increase in quarantines, reduced staffing, increased burnout, and systematic failure which, in turn, increases the risk of in-patient mortality.
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The coronavirus has snarled many spring home-buying plans, as apartment buildings ban open houses, real estate agents shutter brokerages and quarantines make it tough to even step outside.
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Quarantines and social distancing could reduce the number of cases by halfThe researchers modeled a number of different scenarios of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic might play out.
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Carriers have been tasked with helping enforce a constantly changing set of travel restrictions, including prohibitions of some visitors who have traveled to China and quarantines of other travelers.
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Hollywood in particular began seeing the effects of the virus months ago; quarantines and lockdowns in Asia forced people to stay in their homes and away from movie theaters.
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In a short tweet, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee pointed to actions such as quarantines and federally mandated paid sick leave as solutions the White House should get behind.
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That discussion came while they studied the relationship between epidemic curves and so-called nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like social distancing, self-quarantines, school closures and bans of large gatherings.
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With the rapid outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, thousands of students have had their way of life and their studies radically disrupted by evacuations and quarantines.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment earlier ordered 14-day quarantines for Kansans who traveled to California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Washington, starting March 23.
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Since its discovery in Wuhan, China, in December last year, coronavirus has infected more than 100 000 people in 103 countries and resulted in panic, travel bans and quarantines.
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If everything goes right, Lipsitch wrote—massive testing and quarantines of the ill, and aggressive social distancing—it'll be possible to keep numbers down and maybe shorten the timeline.
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To help curb further spread, health officials in New York have implemented mandatory self-quarantines for people who had close contact with those infected, which is about 1,000 people.
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"Lockdown" isn't a technical term used by public health officials, but Italy, China, and El Salvador are three countries that have implemented the largest and most restrictive mass quarantines.
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North Korea has ended most flights with neighbouring China and Russia, imposed mandatory quarantines on any foreigners arriving in the country and ended international tourism programmes, among other measures.
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Even the state request that people stay indoors with their own loved ones had become a problem, as self-quarantines were leading to cross-generational infections among family members.
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Three other cruise ships have faced delays and quarantines in the past week over virus fears, in Hong Kong, Thailand and the US, though none have confirmed an outbreak.
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In particular Goldman Sachs noted social media, news apps, and video games saw an uptick in both installs and user engagement as quarantines and city lockdowns spread across China.
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Rumors and panic begin to spread, and the guardrails quickly start to come off society as the days click by, amid quarantines, looting and chilling scenes of vacant airports.
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Tourism — a multibillion-dollar industry during the Lunar New Year — has been decimated as the government quarantines major population centers and people avoid traveling for fear of becoming infected.
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Many local governments have also imposed strict restrictions on entering certain areas and requiring quarantines of at least two weeks for people who have returned from out-of-town.
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Many local governments have also imposed strict restrictions on entering certain areas and requiring quarantines of at least two weeks for people who have returned from out of town.
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Since early testing and effective quarantines are the only way to slow the spread of a virus which has no vaccine or cure, tardiness is likely to cost lives.
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There have been several outbreaks of mumps and chickenpox at the Aurora facility over the past few months, which have resulted in quarantines that impede access to attorneys, Shepherd said.
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Calls for travel bans, quarantines, and border closures ensued, diverting the conversation from the victims of Ebola and measures that would actually stop what seemed then like an unstoppable virus.
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The results of both cases are pending, but they raise questions about how quarantines can violate people's individual rights — and how they should be handled in current and future pandemics.
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In the United States, quarantines are in place for some first responders who helped infected patients at a Seattle-area nursing home, or attendees of a New York bar mitzvah.
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Experts have warned against stigmatizing patients; for instance, quarantines are undoubtedly vital to the containment process, but if done improperly, patients could potentially be treated with less dignity and respect.
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It sure seems to be heading in that direction — and here we are impacting the Global economy, talking about closing schools, altering travel plans, dealing with quarantines and for what??
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"If even one player comes down with coronavirus, the [NBA] would suspend instantaneously because of the cascading effect of quarantines," ESPN basketball reporter Brian Windhorst told me on Wednesday afternoon.
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Kennelly did not respond to questions about the exact nature of the individual quarantines, the facility-wide lockdown, or other measures being taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
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The legal authority to impose quarantines or shelter-in-place orders on individuals is rooted in the "police powers" granted broadly to states, counties and cities to protect public health.
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Which is why it's one of the many things at stake as countries around the world issue quarantines, close off borders, and shut down businesses in light of COVID-19.
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Federal health officials were directed to keep dozens of meetings that started in mid-January, including discussions on the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions confidential, Reuters reported Wednesday.
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Information about preventing the spread of the virus, the close monitoring of symptoms, travel restrictions, hand washing, the use of masks and quarantines are, in all likelihood, saving people's lives.
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In the meantime, maybe the answer is simply to read more books, still the most beautifully curated art form and an activity that is perfectly suited for small group quarantines.
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Upcoming monthly reports are likely to post relatively small changes, as they cover only the beginning of March, before the outbreak spread further and prompted widespread quarantines and business closures.
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But compounding the problem, many customers couldn't close on their loans because of quarantines, leaving the mortgage lenders with only the cost of the hedge and no off-setting loan.
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The virus has been spreading within US communities for weeks, causing large conferences, concerts, and other events to be canceled, forcing schools to close, and leading to quarantines of communities.
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After the SARS outbreak in 2003, Taiwan set up the National Health Command Center (NHCC), which enabled early screening and quarantines of sick patients and coordination across multiple government agencies.
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Those negotiations may face some delays amid the global coronavirus pandemic, however, as it starts to ripple around Latin America with Argentina imposing strict quarantines and closing the country's borders.
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The footwear industry was already dealing with an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, when the spread of the coronavirus began in China, prompting quarantines and shuttered factories.
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"Coronavirus threatens to pose an unprecedented challenge to the 2020 elections," by Isaac Stanley-Becker by Elise Viebeck How a shaky electoral infrastructure is preparing for a period of quarantines.
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According to the report, Hong Kong said it had 500 wristbands ready to use for the at-home quarantines, and that 30 families had been selected to receive the wristbands.
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As of Sunday, there have been 36 cases in Hong Kong, but the family cluster has prompted health officials to warn that a community outbreak is probably inevitable despite quarantines.
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"If we had to actually quarantine all of those people instead of rely on self-quarantines, you can just imagine what that would do to available resources," Mr. Cuccinelli said.
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The country has taken on unprecedented "wartime" measures to control the virus's spread, such as placing severe restrictions on some 403 million people and instituting mass quarantines in major cities.
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In China, where the virus originated, the government reacted by shutting down public activity like transit or travel, enforcing regional and personal quarantines, and generally keeping people from interacting much.
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Low-wage workers are particularly vulnerable to any global economic downturn triggered by travel restrictions and quarantines as the coronavirus outbreak spreads from China around the world, roiling supply chains.
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A very strong emphasis on hand washing and on the immediate isolation of the sick may be more effective than mass quarantines, said Jennifer Huang Bouey, a Georgetown University epidemiologist.
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But the Trump administration has taken drastic action to slow the spread of the virus in the United States, including quarantines and travel restrictions -- and it's because of the unknowns.
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A recent survey by the Chinese Psychology Society showed that thousands of Chinese citizens had anxiety and depression because of the cascade of bad news and their quarantines at home.
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Perhaps most importantly, Harris said that unlike in the early 2000s, the government has taken swift action and the quarantines — government-imposed and otherwise — could hit the global economy hardest.
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The history of epidemiology is also littered with quarantine horror stories, and fears that authorities could use quarantines as a pretext to put LGBTQ people in camps are still relevant today.
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But aides quickly clarified that trade would not be affected, and officials said his plan did not apply to Americans or US permanent residents -- although such travelers would face mandatory quarantines.
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Investors are worried about economic fallout from an epidemic that is threatening to slow growth and eat into corporate profits by shuttering factories, forcing quarantines, curtailing travel and scrapping big events.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a "national emergency" due to the coronavirus outbreak and imposed quarantines on the Lombardy and Veneto regions, which contain roughly a quarter of the country's population.
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With more than a hundred deaths in a single day in northern Italy this weekend, that country's government has imposed sweeping quarantines on more than 10 million people in the region.
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Online work software has been a growing industry for years, and that growth seems to have been accelerated as more Americans follow mandatory and self-imposed quarantines due to the coronavirus.
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Abbott has also ordered 14-day quarantines for people flying to Texas from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, California, Louisiana, Miami, Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta or motorists driving from Louisiana.
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Quarantines, cancellations, and work-from-home policies have greatly driven up the demand for video and chat software that allows people to try and maintain some semblance of business as usual.
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And, even for those who remain healthy, they are likelier to suffer loss of income or health care as a result of quarantines and other measures, potentially on a sweeping scale.
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With COVID-19 quarantines familiarizing more companies with remote work, there could be a big market for ensuring their retention and productivity by making them feel like part of the team.
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Her overall inventory as of recent is down dramatically, including for several products of which she has only 200 to 300 units remaining — a result of the country establishing widespread quarantines.
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Thanks to quarantines, lockdowns of entire regions and other stringent measures, the Chinese appear to have brought the outbreak to heel -- albeit after it killed more than 3,000 of their citizens.
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The move comes as refiners around the world have been grappling with a plunge in crude oil prices and weakening refining margins as travel restrictions and quarantines have curbed oil consumption.
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In another case, the hackers adapted a bug in IE's sandbox, the security feature that quarantines code in the browser from the rest of the computer, to bypass FireFox's sandbox instead.
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Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that the state would set aside some $40 million to fight the virus, as well as plan for possible quarantines at homes, hotels and hospitals.
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But as Chinese authorities continue to implement quarantines and travel restrictions to wrangle the spread of the coronavirus, Huawei announced it would push the conference back to March 27 and 28.
