U.S. Marines assemble tents at a medical isolation and observation center (MIOC) being set up near the 13 Area on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 15, 2020. The site will serve as a quarantine area for any service members showing coronavirus symptoms or who test positive for the virus. The site is scheduled to open later this week. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Stephen Beard)
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So right here, we’re setting up the 13 Area Trailer Village as a potential quarantine spot for personnel that are deemed restricted movements or person under observation. That will all be determined by medical personnel, though, and will provide additional training to us so that we can properly care for new Marines. So there are roughly nine trailers available, each holding 16 rooms, capability for two per room, and they have their own head. So we’re working pretty heavily with battalion staff, MCI-West personnel and Navy Medicine to make sure we have it right. Quarantined personnel, depending on guidance from Navy Medicine, MCI-West, DoD, could be up here for 72 hours, or 14 days. It all just depends. I think it’s important to know that leadership is looking at this very seriously and doing the best they can to fully understand this danger and hazards and mitigate the situation to keep us as all as a Marine Corps, Navy, DoD family, and civilian population safe.