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Dozens quarantined at hotels amid growing flu outbreak at migrant shelter
Posted 4:42 PM, May 24, 2019, by Christy Simeral and City News Service, Updated at 05:40PM, May 24, 2019
SAN DIEGO -- County health officials Friday announced more than dozen new flu cases at a local immigrant shelter housing asylum seekers flown from Texas to San Diego by federal immigration authorities.
On Thursday, the county had identified 16 people at the shelter who have an "influenza-like illness," according to Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the county's deputy public health officer. By Friday, the county said there were 13 new cases of the illness for a total amount of 29 cases, according to county spokesman Jos? ?lvarez.
County health officials on Thursday began treating those affected. Twenty-four of those migrants were being quarantined at various hotels across the county, ?lvarez said. They are staying in rooms where there is no ventilation, heating or AC connecting with other rooms.
The patients were being housed at a shelter in Bankers Hill operated by the San Diego Rapid Response Network, a coalition of human-rights, service and faith-based organizations such as Jewish Family Service of San Diego. The county Board of Supervisors voted in January to authorize the SDRRN to use the former courthouse as a temporary shelter...
Dozens quarantined at hotels amid growing flu outbreak at migrant shelter
Posted 4:42 PM, May 24, 2019, by Christy Simeral and City News Service, Updated at 05:40PM, May 24, 2019
SAN DIEGO -- County health officials Friday announced more than dozen new flu cases at a local immigrant shelter housing asylum seekers flown from Texas to San Diego by federal immigration authorities.
On Thursday, the county had identified 16 people at the shelter who have an "influenza-like illness," according to Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the county's deputy public health officer. By Friday, the county said there were 13 new cases of the illness for a total amount of 29 cases, according to county spokesman Jos? ?lvarez.
County health officials on Thursday began treating those affected. Twenty-four of those migrants were being quarantined at various hotels across the county, ?lvarez said. They are staying in rooms where there is no ventilation, heating or AC connecting with other rooms.
The patients were being housed at a shelter in Bankers Hill operated by the San Diego Rapid Response Network, a coalition of human-rights, service and faith-based organizations such as Jewish Family Service of San Diego. The county Board of Supervisors voted in January to authorize the SDRRN to use the former courthouse as a temporary shelter...