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Perhaps, but given the checkered history of quarantines — throughout history, they have been used to persecute the marginalized — lawmakers and the media should rigorously examine the bases for any such restrictions.
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Economists seem certain that the travel shutdowns, factory closures and quarantines in mainland China will dampen economic activity there, but have said it is too soon to know the impact elsewhere.
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"Mandatory, involuntary quarantines can be difficult to enforce, and counterproductive," says Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and former head of Global Disaster Response at USAID.
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Still, no city-wide quarantines have come into place and religious pilgrims are still moving in and out of Qom, Iran's coronavirus epicenter, which sees some 22 million religious tourists annually.
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Many towns and cities have begun imposing two-week mandatory quarantines on arriving truck drivers who picked up cargos in cities with disease outbreaks or even just drove through these areas.
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They have used facial-recognition software to catch people breaking their quarantines, flown drones over towns to make sure people are wearing masks, and are checking temperatures at every possible opportunity.
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Major U.S. airlines have also suspended service to China and businesses around the world are expected to suffer from store closures, idled factories, quarantines and other efforts to contain the virus.
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Garment factories in some parts of Asia have been forced to send home workers and close factories as quarantines and travel restrictions due to coronavirus disrupt supply chains linked to China.
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Levin said there are other potential pitfalls that could stem from mass quarantines, including a spike in privacy violations and cybersecurity attacks due to sensitive business increasingly being conducted at home.
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At least 40 states and territories have declared states of emergency in response to the virus, giving them the authority to impose curfews, order traffic off the street and mandate quarantines.
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"We have to remember that quarantines protect those outside the quarantine, not those within," John Lynch, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Washington, told The New York Times.
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Many countries are imposing 14-day quarantines on people coming from mainland China, while the city of Wuhan and at least 15 other Chinese cities have had their transport links shut down.
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Despite heavy quarantines across 14 Pennsylvania counties, the insect is on the move, hitchhiking on vehicles and luggage, and parasailing by swarm on breezes, sometimes showing up in vineyards by the thousands.
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Meticulous contact tracing data that is available online has established that the vast majority are local cases and that, in turn, allows authorities to identify carriers of the virus and order quarantines.
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The details known about the man's time at the Bronxville hospital underscore an alarming threat — one undiagnosed patient with the new coronavirus can expose a large number of staff, leading to quarantines.
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If quarantines become routine, tens of millions of low-wage workers, many of whom don't have health insurance or paid sick leave, will not be able to stock up and stay home.
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How canceled events and self-quarantines save lives, in one chart, Vox The primary factor that will determine the severity of the coronavirus's impact is the speed at which the outbreak occurs.
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As the sudden surge in cases in Hong Kong shows, quarantines and social distancing must continue well beyond the initial wave of cases, if another round of infections is to be avoided.
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" But Hare added that for Quibi to build a customer base right now, they have to deliver on a "captivating experience that will build fans long after quarantines and coronavirus have passed.
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The coronavirus pandemic is inflicting enormous economic damage in the United States, as quarantines close businesses, force workers to stay at home and create uncertainty that has spurred volatility in financial markets.
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Network operators should be prepared to make operations decisions based on real-time usage data rather than historical rates, however, as quarantines have already been shown to disrupt typical media consumption habits.
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And we acknowledge the fact that ... the news flow is coming in every day and airlines are having their challenges and there's quarantines in different areas, businesses, people are working from home.
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Technology, travel and hospitality, and energy companies took the steepest losses Thursday as store closures, quarantines, supply chain disruptions and cancelled vacations and events threaten to wipe out their first-quarter profits.
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She cited as an example Italys decision to extend tax deadlines for companies in affected areas and a broadened wage supplementation fund to support workers laid off amid quarantines and travel restrictions.
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Northam's announcement comes one day after Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a state of emergency for the city, allowing the mayor to implement quarantines and cancellation of events and gatherings.
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Home-bound Americans turn to baking to fight boredom The sudden increase in demand for baking ingredients comes amid widespread voluntary quarantines and shelter-at-home orders due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The moves to stop spending come as coronavirus quarantines threaten to wreak havoc on revenue for many of the SoftBank Vision Fund's largest investments, including Uber, WeWork, Grab, Didi Chuxing and Ola.
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Before the ship's more than 3,000 passengers and crew members finally docked in Oakland on Monday, officials announced plans to take the US residents to four military bases for quarantines and screening.
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" Alberto Bernal, chief emerging markets strategist at XP Investments in New York, put it even more bluntly: "The worse it gets with the quarantines, the worse for the fate of the restructuring.
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Rather than blanket shelter-in-place orders, officials could see which cities, neighborhoods, and people are most at risk and start to relax quarantines, curfews, and other control measures in some areas.
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Disruptions in the supply chain could result in limited access to these drugs with health-damaging effects for people in the U.S. Past quarantines have resulted in public mistrust, violence, and xenophobia.
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Kudlow explained that the White House would rather take a more specific, tailored response to the virus and hold off on broad-stroke policies that could upend local economies such as quarantines.
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The disease, formally known as COVID-19, has severely impacted business activity in the mainland as the government locked down cities for weeks and enforced wide-scale quarantines to contain its spread.
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The Trump administration imposed travel restrictions and quarantines in late January in response to the outbreak, which has spread to dozens of countries around the world and killed more than 2,700 people.
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Here's what large companies have said about the outbreak: TRAVEL ADVISORIES/EVACUATIONS/QUARANTINES: * Facebook suspended non-essential travel to mainland China and told employees who had traveled there to work from home.
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Gregg Gonsalves, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said the experience in China suggested that quarantines could create their own set of problems for people who are confined.
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In regions where an outbreak has occurred, such as in Wuhan, China, or the Lombardy region of Italy, government officials have initiated quarantines and closed schools as a way to prevent transmission.
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As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, and the World Health Organization considers declaring a pandemic, various containment strategies have been enlisted worldwide to slow infection, from quarantines to common household cleaners.
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Travel bans, quarantines, store closures and idled factories across Asia are likely to derail the Chinese economy and hinder U.S. companies that depend on travel, supply lines and sales throughout the continent.
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But those positive signs could be dampened by the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which is forcing quarantines in China, shuttering multinational operations in the country and causing nervousness around the world.
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Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson), who is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and makes fruitless arguments for quarantines, translates: Calvin can simultaneously be all muscle, all brain and all eye.
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These quarantines fueled fears that I would end up quarantined in Vietnam or some other country — either as part of a mass quarantine effort or because I show symptoms of the coronavirus.
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She said the family did not receive a written quarantine order, was not informed of its legal right to challenge the quarantines and was not provided with appropriate material support, including a thermometer.
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Using quarantines to assist in controlling an outbreak, while uncomfortable, is an important public health option, Rebecca Katz, who directs the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, told CNN.
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Barnard student Sylvia Su along with another, identified only as Cindy, told Columbia Student News' Bwog that they've never left their rooms for longer than a bathroom break during their two-week quarantines.
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The number of people amassed in immigration detention under the Trump administration has reached record highs, raising concerns among migrant advocates about disease outbreaks and resulting quarantines that limit access to legal services.
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We tried to remind people that Ebola was actually difficult to catch and that the calls for travel bans and quarantines of health workers would be counterproductive, according to the best available evidence.
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"If governments continue to respond with quarantines and border closings and restricted air travel and closing schools ... that's going to cause a [global] recession no matter what the Fed is doing," Yardeni said.
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They also outlined a more optimistic model, in which the outbreak peaks in five to 10 days if strict regional quarantines are instituted in the most affected areas, New York, Washington, and California.
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It will save lives and reduce the need for the widespread shutdowns and quarantines we're now experiencing and will thus prevent the accompanying economic destruction that on its own will cause much suffering.
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The Trump administration in late January imposed travel restrictions and quarantines for certain individuals, and Trump expanded those travel restrictions to some parts of Europe in a rare Oval Office address Wednesday night.
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Don Beyer to self-quarantine after contact with friend who tested positive for coronavirus MORE (R-Texas) both announced their respective self-quarantines on Sunday after coming into contact with the infected individual.
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Quarantines can be high stress situations, so couples who have already experienced communication issues with each other should consider sticking to their own homes, rather than making a base together, Robinson-Brown said.
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That includes people whose workplaces have shut down due to the virus or workers who are out of a job as the country dramatically transitions into self-quarantines and away from public gatherings.
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Mark MeadowsMark Randall MeadowsTrump to nominate Russell Vought as budget chief Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' The Hill's Morning Report — Coronavirus tests a partisan Washington MORE (R-N.C.).
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That includes people whose workplaces have shut down due to the virus or workers who are out of a job as the country dramatically transitions into self-quarantines and away from public gatherings.
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Cases of COVID-19 are on the increase in Latin America, where governments have put in place quarantines and travel restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of the flu-like virus.
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Virtual support group meetings have become crucial for people with substance abuse problems as the coronavirus quarantines prevent the regular real-world meetings from taking place in churches, community centers and other locations.
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Israel, for instance, has just approved emergency powers to track location data of infected individuals and ensure they are adhering to quarantines as well as alerting people they have come into contact with.
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We will also need a vast ramp-up in testing, so policymakers and government officials can get a handle on hot spot locations and be equipped to do contact tracing and targeted quarantines.
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The mixed messages comes as the White House offered a glimpse of their line of thinking amid the quarantines and shelter-in-place directives across the country, and the subsequent shuttering of businesses.
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UPS has cancelled 22 China flights, as a result of the Wuhan quarantines and normal manufacturing closures due to the Lunar New Year holiday, UPS Chief Executive David Abney said on Jan. 30.
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The ban is just one of a number of initiatives China is imposing to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, including panic-building two hospitals and introducing unprecedented quarantines throughout the country.
