Though more and more unexplained cases have been identified, dozens of people with coronavirus in the United States recently spent time in a country with a larger outbreak.
Several Texans who traveled together to Egypt tested positive for coronavirus this week after returning to the Houston area. The first case in Oklahoma, announced Friday, was linked to a trip to Italy. And in Colorado, a patient who had spent time in Italy apparently contracted the virus after being exposed to a person with the virus on his flight back to the United States.
In Washington State, 19 people have died.
Since the first coronavirus deaths in the United States were reported Feb. 29 in King County, Wash., which includes Seattle, officials there have continued to announce fatal cases of the illness.
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By Sunday, 16 deaths had been tied to the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland, Wash., where dozens of residents, staff members and visitors were sickened. Many of those cases involved elderly people with other health problems, factors that made them especially vulnerable to coronavirus.
Dozens of U.S. patients were on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Forty-three Americans who spent time aboard the ship, where the virus spread among passengers and crew members, were evacuated and treated in the United States.
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Those patients, who were flown out of Japan on two U.S. government flights, have received care at hospitals in California, Nebraska, Texas, Utah and Washington State.
A specialized unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha treated 13 coronavirus patients from the ship. A handful had returned home by Sunday. But others remained hospitalized as tests continued to show the virus in their bodies.
“One of the things, when we talked about what we don’t know yet, is how long does this hang on,” said Shelly Schwedhelm, Nebraska Medicine’s executive director of emergency management and biopreparedness.