15th case of Coronavirus in the US reported

[Dennis Donovan]

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]

1. In Texas, looks like

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...they’re on the case 23/7

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Agreed

...but what have they been doing in that 24th hour?

[Leghorn21]

4. Dosing up on

!!!!!!!

[Dennis Donovan]

5. 🤣

[Claritie Pixie]

2. Until there are documented cases of person-to-person infection in the US,

these isolated cases originating in China aren't cause for alarm.

[spinbaby]

6. If there was...

...we won’t find out for a week or two because of the longish incubation period.

[Claritie Pixie]

7. Excellent point. WHO thinks the two week quarantine period may not be long enough.

So it may take even longer for symptoms to show up. Slow replicating virus.

[customerserviceguy]

10. That's exactly what I was thinking

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]

8. While China didn't handle the beginning of this well,

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]

9. Huge disruption in China

I keep seeing comparisons to the flu. China has seen flu and would not quarantine large swaths of the country over flu. China’s panicked reaction has convinced me that we have a real potential for a global pandemic.

[tavalon]

12. Yes, we do

And if we get a vaccine in time, it will be because China bought the world time.

[Wounded Bear]

14. Well, that's easier done in an authoritarian country...

our freedoms make us more vulnerable in situations like this, sadly.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. With an Ro 4, there WILL be a transmission

This is going pandemic. Soon.

[tavalon]

13. At least it's not an 4 with a death toll of 10%

But it will get out. They bought time, possibly enough to get a vaccine.

[Drahthaardogs]

15. What is interesting is the deaths

Countries that have modern medicine have a lower death rate, less than 2%