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While there have been comparatively few confirmed infections in the United States, public health officials have warned that clusters of infection are very likely to appear, potentially resulting in quarantines and production slowdowns.
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China's manufacturing sector is expected to get hit by the quarantines and shutdowns that attempt to to contain the virus, which could hurt US factories that rely on parts and materials from abroad.
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During the industrial age, for example, European nations reinforced quarantines with "cordons sanitaires" — a ring of armed guards preventing the entry or exit of anyone deemed or feared ill with an epidemic disease.
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Reddit says it quarantines subreddits to "prevent its content from being accidentally viewed by those who do not knowingly wish to do so" and has users explicitly opt-in to view quarantined subreddits.
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A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restrictions and quarantines now imposed by China and other countries, including the United States.
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While there have been comparatively few confirmed infections in the United States, public health officials have warned that clusters of infection are very likely to appear, potentially resulting in quarantines and production slowdowns.
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This month, Chen Guangsheng, the deputy secretary general of Zhejiang's provincial government, called it "inappropriate" that some places had employed "simple and crude practices," like locking people into their homes to enforce quarantines.
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UPS has canceled 22 China flights, as a result of the Wuhan quarantines and normal manufacturing closures due to the Lunar New Year holiday, UPS Chief Executive David Abney said on Jan. 30.
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A White House task force announced a nationwide public health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak Friday, triggering mandatory quarantines for US citizens traveling from the epicenter of the disease in China's Hubei province.
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While the Act has been changed in recent years to give the CDC greater powers to quarantine people exposed to infectious diseases, the primary power to enforce quarantines resides with states and localities.
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Quarantines and other measures put in place to contain the outbreak could continue to disrupt electronics manufacturing well into the 0.109.55 holiday season, even if factories quickly return to full production, manufacturing experts said.
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The U.S. instituted travel restrictions on Sunday that include requiring returning U.S. citizens who have been in Hubei province — where Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus, is located — to face mandatory, 14-day quarantines.
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California health officials have said the state has confirmed 38 measles cases, pointing to a new challenge in their work to contain the disease which includes the quarantines at Cal State LA and UCLA.
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The State Department on Sunday advised Americans against traveling on cruise ships, warning that they presented a higher risk of coronavirus infection and made U.S. citizens vulnerable to possible international travel restrictions, including quarantines.
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It is impossible, at this early stage, to adequately quantify the economic effects of so much illness — and of the mass quarantines, lockdowns and voluntary "social distancing" in so many communities, companies and countries.
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The federal public health laws governing quarantines, for example, generally only allow the federal government to act when someone tries to enter the country from abroad, or when they attempt to cross state borders.
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The controversy that erupted Saturday when President Donald Trump threatened state quarantines was only the latest dispute over how the country balances individual liberties with community interests during a national crisis like no other.
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The impacts of telecommuting, shelter-in-place laws and home quarantines resulting from the COVID-403 outbreak are starting to impact broadband speeds across a number of U.S. cities, a new report has found.
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The economy in China came to a standstill starting in late January as the government locked down cities and implemented quarantines to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease, formally known as COVID-19.
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She added that digital platforms are playing a significant role in helping bookstores stay connected to their communities, even amid quarantines, allowing shops like hers to continue to stream events and reading hours remotely.
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In China, where the outbreak began late last year, officials imposed unprecedented quarantines and lockdowns on tens of millions of people, including 11 million residents in the outbreak's original epicenter, the city of Wuhan.
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The novel coronavirus has spooked markets because investors are afraid that the disease's spread will force countries to limit travel and shipping and enact quarantines that keep people from going to work or shopping.
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The rate of coronavirus in the Middle East is growing rapidly and governments are acting to contain and mitigate its spread — including curtailing or limiting international travel, prohibiting mass gatherings, and invoking universal quarantines.
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To slow the spread of the virus, South Africa and Colombia installed nation-wide quarantines this week that will run until mid-April, while Quebec province in Canada ordered non-essential businesses to close.
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Quarantines can target just individuals who have traveled to affected countries, or could end up involving large groups of people (say, if a school's entire student body may have been exposed to the infection).
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"The impact of unprecedented quarantines and restrictions on travel have brought the Chinese economy right now to a virtual standstill," Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday.
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CNN Business reported Wednesday that Hasbro is seeing the production of their Baby Yoda toys impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, since quarantines and travel restrictions in China have temporarily prevented workers from assembling toys.
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China, where the coronavirus outbreak originated, has imposed quarantines and urged its citizens to avoid crowded places, resulting in eerie images of empty sidewalks, roads and subway cars in cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Since late January, the Chinese government has implemented city-wide lockdowns and large-scale quarantines that effectively curbed the movements of millions in China as the country seeks to contain the COVID-19 virus.
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Some have complained that sites set up for quarantines do little to separate people who are already sick from those who have no symptoms, but who are from an area that experienced an outbreak.
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That's in addition to the border closures that have already happened around China and Iran, and the quarantines and travel restrictions in those and other countries that have often sprung up out of nowhere.
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While he was not sure if private shipping to China would get through the quarantines, he was hopeful that aid groups would be able to bring in the supplies they are managing to gather.
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The debate — including questions about whether mandatory 23-day quarantines, roadblocks and checkpoints are really necessary in areas where there have been few cases — is unusual in a country where dissent is frequently censored.
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The Chinese leadership is rallying its people to get back to work even as the country continues to battle with the coronavirus outbreak, amid city-wide lockdowns and quarantines in the worst-hit regions.
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At the time there was no vaccine to prevent the spread of the virus, and no antibiotics to treat secondary infections, so authorities resorted to non-medicinal interventions including quarantines, isolation, and increased sanitation.
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Public health law, when looking at measures that restrict autonomy -- such as quarantines or the ban -- generally balances the private interests affected with the public health, and allows reasonable measures to protect public health.
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New data from security firm Agari shows that out of over a thousand federal domains, 75 percent have a DMARC policy that either monitors, quarantines to your spam folder or entirely rejects all spoofed emails.
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An ICE spokesman did not comment directly about the quarantines at Aurora but said in an email that ICE is committed to ensuring that everyone in custody receives timely access to medical services and treatment.
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But most guidance stops there and fails to give unambiguous advice on when and how to limit gatherings, cancel big events, postpone travel and how, precisely, people should prepare for potential quarantines or hunkering down.
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But others — including those who have called for aggressive congressional action — say the plan would be an inefficient way of stoking consumer demand at a time of supply shortages and a growing number of quarantines.
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Princess Cruises is owned by Carnival so yes, despite the quarantines and cancellations and no sail orders (and the disaster that was the Diamond Princess), it is offering up to $200 in onboard credits, too.
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" She also noted that the RNC has "incredible reserves" when it comes to financial resources, and that "even during this month dominated by self-quarantines and social distancing we expect to post very strong numbers.
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Under the legislation, some voters could request and receive their ballots online and return them by either mail or to drop-boxes, in case the Postal Service slows down because of municipal lockdowns and quarantines.
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China, where the outbreak started, showed a marked reduction in pollution after the government imposed travel bans and quarantines, and the data from Italy, which was hit hard several weeks later, suggested a similar pattern.
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China, where the outbreak started, showed a marked reduction in pollution after the government imposed travel bans and quarantines, and the data from Italy, which was hit hard several weeks later, suggested a similar pattern.
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With nothing like Italy's lockdown, China's quarantines, or South Korea's rigorous case contact tracking and isolation in place across the country, there seems little hope of the peak in new cases coming any time soon.
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Transit passengers will be sent to their connecting flights, while non-transit passengers will be shuttled to a nearby processing venue from which they will be sent to designated places for compulsory 14-day quarantines.
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The social distancing and quarantines meant to fight the virus are proving devastating to entire industries, including restaurants and hospitality, and could leave workers in those fields and hourly workers unable to pay their bills.
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And again, the President laid down immediately, you know, travel restrictions, travel bans and quarantines to deal with the worst part of this thing and try to keep it as contained as best as possible.
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The move comes even amid reports that the mass quarantines in Wuhan have been marked by instances of chaos and disorganization, deepening anxiety and frustration in a city already on edge from a prolonged lockdown.
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While there are health screenings at US airports, quarantines for some passengers and even limits on who is allowed into the United States, a government official says there's no way to catch every infected person.
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Citing quarantines in Toronto during the SARS outbreak there in 221, he said that most people being quarantined accept it as "part of their civic responsibility to protect their community," once they understand the reasons.
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Hotels, restaurants, and fast-food chains most affectedThe outbreak and quarantines came in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holidays, one of the busiest times for shopping, travel, and eating out in China.
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But that doesn't mean each sick person will actually infect that many people; quarantines and other actions taken to control outbreaks of a virus can bring down the number of people a sick person infects.
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So not only does the evidence suggest that quarantines and travel restrictions don't work, it doesn't account for the devastating economic impact and potential harm to the outbreak response that such restrictions can bring about.
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Story at a glance New research suggests the coronavirus could be capable of beating a 14-day quarantine, but health officials in the U.S. say they are comfortable with two-week quarantines at this time.
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Citywide quarantines and fear of contagion are challenging the world's second largest economy as it attempts to go back to work in the midst of an ongoing epidemic that has killed at least 908 people.
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Ahead of increased quarantines and stress proliferated by the virus' unpredictability, Fried told his workers to take time off to prepare, sharing the letter on Twitter to encourage other companies to offer similar long weekends.
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Counties have broad legal authority to institute quarantines during outbreaks if it's in the interest of public health, and schools were keeping unvaccinated kids from showing up before the countywide ban was even in place.
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Chris Christie, who later set his sights set on the presidency, defying the federal government and calling for Ebola quarantines on health workers returning from West Africa on the eve of the 2014 general elections?
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"The expansion of the facility comes on the heels of two varicella (chicken pox) outbreaks within months of one another, subjecting dozens of inmates to lengthy quarantines," Crow wrote in the letter to Nielsen on Wednesday.
