Coronavirus fears prompt hoaxes and misinformation
Friday that will last 14 days from when the plane left China — the CDC’s first mandatory quarantine in more than 50 years.and announced it would temporarily bar foreign nationals who have traveled in China in the last two weeks from entering the country. And public health officials announced that a Santa Clara County man who had recently returned from Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the seventh case in the country and the third in the state.
USC followed up its initial alert with several other messages answering frequently asked questions and held“What we really want to try to do is not minimize it but help people put the risk of this in context, and I think that’s really helping,” Van Orman said.that a patient, described only as a man in his 50s, was found to have coronavirus“That social media report was generated fairly widely,” said Dr. Cindy Vyskocil, the college’s acting president. “It caused tremendous concern.
Since then, the school has continued to contact health officials twice a day to learn the status of the county’s coronavirus case, and has been providing students with regular updates, Vyskocil said.
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