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Passengers board buses after arriving on an airplane carrying U.S. citizens being evacuated from Wuhan, China, at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA On Jan. 29, 2020, 195 American passengers arrived at Riverside County s March Air Reserve Base on a flight from Wuhan, China, after fleeing the pandemic-stricken country.
At the time, well over 9,800 coronavirus cases were reported in China, with at least 213 COVID-19 deaths.
A year ago, the number of reported cases in California could be counted on just one hand.
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Now a federal investigation finds that the repatriated travelers were met at March ARB by U.S. health officials who had no prevention plan or infection-control training, according to a report Thursday in The Washington Post.