While there has been no local transmission of the virus, declaration can help provide more resources for quarantine operations.
More Coverage“To be clear, today’s action does not signify any increase in risk to the residents of San Diego County,” Fletcher said.
It’s not the first time that the county has declared a local health emergency to help it process an infectious disease threat. On Sept. 1, 2017, the county boardduring a local hepatitis A outbreak that killed 20 and sickened nearly 600. In that case, the county used additional authority to order the City of San Diego to begin an aggressive street-cleaning effort and direct and fund a massive hepatitis A vaccination effort which saw the outbreak recede within just a few months.
Though the hepatitis outbreak and the current coronavirus situation have an emergency declaration in common, they’re far from the same. Hepatitis A is vaccine preventable but was spreading throughout the community, bridging from the homeless to intravenous drug users and striking some outside those communities along the way. By comparison, there is no evidence that a single case of novel coronavirus has spread from one person to another in the region.
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