White House coronavirus official Dr. Birx says anyone who was in New York City should self-quarantine for 14 days after they left the metro area
From CNN's Betsy KleinThe administration remains “deeply concerned about New York City and the New York metro area,” Dr. Deborah Birx said Tuesday, providing additional information on the hotspot and urging anyone who may have left the area to self-quarantine.
“About 56% of all the cases in the United States are coming out of that metro area and 60% of all the new cases are coming out of the metro New York Area and 31% of the people succumbing to this disease,” Birx said at Tuesday’s press briefing. “It means, because they are still at the 31% mortality compared to the other regions of the country, that we can have a huge impact if we unite together. This means that, as in all places, they have to be following the presidential guidelines … and this will be critical,” she said. Birx sounded an alarm for any New Yorkers who may have left the region for other parts of the country in recent days. “To everyone who has left New York over the last few days, because of the rate of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left New York and I think like Gov. DeSantis has put out today, everybody who was in New York should be self-quarantining for the next 14 days to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread to others. No matter where they have gone whether it’s Florida or North Carolina or out to the far reaches of Long Island,” she said. Birx said they are “starting to see new cases across Long Island: That suggest people have left the city.” She explained that the self-quarantine should be timed based on 14 days after they left the New York area. President Trump wouldn’t say whether he gave New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a heads-up that guidance for New Yorkers to self-quarantine was coming Tuesday. “We’re talking to them about it,” Trump said as he left the briefing room, in response to a question from CNN's Kaitlan Collins.
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