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Speaker 1 (00:00):
ABC News correspondent. He is out of Dallas, Texas. Jim
Ryan is joining us now, and Jim, you are, well,
you're a few degrees warmer than we are. Just kind
of looked up your weather because I was kind of curious.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But I think by and.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Large, you guys are you're okay with this kind of
cooler weather because you guys get sweltering.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Man when it gets yeah, seventy five right now where
I am, and yeah, I'll take that for the rest
of this month, but obviously it'll be well, yesterday was ninety,
so yeah, it's changeable.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, well that's good. I mean, yeah, this is that's crazy.
Are you guys used to that? Biggest swings in Dallas?
Like you go from ninety to seventy five today?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It depends on what's happening. I mean, a big cold
front moves in or he comes in. Yeah. Can it
can vary twenty twenty five degrees in a day.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't know if Greg Gabbitt's passed it you or not,
but I understand once he hits ninety, the stets and
will become optional.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The stets is okay, perfect, I like it, So get
your stetson out.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jim, I guess if you're going to need.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That, I suppose got it on.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So, yeah, this hantavirus cruise ship, I just nicknamed it that.
Clearly they I'm sure they don't want it called that
or what have you, but it's just the easiest way
for people to kind of kind of familiar or be
familiar with what we're talking about. But yeah, this is
this something that kind of started out like a little
bit of a I don't know, It's like you saw
it and you go, okay, that's a story, and then
(01:21):
it just kept getting bigger and bigger, and then now
you got people going, oh, yeah, here we go again
kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But what is the very latest on.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
This, Jim?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, I think if it hadn't happened five years after coronavirus,
then it might have gone pretty much unnoticed, right, I mean,
but against the backdrop of that, against the pandemic people
starting Wait a minute, cause this thing spread it. Is
it possible that once people are off that ship and
walking around in my neighborhood that I could catch hout
a virus? Probably not, But yeah, the ship, now all
(01:50):
the passengers and crew who are leaving it there will
still be a skeleton crew on there to try to
get the ship back to the Netherlands. But yeah, twenty
three countries. People from twenty three countries were aboard that ship,
the passengers and crew, about one hundred and fifty all together.
They now have been taken off. The Americans have come
back to the US, the Spanish have gone back to Spain.
(02:11):
The people have essentially dispersed two points all over the
world to be repatriated and tested and monitored. And that's
what's happening now with the folks who came back to
the US overnight.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
How many of them fifteen are is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I believe it's eighteen eighty seventeen Americans and one brit
who has dual citizenship that lives here in this country.
So they were taken to believe it or not, the
National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
So they've all gone to Omaha except for two of them.
This is a couple, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, not sure what,
(02:46):
but they were taken to Atlanta because one of them
was showing science was showing symptoms and tested positive for
heada virus, and so that person's partner was sent with
them out to Atlanta, So yeah, the majority are they're
in Atlanta being monitored by the staff of volunteer doctors
and nurses. Same situation for the two down in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Do we know at this point? The World Health Organization
last week actually sounded like it's not a big deal.
Then the CDC a couple of days later. Maybe I'm
just translating around, but it sounded like they were making
this out to be more of a threat. Has anybody
come down in conclusion at this point? Is this kind
of a one off thing and nothing to panic or
(03:30):
does it feel like maybe they're trying to build something.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, I don't know if they're trying to build something,
but I think they're being very cautious about this. It
is not coronavirus, it's not COVID nineteen, and this is
a virus that's been around much longer than COVID nineteen.
Was that one popped up in one year. But this
one does have a variant, the ANDES variant of head
a virus, which can be passed from person to person,
but not easily. Doctor Brendan Jenkson of the CDC describes
(03:57):
it this way. You have to have close contact.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Typically we're talking about exposure to specifically to bodily fluids,
and then that could include things like saliva. So if
you're sharing, geting utensils can also mean just being really
really close to that to that person for a fairly
long period of time. So we're calling that right now
six feet for at least the accumultive number of fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And it's not like COVID nineteen you could catch it
by walking into somebody's sneeze, right, this is this is
more difficult to pass.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, because that's where, believe it or not, even after
the pandemic, that's the only federally funded you know, it's
sort of quarantine center in the whole country. So yeah,
they're the experts.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Hmmm, that's a strange place to put I'm not no
crack Nebraska at all, but in the middle of America
like that just seems like a strange place to locate
something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
People in Omaha are going lucky us.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, by the way, the Mayor of Omaha has come
out and said, look, we're not going to have people
out walking around in the street and getting other folks infected.
We want them to stay there, get their assessment, get
their treatment, and clear up symptoms before they go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think, you know, based on everything that everyone is
reading about, and boy, we're in this age right now, Jim,
where clearly there is a ton of information at your fingertips,
albeit sometimes not completely accurate, but if you dig decent,
you know enough, you can see enough common type of
types of threads of information with regard to this where
(05:28):
people have to use some common sense here and not
like freak out. And because you're starting to see that
a little bit on social media, but I think you
had the greatest, you know, your kind of assessment there.