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He highlighted five industrial sectors that appear to be most at risk from the coronavirus and the resulting quarantines throughout the country: Transportation and warehouse industry, wholesale and retail trade, commercial real estate, entertainment, and manufacturing.
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As the number of coronavirus cases approached and passed the total from the 2003 SARS outbreak, cities in China became virtual ghost towns, with quarantines and fears of catching the virus leading people to stay indoors.
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At the height of Ebola panic in 2014, some state governments used a draconian measure to keep the virus from spreading within their borders: mandatory quarantines for people returning from West Africa, where Ebola was circulating.
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Quarantines in San Francisco's Chinatown The experts: Doug Chan, president of the Chinese Historical Society of America, and Marie Myung-Ok Lee, writer in residence at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
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In this case, unaddressed trauma from quarantines and social isolation, feeling one's own life is in danger, illness, or the loss of a loved one to coronavirus could have public health repercussions that reverberate for years.
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The vast majority of cases and deaths are still in mainland China, concentrated in Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital -- however, despite travel bans, mass quarantines and emergency measures in China, it continues to spread.
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Although the Missouri nurse said she understood the hospital's attempts to be conservative with testing due to the state's limited testing capacity, she alleged her hospital is forcing its employees into mandatory quarantines without testing them.
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Officials around the world are agonizing over how long to maintain curfews and quarantines that are essential to curb the pandemic but which are tipping the world into a deep recession, possibly even an economic depression.
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One after another, countries around the world on Sunday continued to implement extraordinary measures as they raced to contain the spread of the coronavirus, closing schools, shuttering restaurants and bars, mandating quarantines and severely limiting travel.
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There is also expectation in the markets that there could be a plan, supported by Democrats, to help workers who lose wages as a result of quarantines, reduced travel activity or other impacts of social distancing.
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The duo recently released QuarantineChat, a voice chat service that allows users to connect with other people around the world who may be in coronavirus quarantines, whether they are mandated by their government or self-imposed.
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Google has committed to paying contractors and hourly workers whose jobs are affected, and has also set up a fund to offer paid sick leave to anyone who can't work because of coronavirus symptoms and quarantines.
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The San Antonio Express described city officials' efforts to prevent the federal government from lifting the quarantines for 122 evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, who are currently housed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
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Representatives from some oil companies said perhaps the most important thing the White House could do was to handle the coronavirus outbreak, since the quarantines, canceled flights and other disruptions have sent demand for oil plummeting.
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Fla.).
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Travel bans, quarantines and the closure of restaurants and shops in western countries have raised fears of a self-fulfilling credit squeeze like the one that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers almost 230 years ago.
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Still, the company has been able to tackle the issues better than many labor-intensive companies that are struggling to restart operations because they lack staff due to the quarantines, isolated periods, road blockages and checkpoints.
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Look, immediately in January, against the advice of many health professionals, President Trump automatically put on travel bans with respect to China, and then we instituted quarantines for Americans coming back from China and foreign nationals.
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A growing number of people face 14-day quarantines as health officials around the world try to stem the tide of the outbreak, which has killed more than 900 people and infected more than 40,000 worldwide.
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Shanghai agreed on Tuesday to let trucks enter and leave the city with few health checks, even as people arriving in cars and buses remain subject to lengthy scrutiny and, in some cases, 14-day quarantines.
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Quarantines, travel bans, store closures, factory idling and social withdrawal spurred by the outbreak have taken a heavy toll on the Chinese economy and are expected to dampen U.S. growth in the first quarter as well.
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Yin Xin, a city government spokesman, told a briefing on Wednesday that residential areas should set up medical stations, report people with high temperatures and enforce 14-day quarantines for those returning from major infection zones.
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Yin Xin, a city government spokesman, told a briefing on Wednesday that residential areas should set up medical stations, report people with high temperatures and enforce 14-day quarantines for those returning from major infection zones.
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The complaint being filed on Monday in Connecticut also seeks to prevent that state from imposing quarantines on returning travelers in the future, particularly if Ebola re-emerges, as scientists have warned it is likely to do.
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MC: So one of the things that we're tracking here at WIRED is the ripple effects that the coronavirus outbreak is having across the economy because of these travel bans that you mentioned in the forced quarantines.
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Bera added that the mandatory quarantines "may be overkill," pointing to experts who say governments should opt for voluntary steps whenever possible, since people usually comply with self-quarantine orders to protect themselves and others from disease.
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Immigrant rights advocates and immigration attorneys have complained in the past that medical quarantines prevent them from visiting and representing migrants in detention, but authorities do not freeze the administrative and judicial processes that lead to deportations.
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Price, who is also the wife of former U.S. health secretary Tom Price, later told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in a statement that she was simply being "provocative" and that she is not in favor of quarantines.
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Interest rate cuts can also do little to soften the near-term hit from the virus, which is forcing the closure of offices and worker quarantines and delaying shipments of goods as infections spread across the globe.
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"Travel bans and overseas quarantines and travel screening and so on are not going to offer us much protection anymore," former director of the USAID's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance Jeremy Konyndyk told Vox's Alex Ward.
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The self-isolation and quarantines due to the virus increased the appeal of gaming stocks and food makers, with Nintendo Co Ltd jumping 5.3%, while Nichirei Corp and Yamazaki Baking Co Ltd advanced 1.5% and 5.8%, respectively.
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But this latest lesson may be a bitter pill to swallow, as it indicates that quarantines and social distancing must continue well beyond the initial wave of cases, if another round of infections is to be avoided.
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But in order to work, they say, we would have to suppress the virus — through social distancing and quarantines — for 18 months or more, which is the amount of time projected for a vaccine to be produced.
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And the question of who's going to pay for any quarantines outside the home comes amid warnings that the U.S. health care affordability crisis could exacerbate the disease if people avoid testing or treatment over cost concerns.
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Mark stops short of ripping Trump, but he's hopeful the Prez takes time to reevaluate things in 2 weeks instead of just opening the country back up for business and lifting quarantines and "stay at home" orders.
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Grocery stores have become an unexpected frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, as people facing quarantines and lockdown crowd in to hoard toilet paper, flour, and hand sanitizer (or just to absently browse, which is sick and wrong).
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In the House, a group of Democrats sent a letter to leadership asking for a change in the rules to allow for remote voting so that no one would be impeded by quarantines or potential travel restrictions.
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The ATP also recommended that its players remain in the United States if they intended to play in the Miami Open in order to avoid any quarantines brought about by leaving and then re-entering the country.
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In the weeks since the outbreak began, the US government has tried to both limit travel to China and set up screenings and quarantines to reduce the chance of admitting any more contagious people into the country.
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Azar, the health secretary, told lawmakers the United States would be unlikely to take measures such as regional quarantines, which China and other countries have been using, if the United States faced a more severe coronavirus outbreak.
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And while strict quarantines imposed by Chinese officials may have saved hundreds of thousands of people from infection, public health law experts in the US say there's no way such an aggressive approach could be enforced here.
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In all, quarantines were ordered for residents of more than 30 units of the Hong Mei House, which is part of the Cheung Hong Estate, a public housing block in the New Territories area of the city.
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This week, analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air estimated that government-directed quarantines and other restrictions due to the current coronavirus outbreak have temporarily reduced China's greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter.
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The agency already screens passengers at airports and other ports of entry for diseases, including the coronavirus, and could enforce isolation and quarantines throughout the country or in specific areas to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC UPS has cancelled 22 China flights, as a result of the Wuhan quarantines and normal manufacturing closures due to the Lunar New Year holiday, UPS Chief Executive David Abney said on Jan. 30.
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Owners of larger businesses, particularly export factories with thin profit margins, fear that if a single employee gets infected, local governments could force them to pay for two-week quarantines for dozens or even hundreds of workers.
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However, the complaint argues that the court should restrain the state's officials from imposing future quarantines on individuals in contravention of their constitutional rights, in light of an outbreak of the Zika virus and other potential emerging epidemics.
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SEOUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) - While North Korea has yet to publicly confirm any cases of the new coronavirus, authorities have doubled down on prevention efforts, extending quarantines and dispatching Red Cross workers around the country, state media said.
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And so they've actually announced a series of aggressive measures in the last week, including mandatory 14-day quarantines for any US citizens returning home from travels to the province that Wuhan is in, which is called Hubei.
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Quarantines, canceled commercial flights and declining business activity will make it tougher for China to increase its purchases of U.S. goods and services, as outlined in the "Phase One" trade deal signed this month at the White House.
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In some cases, authorities initially gave unclear or questionable guidance to the public, including during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, when local authorities called for quarantines and school closures despite dealing with a relatively mild strain of influenza.
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Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Subreddit r/The_Donald Over Anti-Police Threats Will Sommer broke the news that a notorious subreddit devoted to the president has been "quarantined," meaning that visitors will see a content advisory when they visit.
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Authorities said more quarantines could be introduced in Ukrainian regions hit with the flu the hardest, Sviatoslav Protas, chairman of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine, said in a statement released by the country's health ministry.
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Workers will be able to get unemployment benefits if their workplace needs to reduce hours or close temporarily because of quarantines or sick workers who fall ill with coronavirus, according to a news release from the governor's office.
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This move was immediately attacked in the language of cosmopolitan sophistication, which assumes that because travel bans and quarantines are associated with things liberals consider bad — nationalism, hardened borders, migration restrictions — they necessarily must not work as well.
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While those confirmed to have the virus were to be put in "proper isolation," according to Vice President Mike Pence, other passengers will be whisked to military bases, where they were set to wait out 14-day quarantines.
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Back then, when there were just three confirmed cases, shops and cafes were open, tourists flowed in and out of the country's magnificent holiday destinations, and quarantines were relegated to history: 14th-century Venice during the Black Death.
