Random coronavirus thought before I head home

[matt819]

I was looking at the Johns Hopkins map of infections in the US/Canada.

It kind of makes sense that the bulk of the infections are on the west coast. And large or large-ish areas, e.g., NY, Toronto, and the Boston area (though still much fewer than the west coast).

I was struck by how few cases are in "flyover" country. A few scattered here and there, and not even too many in Chicago or Texas. So people who traveled from China to the west coast of the US don't travel much further east? Or those coming from South Korea or Italy or other outbreak locations don't travel beyond the coasts? Hey, maybe that's the case, but it still struck me as unusual. And only a few in the Atlanta area, home to one of the busiest airports in the world. No spread?

As a said, a random thought.

[lame54]

1. What's going on in Nebraska?

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Corn, Pigs and Husker football

[Ms. Toad]

7. More beans than corn, these days.

Also cattle.

Oh yeah. As relevant to the question above. People quarantined from the cruise ship.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. Thanks haven't been in NE since the late 80s my info was dated.

[Ms. Toad]

12. I was just back there over the new year's holiday

for a family reunion.

Everything seemed much smaller and closer together than it used to - even though nothing had actually moved.

[CanonRay]

4. They flew people from a cruise ship to Omaha

[defacto7]

5. Big quarentine location.

[SoCalNative]

2. Anecdotal

but my friend who is on the sequestered cruise ship off the coast of SF says that a lot of the people on the ship have southern-sounding accents. So always a possibility that those who may be infected or are carriers just haven't made it into the community-at-large in those areas as yet.

[helpisontheway]

11. Have they found out if the sick passengers have Coronavirus or flu? Nt

[SoCalNative]

15. I haven't heard from him yet today

but I know the results were supposed to be back sometime today, so we'll see.

[uppityperson]

6. They haven't been testing. Once tests become more available, #s wiil

increase. Up until now, limited # of tests available combined with 1-2 week turnaround for results and half of the cases being without symptoms = no one really knows how widespread it is.

[louis-t]

8. None here, but only a matter of time.

No one is screening people coming off of planes.

[Squinch]

10. Give it a couple of weeks.

[Mystery sage]

13. At this moment no one knows who's has it.

Only the ones confirmed are reported, Be aware of the ones who aren't.

[abqtommy]

14. I'd feel a lot more confident reading your observations IF I knew that we're all accessing the

correct information... I think it's definite that we're headed for trouble but without the right basic information it's better for me to focus on survivability as a better use of my energy..

[matt819]

16. You're right

We don’t have the confidence we need in the data and any analysis that comes out.