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Emirates flight crew being loaded into Ambulances at JFK Airport after about 100 become ill with temperatures over 100 degrees on flight from Dubai. Aircraft remains quarantined.pic.twitter.com/5zXrgGpBu3
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BREAKING: An Emirates A380 in quarantine at JFK Airport right now awaiting CDC officials after about 100 passengers became ill with fevers over 100 degrees and coughing. Flight 203 had just arrived from Dubai.pic.twitter.com/lyUgNbMaEW
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Statement: Emirates can confirm that about 10 passengers on
#EK203 from Dubai to New York were taken ill. On arrival, as a precaution, they were attended to by local health authorities. All others will disembark shortly. The safety & care of our customers is our first priority.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m on this flight right now! Seems like the sick passengers are in the lower deck in economy. I’m traveling in the upper deck.
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Did you have the steak or fish?
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The correct response is, “ah yes I remember. I had the lasagna”
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Can't find that gif
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Wish i could like this 20 times
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Umm.. All the movies that start with this scene do not end well.
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Somebody call Hugh Laurie
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This is ridiculous. They quarantined the plane but they are loading ambulances with the people presenting these symptoms to be transported to hospitals. Does that make sense to anybody????
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They shouldn't go to the hospital? That's where they treat infectious diseases
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No...they should go to a safe space where it wouldn’t be spread amongst those with the most compromised immune systems until they know what it is. Could be food poisoning, but they need to know before they expose others to whatever it is...since it happened to so many at once
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A hospital is just such a safe place. The times when hospitals are not safe places are when people self present to the emergency department and have sat in waiting rooms and cafeterias and corridors for six hours before we realise they need to be isolated. This isn’t that.
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Sorry -- my wording was unclear. I didn't mean to imply that people shouldn't present to an ED, but that by its very nature the risk of spread comes when someone with a virulent pathogen has arrived in hospital through "normal channels", which these people won't have.
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I don’t mind learning, but Do we know that they don’t?
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100%? No, because I didn't witness this one first hand. But hospitals have protocols for how they deal with high-risk fever in recent travellers, and if they know the person is coming those protocols are in place before the person arrives and they're isolated immediately.
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