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The government will not give a T$1,000 daily subsidy for those doing home quarantines if they come back from one of the level-three countries, and fine those who provide false information on entry health declaration forms.
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They can be used to take temperatures of people in public areas or at ports of entry, collect nasal and throat samples for testing, act as telemedicine assistants, handle contaminated waste and even monitor compliance with voluntary quarantines.
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Nearly three months after the Skripals took ill, two more people, Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, were sickened at Mr. Rowley's house in Amesbury, a nearby town, and the cycle of fear, quarantines and public warnings began again.
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Still, prolonged quarantines of potentially millions of people could give Netflix a rare opportunity to prove its value proposition to a new audience after U.S. growth has plateaued over the past year at around 60 million U.S. subscribers.
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Google has set up a fund that will enable all contract and temporary workers globally to take paid sick leave should they need to due potential coronavirus symptoms or quarantines, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday.
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Given more people working from home and the potential to shy away from crowded restaurants, food delivery companies should benefit from an uptick in order frequency, assuming there are no city-wide quarantines (like those enacted in China).
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But the Imperial College researchers also said three months of social-distancing measures — such as household quarantines, closures of all schools and universities, and the isolation of infected patients — could cut the number of US deaths in half.
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Thomas Dekker, a not very well-known Elizabethan playwright eclipsed by the competition, wrote an account of the plague year called "The Wonderfull Yeare, 1603" in which a seventh of London's population died, despite shuttered theaters and quarantines.
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The "Shark Tank" star was on "TMZ Live" Thursday and while she's always on the hunt for real estate, she told us what she's seen in the market -- since widespread quarantines began -- and it's basically slim to none.
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SHANGHAI, March 19 (Reuters) - China's Shanghai on Thursday added eight more countries to its list of places from which travellers entering the city will be required to undertake 14 day quarantines, it said on its official WeChat account.
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At first glance, those might seem perfect for the current epidemic, which has caused quarantines that shut down factories in China, severed links in supply chains and disrupted business activity for hundreds of companies from Microsoft to Marriott.
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But the reverse scenario also creates problems: Imagine an impending pandemic scenario where quarantines or shelter in place orders require warehouse and delivery employees to stay home, causing panic when Amazon can no longer guarantee or fulfill orders.
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"Dozens of classified discussions about such topics as the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions have been held since mid-January in a high-security meeting room at the Department of Health and Human Services," Reuters reports.
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With much of China stuck at home due to quarantines and travel restrictions, demand for online services has surged, lining the pockets of billionaire founders such as Robin Li of Baidu, owner of popular online video platform iQiyi.
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Nevertheless, business leaders and economists are beginning to ask whether mandatory 14-day quarantines, roadblocks and checkpoints are really required across much of the country, especially in provinces far from Hubei where there have been fairly few cases.
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The CDC indicated that the national response to a widespread coronavirus outbreak would follow a 2017 plan for a similarly novel flu pandemic, triggering school and business closures, travel restrictions on outbreak regions, and quarantines of infected patients.
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Representatives of larger, denser, harder hit population centers would call for a delay over concerns that a mix of fear of further spread, illness, and quarantines—either officially recommended or self-imposed—will decimate turnout in their districts.
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The number of cases and deaths in the fast-spreading outbreak have continued to climb, spurring the United States to evacuate some of its citizens from China, issue a travel warning, and impose quarantines and a partial travel ban.
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With more than 50 confirmed avian flu cases in humans in less than a month, Seoul's response has included quarantines, a temporary ban on moving, and the precautionary slaughter of more than 12 percent of the country's poultry flock.
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In late January, Singapore, the city-state dubbed the "fine city," made the potentially painful economic decision to restrict entry from mainland China, installed extensive contact-tracing measures and ordered strict quarantines of anyone thought to have the virus.
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A month later, those entry restrictions were expanded to include people from certain regions devastated by the coronavirus in South Korea, Italy, and Iran as well as two-week quarantines for all visitors coming from China and South Korea.
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Case in point: This past weekend, the Washington Post ran an excellent report on why "social distancing," especially when the effort is stepped up, is superior to attempted quarantines and other less effective ways of combating a viral outbreak.
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But over the past few weeks, the flow of tourists has been reduced to a trickle as a result of quarantines, travel restrictions and a general reduction in visitors put in place to stop the spread of the illness.
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It has also inspired some lawmakers and activists to call for much broader use of mail-in voting, a way for Americans to cast their ballots despite the lockdowns, quarantines and limitations on crowds taking hold across the country.
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Quarantines — and general concern about a fast-spreading virus — can have a heavy impact on day-to-day life, but there are certain things you can do to help reduce your anxiety and keep your daily routine chugging along.
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The Trump administration has touted its move in January to bar foreign nationals who had recently visited China, the epicenter of the outbreak, from entering the US, and to mandate two-week quarantines for US citizens returning from China.
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That has led to hundreds of health care workers being sent home for just-in-case quarantines, and to stress on the medical systems in the states that first experienced community transmission, including Washington, California, Massachusetts, and New York.
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Some state and local public health agencies and political leaders have begun to order quarantines of people who might have been exposed to the virus and canceled schools and events in order to stop the progress of the disease.
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Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Ga.) and Rep.
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They include mounting a large-scale contact tracing effort, widespread testing, building up health care capacity before easing restrictions, making future quarantines more targeted, and allowing those who have recovered and have some immunity to go back to work.
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According to research published last week in the Lancet that included 24 previous studies on the psychological effects of quarantines during disease outbreaks, the experience can lead to post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression, confusion, anger, fear, and substance misuse.
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The hardest hit place in the United States has been a nursing home in a suburb of Seattle and Washington state is considering mandatory measures such as banning large gatherings but not necessarily imposing massive quarantines, the governor said.
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Studying infection Many countries have begun evacuating their citizens out of the worst hit areas of Hubei, while other nations, in addition to closing their borders to all visitors from China, are ordering mandatory quarantines of nationals returning home.
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Like the current outbreak, SARS led to the imposition of economically disruptive quarantines, which appear to have had a significant if temporary adverse effect on China's economy, and a modest negative impact on the world economy as a whole.
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Reports of travel bans, city quarantines, evacuations, and new cases "drive the public to become extremely fearful and prefer to stay away from commercial airport terminals and commercial aircraft cabins due to the increased levels of exposure," he said.
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In their early efforts to contain the rapidly spreading virus, authorities extended a week-long Lunar New Year holiday in late January by about 26.9999 days, instituted quarantines, and imposed restrictions on traffic in large parts of the country.
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The Trump administration in late January imposed travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines for at-risk citizens returning to the U.S. A White House official told CNBC on Monday that President Donald Trump is receiving "regular updates" on the virus.
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The Basque Country, one of Spain's wealthiest regions, earlier on Friday declared a health emergency, which regional president Inigo Urkullu said would allow the region to declare quarantines rapidly if needed, evacuate people and restrict access to some areas.
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Desperate to limit the reach of the virus, governments have imposed quarantines, encouraged workers to stay home and generally frightened people into avoiding travel, restaurants, trade shows and other activities that run the risk of encountering other human beings.
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C.), Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Ga.), Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Trump, GOP 'dog whistle' over coronavirus inflames anti-Chinese rhetoric online: analysis MORE (R-Ariz.), Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Fla.), Julia BrownleyJulia Andrews BrownleyAssistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' Actor Orlando Bloom to self-quarantine California governor calls for cancellations of large events MORE (D-Calif.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.).
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However, in emails from October 2014 sent to state officials and released as part of a Freedom of Information request filed by Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, public health specialists immediately questioned the quarantines as unscientific, unnecessary and politically driven.
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But quarantines and other measures put in place to stop the spread of the disease in China could continue to disrupt electronics manufacturing well into the 2020 holiday season, even if factories quickly return to full production, manufacturing experts said.
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There's also concern the outbreak could last for years, due to a deadly combination of the virus, pockets of community distrust of health and government workers, and periodic violent incidents that keep forcing the need for quarantines, vaccinations and treatment regimes.
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But while national leaders may be worried that travel restrictions and quarantines may be preventing companies from having enough workers to resume full production, that did not stop Beijing municipal leaders from further tightening controls in the city on Friday evening.
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When it comes to those quarantines, the incubation period "tells us how long it's reasonable to do that," said Justin Lessler, an author of the study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The President later rushed to clarify on Twitter that he was stopping travel and not trans-Atlantic trade in goods, and officials said his plan did not apply to Americans or US permanent residents -- though such travelers would face mandatory quarantines.
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The border closures, obstacles to travel and quarantines now being imposed in response the viruses are on the surface medical measures, but they are also symbolic, resonating with the same basic logic as the construction of physical walls for political reasons.
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Walmart, Uber, Lyft and other major companies with large numbers of hourly-wage or gig workers have rolled out new policies for paid leave or other financial assistance to those who contract the coronavirus or are subject to mandatory quarantines.
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SoftBank is not an investor in Airbnb, but if a bellwether company like that is considering taking external funding, it signals weakness in the overall IPO market -- especially for companies that will see major revenue declines with quarantines in place.
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Johanna Dalez, a Buenos Aires-based travel planner who coordinates 'tango vacations' for tourists, said the effect of a drop in travel and quarantines for those who arrive from places like the United States or Europe were rippling though the industry.
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CHICAGO, March 4 (Reuters) - Campbell Soup said it is ordering more ingredients to ensure it can keep enough soups, sauces and snacks on hand to meet growing demand from retailers as U.S. consumers hoard food in preparation for potential coronavirus quarantines.
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Bulgaria on Friday passed laws envisioning jail terms of up to 5 years for those who fail to observe quarantines for those who have been in contact with people who tested positive or who have returned from countries such as Italy.