It's like, well, we're on the heels of just a
few years ago something that really kind of terrified the
United States by and large and the world for that matter.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So well absolutely, I mean millions died around the world
from that, and so yeah, people remember that it wasn't
that long ago, and they start thinking, man, could this happen? Fever,
muscle agges, fatigue, headaches, usually one to eight weeks after
the exposure to headavirus.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right, very good, Jim Ryan, ABC News, the very latest
on that, Jim, thank you so much appreciate you see
here
ABC News correspondent. He is out of Dallas, Texas. Jim
Ryan is joining us now, and Jim, you are, well,
you're a few degrees warmer than we are. Just kind
of looked up your weather because I was kind of curious.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But I think by and.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Large, you guys are you're okay with this kind of
cooler weather because you guys get sweltering.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Man when it gets yeah, seventy five right now where
I am, and yeah, I'll take that for the rest
of this month, but obviously it'll be well, yesterday was ninety,
so yeah, it's changeable.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, well that's good. I mean, yeah, this is that's crazy.
Are you guys used to that? Biggest swings in Dallas?
Like you go from ninety to seventy five today?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It depends on what's happening. I mean, a big cold
front moves in or he comes in. Yeah. Can it
can vary twenty twenty five degrees in a day.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't know if Greg Gabbitt's passed it you or not,
but I understand once he hits ninety, the stets and
will become optional.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The stets is okay, perfect, I like it, So get
your stetson out.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jim, I guess if you're going to need.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That, I suppose got it on.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So, yeah, this hantavirus cruise ship, I just nicknamed it that.
Clearly they I'm sure they don't want it called that
or what have you, but it's just the easiest way
for people to kind of kind of familiar or be
familiar with what we're talking about. But yeah, this is
this something that kind of started out like a little
bit of a I don't know, It's like you saw
it and you go, okay, that's a story, and then
(01:21):
it just kept getting bigger and bigger, and then now
you got people going, oh, yeah, here we go again
kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But what is the very latest on.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
This, Jim?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, I think if it hadn't happened five years after coronavirus,
then it might have gone pretty much unnoticed, right, I mean,
but against the backdrop of that, against the pandemic people
starting Wait a minute, cause this thing spread it. Is
it possible that once people are off that ship and
walking around in my neighborhood that I could catch hout
a virus? Probably not, But yeah, the ship, now all
(01:50):
the passengers and crew who are leaving it there will
still be a skeleton crew on there to try to
get the ship back to the Netherlands. But yeah, twenty
three countries. People from twenty three countries were aboard that ship,
the passengers and crew, about one hundred and fifty all together.
They now have been taken off. The Americans have come
back to the US, the Spanish have gone back to Spain.
(02:11):
The people have essentially dispersed two points all over the
world to be repatriated and tested and monitored. And that's
what's happening now with the folks who came back to
the US overnight.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
How many of them fifteen are is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I believe it's eighteen eighty seventeen Americans and one brit
who has dual citizenship that lives here in this country.
So they were taken to believe it or not, the
National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
So they've all gone to Omaha except for two of them.
This is a couple, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, not sure what,
(02:46):
but they were taken to Atlanta because one of them
was showing science was showing symptoms and tested positive for
heada virus, and so that person's partner was sent with
them out to Atlanta, So yeah, the majority are they're
in Atlanta being monitored by the staff of volunteer doctors
and nurses. Same situation for the two down in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Do we know at this point? The World Health Organization
last week actually sounded like it's not a big deal.
Then the CDC a couple of days later. Maybe I'm
just translating around, but it sounded like they were making
this out to be more of a threat. Has anybody
come down in conclusion at this point? Is this kind
of a one off thing and nothing to panic or
(03:30):
does it feel like maybe they're trying to build something.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, I don't know if they're trying to build something,
but I think they're being very cautious about this. It
is not coronavirus, it's not COVID nineteen, and this is
a virus that's been around much longer than COVID nineteen.
Was that one popped up in one year. But this
one does have a variant, the ANDES variant of head
a virus, which can be passed from person to person,
but not easily. Doctor Brendan Jenkson of the CDC describes
(03:57):
it this way. You have to have close contact.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Typically we're talking about exposure to specifically to bodily fluids,
and then that could include things like saliva. So if
you're sharing, geting utensils can also mean just being really
really close to that to that person for a fairly
long period of time. So we're calling that right now
six feet for at least the accumultive number of fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And it's not like COVID nineteen you could catch it
by walking into somebody's sneeze, right, this is this is
more difficult to pass.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, because that's where, believe it or not, even after
the pandemic, that's the only federally funded you know, it's
sort of quarantine center in the whole country. So yeah,
they're the experts.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Hmmm, that's a strange place to put I'm not no
crack Nebraska at all, but in the middle of America
like that just seems like a strange place to locate
something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
People in Omaha are going lucky us.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, by the way, the Mayor of Omaha has come
out and said, look, we're not going to have people
out walking around in the street and getting other folks infected.
We want them to stay there, get their assessment, get
their treatment, and clear up symptoms before they go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think, you know, based on everything that everyone is
reading about, and boy, we're in this age right now, Jim,
where clearly there is a ton of information at your fingertips,
albeit sometimes not completely accurate, but if you dig decent,
you know enough, you can see enough common type of
types of threads of information with regard to this where
(05:28):
people have to use some common sense here and not
like freak out. And because you're starting to see that
a little bit on social media, but I think you
had the greatest, you know, your kind of assessment there.
It's like, well, we're on the heels of just a
few years ago something that really kind of terrified the
United States by and large and the world for that matter.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So well absolutely, I mean millions died around the world
from that, and so yeah, people remember that it wasn't
that long ago, and they start thinking, man, could this happen? Fever,
muscle agges, fatigue, headaches, usually one to eight weeks after
the exposure to headavirus.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right, very good, Jim Ryan, ABC News, the very latest
on that, Jim, thank you so much appreciate you see
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