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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums15th case of Coronavirus in the US reported
Per WaPo.
● The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the 15th case of coronavirus in the United States. The person had been under quarantine in Texas after arriving on a State Department chartered plane from Wuhan on Feb. 7.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)BREAKING: Texas reports 1st case of coronavirus, 15th in the U.S.
Link to tweet
This BNO site is a great source for all things corona
For a long while, they were only posting stats released by China in the evening, but now...theyre on the case 23/7
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...but what have they been doing in that 24th hour?
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)these isolated cases originating in China aren't cause for alarm.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)...we wont find out for a week or two because of the longish incubation period.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)So it may take even longer for symptoms to show up. Slow replicating virus.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)when those folks who we brought back from China were released after only two weeks of quarantine.
I've probably got enough food to barricade us in the house for a month or two if it comes down to that.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)They have executed the best quarantine I've ever seen. The rest of the world is gaining precious time to get a vaccine and to figure out the best antiviral treatments.
That said, this may throw the world into a recession and there are going to be deaths tangentially related to an inability to get needed drug components from China.
Still, China and their people are taking this hard on the chin.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)I keep seeing comparisons to the flu. China has seen flu and would not quarantine large swaths of the country over flu. Chinas panicked reaction has convinced me that we have a real potential for a global pandemic.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)And if we get a vaccine in time, it will be because China bought the world time.
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)our freedoms make us more vulnerable in situations like this, sadly.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)This is going pandemic. Soon.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)But it will get out. They bought time, possibly enough to get a vaccine.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Countries that have modern medicine have a lower death rate, less than 2%