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The health care industry wants the federal government to pay for mandatory quarantines of patients who may be carrying coronavirus but don't need hospital care — a potentially high-dollar request for the emergency funding bill now under negotiation in Congress.
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In a statement to Business Insider on Friday, an Uber spokesperson said that drivers diagnosed with the virus or otherwise affected by coronavirus quarantines would be able to receive compensation for up to 14 days to make up for lost revenue.
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CRUISE SHIP CRISIS The hardest-hit place in the United States has been a nursing home in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, and Washington state is considering mandatory measures such as banning large gatherings but not necessarily imposing massive quarantines.
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Governments across the world have taken a range of actions meant to hew closer to best-case outcomes, ranging from China's harsh crackdowns and enforced quarantines to South Korea's vast army of testers who screen motorists at drive-through stations.
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The front page of China's government-run English-language Global Times this weekend was highly critical of the responses in the United States, Britain and Sweden in particular, and China has now imposed its own quarantines on new arrivals from abroad.
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Johanna Dalez, a Buenos Aires-based travel planner who coordinates 'tango vacations' for tourists, said the effect of a drop in travel and quarantines for those who arrive from places like the United States or Europe were rippling though the industry.
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Between the deadly threat of a pandemic, a wobbly world economy, quarantines galore, the madness of King Donald, craven Senate Republicans, our favorite Democrats knocked out of the race and a vulnerable front-runner, I'm looking for signs of hope.
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The catalyst of this sudden fall was an outbreak that has spread swiftly across the globe, disrupting supply chains from Asia to Europe to the United States and forcing quarantines and travel restrictions that have ground entire countries to a halt.
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The short version is that even the most aggressive mitigation strategies — general social distancing, quarantines, closing schools — will not be enough to prevent US hospitals from being overwhelmed eventually unless we commit to such drastic measures until a vaccine becomes available.
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And as the focus of health experts and government officials has shifted from preventing the virus from taking hold in local regions to containing its spread, coronavirus memes have likewise shifted from jokes about hand-washing to jokes about quarantines.
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Its leaders have inaccurately pooh-poohed the prospect of quarantines as an anachronism, possibly delayed telling the public about initial coronavirus cases, planned to export the country's face masks to China and failed to be transparent with the international community.
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The U.S. is imposing a 14-day quarantine on citizens who have visited China's Hubei province — where Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus, is located — and self-quarantines for citizens who have been in China in the last 14 days.
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The unforgiving quarantines and swiftly implemented bans on travel, traffic, and assembly were only possible with authoritarian muscle and "questionable" ethics that seemed to further hurt already sick people, forcing them to walk for miles in order to seek out care.
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Because of the coronavirus outbreak, many Chinese factories and suppliers were forced to remain closed longer than expected following the Chinese New Year holiday, and travel restrictions and quarantines for workers have hampered their ability to quickly return to full capacity.
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In Wuhan, a city of 11 million, both patients who believe they have been infected by the coronavirus and people with other medical problems are having difficulty seeing doctors: Shortages are common at such times, and quarantines only compound them.
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Led by Canadian epidemiologist Bruce Aylward, the team found that the measures imposed by Chinese officials—which relied primarily on quarantines, social distancing, and tracing known contacts of Covid-212 patients—may have saved hundreds of thousands of people from infection.
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In Wuhan, a city of 11 million, both patients who believe they have been infected by the coronavirus and people with other medical problems are having difficulty seeing doctors: Shortages are common at such times, and quarantines only compound them.
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But while national leaders may be worried that travel restrictions and quarantines may be preventing companies from finding enough workers to resume full production, that did not stop Beijing municipal leaders from further tightening controls on Friday evening in the city.
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" In nearly 50 tweets, as well as in appearances on Fox News and other networks, Mr. Trump supported flight bans and strict quarantines and branded President Barack Obama's deployment of troops to West Africa to fight the disease as "morally unfair.
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Despite China's arsenal of high-tech surveillance tools, the controls are mainly enforced by hundreds of thousands of workers and volunteers, who check residents' temperature, log their movements, oversee quarantines and — most important — keep away outsiders who might carry the virus.
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Already one of the most closed-off countries in the world, North Korea has stopped flights and train services with its neighbours, established month-long mandatory quarantines, suspended international tourism, and imposed a near-complete lockdown on cross-border travel.
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However, other officials weren't sure if these quarantines would be effective: "To my knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science," Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization's representative in China, told the Associated Press.
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Already one of the most closed-off countries in the world, North Korea has stopped flights and train services with its neighbors, established month-long mandatory quarantines, suspended international tourism, and imposed a near-complete lockdown on cross-border travel.
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According to NPR, Doctors Without Borders issued a statement saying: "It has been our experience that lockdowns and quarantines do not help control Ebola, as they end up driving people underground and jeopardizing the trust between people and health providers."
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In June, an ICE official told CNN that the agency had successfully prevented communicable diseases from spreading in the past, but added that the recent wave of quarantines would likely lead to increased time in detention and delays in deportations.
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"Experts say that quarantines like the Diamond Princess aren't only useless, they're also ineffective — and possibly illegalBioethicist and Rogue Bioethics co-founder Kelly Hills said that the quarantine on board the Diamond Princess wasn't just ineffective, it was "absolutely pointless.
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Adalja said at this point, nearly two full months into the COVID-19 outbreak, that the virus is "not containable" and instead of quarantines, the focus now should be on "hospital preparedness, vaccine development, antiviral clinical trials," and better diagnostic tests.
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Right now, though, in our coronavirus-induced quarantines, everyone's just looking for something to do and a place to say things for the sake of saying them, hence all the random thoughts on Facebook and the unfiltered videos on Instagram.
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Quarantines are only advised for diseases that can be easily identified, progress quickly and are contagious enough via transmission methods like casual physical contact or the air to pose a risk to the general public, none of which really apply to HIV.
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"School closures, isolation of the sick, home quarantines of those who have come into contact with the sick, social distancing, telework and large-gathering cancellations must be implemented before the spread of the disease in any community reaches 1 percent," Bossert wrote.
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If we do see very large, uncontained outbreaks in the US, like the one currently being fought in the Lombardy region of Italy, outright bans on many forms of economic activity that come with mass quarantines will have a massive impact on growth.
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"The Government of the DPRK should allow full and unimpeded access to medical experts and humanitarian actors, and relax restrictions on access to information," Ojea said, urging the government to adhere to rights standards during lockdowns, quarantines and treatment of potential patients.
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Trump officials did make a good decision a month ago to ban non-US citizens who had recently visited China from entering the United States and they also imposed two-week quarantines on Americans who had visited Hubei province where the virus originated.
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It found even the most aggressive mitigation strategies — general social distancing, quarantines, closing schools — would not be enough to prevent US hospitals from eventually being overwhelmed unless the country is willing to commit to these drastic measures until a vaccine becomes available.
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"The Government of the DPRK should allow full and unimpeded access to medical experts and humanitarian actors, and relax restrictions on access to information," Ojea said, urging the government to adhere to rights standards during lockdowns, quarantines and treatment of potential patients.
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CRUISE SHIP CRISIS The hardest-hit place in the United States has been a nursing home in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, and Washington state is considering mandatory measures such as banning large gatherings but not necessarily imposing massive quarantines, the governor said.
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The majority of cases in the U.S. are on the West Coast in California and Washington, where Messonnier said that there will likely be more widespread efforts to prevent further community spread in those regions, such as quarantines and work and school closures.
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In other words, Facebook doesn't make money off certain forms as easily (or at all) as it does its core News Feed, and advertisers are also spending less on ads due to the associated economic impacts of COVID-19 and the associated quarantines.
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For example, the World Health Organization's assistant director general Bruce Aylward recently credited rapid testing of suspect cases, the immediate isolation of suspected or confirmed cases, and quarantines of 2 weeks for close contacts with stopping the spread of the coronavirus in China.
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State governments, as well as some large cities, have the power to order mass quarantines, or the practice of isolating people who may have been exposed to a virus in order to prevent them from spreading the illness before they start experiencing symptoms.
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Only regulation can ensure global supply chains will be made more reliable and redundant; only smart policy can fix medical systems held hostage to profit-driven business models and administered by MBAs and lawyers; only quarantines can save our hospitals from imminent collapse.
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Quarantines and travel bans can make it just as impossible for workers to do their jobs as destruction from a fire, flood or earthquake, but do not cause the physical damage to workplaces that is necessary to trigger successful business interruption claims.
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"A premature relaxation of quarantines and travel restrictions could lead to a relapse that would be far more dangerous than the outbreak at present," said Roach, who lived in China from 2007 until 2012 during his tenure as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
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"School closures, isolation of the sick, home quarantines of those who have come into contact with the sick, social distancing, telework and large-gathering cancellations must be implemented before the spread of the disease in any community reaches 1 percent," he wrote.
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LIVE UPDATES: Coronavirus spreads to more countries as markets take historic tumble The Washington congresswoman said they're unprepared "on multiple levels," including on the local level as well as when it comes to resources like masks, testing kits and the possibility of quarantines.
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State governments, as well as some large cities, have the power to order quarantines, or the practice of isolating people who may have been exposed to a virus in order to prevent them from spreading the illness before they start experiencing symptoms.
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Experts say that quarantines work best during the earliest stages of an outbreak, but that they can also backfire, causing medical shortages, corroding trust in health officials and pushing some people to look to evade care to escape any restriction on their rights.
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Amid reports that the coronavirus had spread well beyond China and that Beijing might lower its guard and ease its quarantines, the American market suffered its worst day in two years and ended down by nearly 5 percent from its peak last week.
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As coronavirus continues to spread—with confirmed cases in 26 countries—the comparisons to Contagion have been unavoidable on social media; after all, the movie also has citywide quarantines, airport shutdowns, and harried CDC scientists who are racing to find a cure.
