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ClinicalOps
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Joined: Feb 22, 2006
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June 02, 2009 - 01:05 PM |
 
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| Post subject: Short-term H1N1 quarantine... |
Here is the short version of what to expect with a short-term quarantine:
- Person identified with fever within three rows of your own
- Sit on plane for three hours (with sick patient)
- Sit in bus for two hours (sick patient on stretcher on tarmac)
- Taken to small hotel just outside of PVG with ~60 people
- Passport exchanged for room card for individual rooms
- Luggage delivered three hours later
- Stay in room for 10 hours while fed every four hours and temperature taken every four hours
- Look out window at bored police keeping an eye on the hotel
- If, after 10 hours, patient is cleared then you can go; if others get sick, you do another 10 hours (as was my own case)
- 24 hours later returned to PVG
Hope this helps in giving a heads up on what to expect. |
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Barker
Joined: Sep 09, 2008
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June 02, 2009 - 01:20 PM |
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Do you have access to phones/internet? |
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ClinicalOps
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Joined: Feb 22, 2006
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June 02, 2009 - 01:25 PM |
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You get 10 minutes free phone from the hotel for local calls. Then you have to pay. No internet, wireless etc...you are placed in a hotel with a scenic view of the water shipping lanes.
"Ain't no vista, ain't no view." |
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crivens200
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Joined: Nov 05, 2007
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June 02, 2009 - 03:37 PM |
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Man, no internet? I gotta stock up on porn if I go travelling, just in case. |
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kruemel23
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Joined: May 31, 2009
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Location: Shanghai, Pudong
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June 18, 2009 - 06:07 AM |
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I was on a plane coming in from Hong Kong.
The quarantine officers entered the plane to check everybody's temperature. 2 people were identified with fever. One of them sitting 2 seats away from me. He had been to the Philippines were they have a lot of H1N1. He was given a face mask and escorted to health check point.
Everybody else was allowed to leave the plane after that. No quarantine for people within 3 rows of this person.
Not that I had wished to be put into quarantine, but I thought that was strange.
Another incident: We queued up to hand over our health certificates, when a little boy in front of us vomited directly in front of the counter. It took them 10 min to clear up the mess!!! Vomiting is also indicator for H1N1!!!
In general: I like the Chinese approach, but they sort of failed to be consistent. Especially, because the queue at immigration was as long as I have ever seen it - great chance for everybody's viruses to mix before going home  |
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