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The legal complaint, a draft of which was shared with The New York Times, challenges both the decision to use quarantines in an attempt to prevent Ebola's spread and the procedures the state put in place under an Ebola emergency order issued on Oct.
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Already one of the most closed-off countries in the world, North Korea has stopped airline flights and train service with its neighbours, established weeks-long mandatory quarantines for recently arrived foreigners, suspended international tourism, and imposed a near-complete lockdown on cross-border travel.
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"For that, and other reasons, I do not believe we're going to be able to keep the virus out of our border," she said, adding that a bigger concern is that the travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines are diverting resources away from fighting the virus.
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Experts had hoped the number of new cases of the coronavirus had eased somewhat because of quarantines put in place in China and elsewhere since last month, but today the spread of the respiratory disease appears to be back on the rise (The Associated Press).
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"In this context it became necessary, even imperative, to find a solution to end the crisis that responds to the legitimate demands of the Algerian people and which quarantines the rules of the constitution," Salah was quoted by the state news agency APS as saying.
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Check your smartphone (The New York Times) Cannabis commission quarantines marijuana oil vapes, effectively extending ban (Boston Globe) More adolescents seek medical care for mental health issues (California Health Line) MD Anderson patient feds reported dead is still alive (Houston Chronicle) View the discussion thread.
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Apple assembles the vast majority of iPhones and buys a substantial number of parts in China, and factories in the country have been slow to get back to full production after the Lunar New Year holiday because of quarantines and a shortage of labor.
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But as with local quarantines and closings — all of which emphatically do work, whether you're looking at the history of the Spanish flu or Hong Kong's success combating the coronavirus today — you don't need 100 percent effectiveness for travel restrictions to be wise and helpful.
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Lindsay Wiley, a health law professor at the Washington College of Law, told Vox that the term can refer to anything from mandatory geographic quarantines to mere recommendations to stay at home, closures of certain types of businesses, or bans on events and gatherings.
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As the US government prepares for a potential months-long fight against Covid-19, extroverts will need to learn to create their own plans on how they might manage their own psyche as social distancing, quarantines and shelter in place orders become more commonplace.
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While some are nervous about being in close proximity to other people on airplanes or in airports, and others — thanks to nightmare stories about quarantines — are worried about traveling anywhere away from home, there's one group of people that can't avoid flying: Flight attendants.
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Rebuffing the precautionary isolation measures his own aides were taking, Trump will spend the weekend sifting through options with White House staff — some of whom are fresh off self-quarantines — about the mechanics of a bailout for industries devastated financially by the virus outbreak.
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The government's failure to implement stricter quarantines risks not only overwhelming the healthcare system but also setting the stage for a "second wave" of infections in the middle of the country after infections in coastal cities peak in mid-April, according to the firm.
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The coronavirus will accelerate the shift to digital and e-commerce Mandated quarantines and social distancing across the globe as a result of the pandemic means that people are spending more time inside and online, getting more comfortable with video conferencing and shopping online.
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"The situation has now become such that operating as a travel company involves significant risks of quarantines or medical detentions, which could diminish the travel experiences for which our guests have been planning," Viking's founder, Torstein Hagen, wrote in a statement posted to its website.
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With most of China due to return to work on Monday, the concern will be how far the virus will now spread, and whether the country's economy can bear the type of further quarantines and travel restrictions that may be necessary to rein it in.
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Outside of China — where the scale of the epidemic still far outpaces the rest of the world and where whole cities have been locked down over the past two months — quarantines have proved an effective measure to at least slow the spread of the virus.
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But with cases climbing, top Trump administration officials have sharply escalated their response amid fears of a contagion coming to the US. President Donald Trump -- who weeks earlier downplayed the outbreak -- has now issued strict new measures, including unprecedented quarantines and new travel bans.
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" Georgetown Law professor Lawrence Gostin told Business Insider in an email that other COVID-19 quarantines taking place in military bases around the US, where hundreds more people have been confined, "appear to be lawful," but said "the key issue is whether they are justified.
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Quarantines and other measures put in place to contain the virus are expected to disrupt the global supply chain as many companies have production factories in China or rely on the country for various components — some analysts have even predicted potential delays in iPhone shipments.
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"People who've never shown signs of Ebola can't pass the disease," added Ms. Roth, a co-author of a report on Ebola-related quarantines in the United States that was released in December by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership.
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In a brief filed in January, New Jersey's acting attorney general argued that the court should dismiss the case because Ms. Hickox, when she returned, had elevated temperature readings and could reasonably have posed a danger, and state law immunizes public officials from prosecution for imposing quarantines.
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While the nation struggles to contain the growing threat of measles, experts predict that more universities will see outbreaks like that at UCLA and Cal State LA. And while public health officials scramble to identify everyone who might be at risk, quarantines are a likely option.
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But lockdowns and forced quarantines on this scale or the nature of some methods — like the collection of mobile phone location data and facial recognition technology to track people's movements — cannot readily be replicated in other countries, especially democratic ones with institutional protections for individual rights.
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The top coronavirus-related search was for "coronavirus satellite," in reference to a series of news stories, including one by the New York Times, that used satellite imagery to illustrate the drastic impact coronavirus quarantines have had on public spaces, with formerly crowded destinations apparently barren.
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Quarantines in China limit US inventory, while Barzvi worries about her colleagues abroadTo facilitate her brisk sales, Barzvi, who manufactures in China, normally keeps her stateside inventory levels at approximately 20,000 units of each of the dozen-plus products she sells via her website and on Amazon.
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And, as it always should, America is engaging with the world to limit this problem by offering its best scientists to work on a solution while taking appropriate measures, like quarantines and travel restrictions, to keep American citizens safe from the spread of disease here at home.
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While disability insurance is meant to replace income when you're unable to work, "social quarantines don't cause policies to pay out unless you've been affected by the illness itself," Nicholas Mancuso, senior operations manager of the advanced planning and disability team at Policygenius, told Business Insider.
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Taiwan's approach, combining early controls on Chinese visitors, vigorous contact tracing for all cases, technology and now stringent 0003-day quarantines for all arrivals, has won it praise and support around the world, including from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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But the truth is we had the right symptoms from the right part of the world to be coronavirus, from when we flew home from Hong Kong on January 4, before any major news or pandemic talk or testing or quarantines (even Wuhan) or travel restrictions.
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The Fed may have limited ability to counteract any global economic fallout from the coronavirus, since its tools work to stoke demand — if factories are not producing goods and supply chains are disrupted by quarantines, cutting rates to make borrowing cheaper may do little to help.
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The quarantines began two weeks ago, and the coronavirus is thought to have an incubation period of up to 14 days, which is leading to questions about how well the measures have worked, especially after China locked down Guangzhou City, population 14 million, just this Friday.
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The death of two elderly cruise ship passengers infected with a novel coronavirus, announced by the Japanese government on Thursday, has health experts pointing to the flulike potential spread of the COVID-19 illness worldwide, and the dangers of quarantines in closed environments like cruise ships.
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"All of the evidence we have indicates that travel restrictions and quarantines directed at individual countries are unlikely to keep the virus out of our borders," Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week.
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I'll be self quarantining finishing up my album ✌🏽 The concert served as a PSA, too -- Swae announced the name of his new album, 'Human Nature,' and it looks like he's following up on his vow to finish the project while he quarantines amid the outbreak.
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In China and Italy, policy measures are already underway to help, and there are calls for similar moves in the U.S. If the new coronavirus causes workers to take sick days; customers to stay home; and officials to order quarantines, it will be hard on all American companies.
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The quarantines and local-level lockdowns put in place to combat the coronavirus outbreak will likely cause Chinese economic output to decline in the first three months of the year -- the first contraction in more than four decades for what was formerly one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
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The gulf in perception over an outwardly nonpolitical issue underscores how signals from politicians and media outlets have played a critical role in shaping how seriously Americans are taking a viral outbreak that has overwhelmed health care systems and triggered mass quarantines in several countries around the world.
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"All of those things should have been taking Netflix down more, and I think it's actually holding up OK." Moreover, "microtrends" like the boost Netflix could get from people signing up during their coronavirus quarantines "don't really matter that much" in the grand scheme of things, Sanchez said.
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We consulted Victor Carrion, Stanford's vice chair of psychiatry and director of the Stanford pediatric anxiety program, and parents living through quarantines for their advice on how to educate your kids about the current situation, and how to keep them intellectually stimulated while they're stuck at home. Takeaways?
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Seattle and King County Director of Public Health Patty Hayes on Monday said the region's public officials are "at the ready" to impose quarantines or cancellations of events as the state has prepared five levels of actions it could take for containment and mitigation, the Seattle Times reported.
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That can lead to a game of chicken between the two parties, with each side pushing their coronavirus tolerance to the maximum, said James Dungan, a Chicago resident who canceled his destination wedding in Austin, Texas on March 29 and hasn't rescheduled given the uncertainty of coronavirus quarantines.
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Fla.), Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Trump, GOP 'dog whistle' over coronavirus inflames anti-Chinese rhetoric online: analysis MORE (R-Ariz.) and Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Ga.), and Sen.
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Fla.), Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Ga.), Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Trump, GOP 'dog whistle' over coronavirus inflames anti-Chinese rhetoric online: analysis MORE (R-Az.).
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Fla.), Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' MORE (R-Ga.), and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarScalise to self-quarantine in response to Diaz-Balart test Florida Republican becomes first lawmaker to test positive for coronavirus Trump, GOP 'dog whistle' over coronavirus inflames anti-Chinese rhetoric online: analysis MORE (R-Az.), as well as Sen.
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Penske Media, which owns WWD, Variety, and Rolling Stone, advised staffers to work from home for at least 14 days following their return if they've traveled to a coronavirus-impacted area, while Meredith Corp, which owns InStyle and People, recommended voluntary two-week quarantines for those coming back from Milan.
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Julia BrownleyJulia Andrews BrownleyAssistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' Actor Orlando Bloom to self-quarantine California governor calls for cancellations of large events MORE (D-Calif.), among others — announced this week that they were self-quarantining, after interacting with people who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
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With most of the world being forced to spend their days inside, due to COVID-19 quarantines and social distancing, our editorial team thought it would be fun to recommend our top five military movies that you can watch at home as you look for ways to pass the time.
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Since China is the world's largest producer of industrial goods (in particular, basic parts), often at the world's lowest prices, the widespread quarantines in the region are already proving debilitating: the number of bulk freight shipments has fallen over 70% since January and some 40% of China's trucking capacity remains offline.
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The government has since imposed full or partial quarantines and travel restrictions on 16 cities, affecting more than 50 million people; extended the Chinese Lunar New Year to reduce travel; and banned the trade of wild animals, which are suspected of being the source of the disease, throughout the country.
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"The problem of enacting a quarantine is that it's such a disruptive social measure, economically, socially, culturally … that you only use it as your last resort, like your nuclear option," said Dr. Howard Markel, professor at the University of Michigan school of public health, who has studied quarantines and epidemics.
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That has led one gaming industry expert to say the ripple effect of the virus and fears of a pandemic, including quarantines and travel warnings and restrictions, should be a "wake-up call" for the Chinese government and casino interests throughout Asia that it is time to legalize online gambling.
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What it's liked to be trapped in the quarantine: "As China and governments around the world impose hastily concocted quarantines, travel bans and evacuations, mixed-nationality couples and families looking to leave China have found themselves divided by citizenship status," our colleague Miriam Berger writes in her story about such mixed-nationality couples.
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation organized workshops in 2015 that identified three broad areas where robotics can make a difference: clinical care such as telemedicine and decontamination; logistics such as delivery and handling of contaminated waste; and reconnaissance including monitoring compliance with voluntary quarantines.
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But as Vox's Dylan Scott has explained, "even the most aggressive mitigation strategies — general social distancing, quarantines, closing schools — will not be enough to prevent US hospitals from being overwhelmed eventually unless we commit to such drastic measures until a vaccine becomes available," a process that could take up to 18 months.
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Here's how companies have responded to the outbreak, which orginated in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province: TRAVEL ADVISORIES/EVACUATIONS/QUARANTINES: * Facebook asked employees to halt non-essential travel to mainland China and to work from home if they had travelled after an extended Lunar New Year break ends on Feb. 2.
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In the wake of the outbreak and because of the possibility of home quarantines to combat the spread of the disease, some insurers have waived refill limits for prescription drugs, including members of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, such as Blues plans in Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington.
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Voting-by-mail equipment, such as industrial-size scanners and secure boxes where voters can drop off their ballots, are also made by just a handful of companies that may not be able to ramp up production fast enough – especially as they're also strained by quarantines and financial woes brought on by the pandemic.
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Some of the biggest challenges have been within the health department, with the Centers for Disease Control revising its quarantines, opposing the evacuation of the Diamond Princess cruise ship — despite evidence that a quarantine imposed by Japanese authorities had failed and infections were spreading — and raising general questions about the agency's level of preparedness.
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Sports Briefing | Horse Racing Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino officials traveled to Albuquerque to meet with New Mexico Racing Commission officials, veterinarians and others in the racing industry, who are all working to get a handle on the equine herpes outbreak that has infected dozens of horses and prompted quarantines at tracks in southern New Mexico and Arizona.
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Read: Coronavirus live updates: Death toll in China hits 490, as confirmed cases cross 193,000 The fast-spreading infection is already starting to have an impact on China: travel numbers have declined due to restrictions and quarantines, businesses are feeling the impact from falling demand, and large swathes of the country remain shut, including many factories.
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Investigators in early August detected fipronil, a flea poison, in slightly higher than acceptable levels on Dutch chicken farms, leading quickly to culls, quarantines and other measures to prevent further production of contaminated eggs.. In the following days, millions of Dutch chicken eggs and products containing egg were recalled in countries around Europe and as far away as Asia.
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There are more than 8,85033 confirmed cases of the illness in China, claiming 137 lives, and nearly 100 cases in other countries including the U.S. Quarantines, travel bans and store closures are expected to take a significant toll on the Chinese economy, and nations with close economic ties to China are likely to suffer as well.
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Realistically, if a US government resorts to quarantines to control the spread of coronavirus, there is likely to be a brief period of legal chaos where judges across the country try to make sense of existing precedents — often reaching contradictory results in the process — until the Supreme Court steps in to hand down a nationwide rule.
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For Americans, there are two major types of financial shocks to worry about if you fall ill with coronavirus: income loss and medical costs, Rob Levy, vice president of the Financial Health Network, tells CNBC Make It. About 45% of those surveyed by Prudential are worried about how quarantines will affect their ability to work for several weeks.
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Chinese demand has already dropped by about 20% in the last several months, and with quarantines already in Italy and a slowdown in travel, demand is also falling in Europe and the U.S. In the U.S. the economies of oil producing states, like Texas and North Dakota are expected to be hardest hit by an energy slowdown.
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Read more: Walmart leadership is urging its 9,000 'Elite Fleet' truck drivers to buy cleaning supplies with their company cards amid coronavirus fearsThe companies who are asking employees to work from home and the areas that have implemented quarantines are hoping that, by quickly moving to limit people's interactions with each other, the spread of coronavirus will ease.
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A large number of factories around China that make products ranging from auto parts to iPhones to Bratz dolls have been closed since before Lunar New Year in late January, and transportation of goods slowed almost to a halt last month as the government imposed severe travel restrictions, work stoppages, and quarantines on hundreds of millions of people.
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The CDC specified only that the patient was in California; the California Department of Public Health announced that the patient was a resident of Solano County—which, as other reports have pointed out, is the location of one of the Air Force bases being used for quarantines of people who've returned to the US from countries with the disease.
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When you get like an attachment in an email or something, it sandboxes it, quarantines it and then goes through and combs for the malicious types of things that can be embedded in PDFs and cleans everything out and then spits out a version for you that you can be a lot more confident it's safe.
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On Tuesday, in addition to touting her plan to combat infectious disease outbreaks, Warren whacked the administration for appearing to play down the "health, diplomatic, and economic threat" posed by the epidemic while praising the response of Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose authoritarian government has responded to the disease's rapid spread with widespread mandatory quarantines and travel restrictions.
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There were smaller quarantines during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but those led to violent protests and a distrust of public health authorities, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the WHO's Center on Global Health Law, adding that the move could even hamper the outbreak response.
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Americans, Canadians, Australians, and people from Hong Kong on the ship have been given the option to fly home to dry land for another 14-day period of isolation, and the most elderly, vulnerable passengers over 80 years old on the ship have been offered rooms and bento boxes on land to finish out their quarantines.
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In sum, states and cities need immediate financing to buy equipment and protective gear, reconfigure and expand health facilities, train tens of thousands of personnel in disease control protocols for self-isolation, quarantines, and protective facilities and hire and train tens of thousands of social support workers to enable the elderly and others in isolation to survive for weeks or months.
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Like Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR), it's also become a key part of internet culture: The Facebook Group "Zoom Memes for Self Quarantines," with nearly 2000,289 members, offers a steady stream of jokes, ranging from a video of a student pretending Zoom is glitchy to get out of a homework assignment to a professor starting a lesson with cameos from stuffed animals.
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Senator urges Uber, Lyft, Instacart and others to offer gig workers financial security in light of COVID-19 concerns As cities and states encourage (or in some cases mandate) social distancing and self-quarantines as a response to limit the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, huge swaths of America's service sectors will be affected.
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Two high profile quarantines – the Diamond Princess off the coast of Japan and the Grand Princess off the coast of California – have raised questions as to whether the cruise lines are taking the right steps to minimize the risk of infection from the virus, which has resulted in more than 43,000 confirmed cases globally, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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The president abruptly announced last week that Meadows would become his fourth chief of staff and that Mick MulvaneyMick MulvaneyDozens of Democrats raise concerns over 'public charge' rule and coronavirus response Feehery: Mulvaney fit for Northern Ireland post Meadows self-quarantines after possible exposure to coronavirus patient MORE would move into the role of U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland.
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The North Carolina Republican, who was set to retire from Congress at the end of the year, will leave Capitol Hill early to replace Mick MulvaneyMick MulvaneyDozens of Democrats raise concerns over 'public charge' rule and coronavirus response Feehery: Mulvaney fit for Northern Ireland post Meadows self-quarantines after possible exposure to coronavirus patient MORE as Trump's chief of staff.
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Later on, arguing for the importance of seemingly irrational beliefs, she tells Deen that many Venetians are still convinced the Black Death ended in Venice not because the sensible city administrators, whose "faith in the power of human reason was limitless," established quarantines and curfews but because a young girl hung a painting of the Blessed Virgin at the entrance to her neighborhood.
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While those powers vary by jurisdiction, they generally include the ability to impose curfews, order people and traffic off the street, mandate quarantines, ration goods, declare price controls, suspend alcohol consumption and limit public gatherings, according to Elizabeth Goitein, a director of the liberty and national security program at the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.
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Julia BrownleyJulia Andrews BrownleyHouse Democrats eyeing much broader Phase 2628 stimulus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines out of 'abundance of caution' Actor Orlando Bloom to self-quarantine MORE (D-Calif.), who just finished a 28503-day self-quarantine after being exposed to someone with the virus, proposed that the federal government offer death benefits to families of TSA officers who die from the coronavirus.
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The distancing measures that are getting put in place in many cities and countries — which includes closing schools, restaurants, theaters and other places where people congregate, and extend also to fully locked-down quarantines with people staying in their homes — are an unprecedented disruption of our daily lives, and that's putting a lot of focus on communication platforms like Messenger and the internet to keep us connected.
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