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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NY Times article says the first confirmed case in Seattle was late January—which means it’s safe to assume there were others walking around/traveling with it at that time or even sooner.

That’s long before anyone really thought it was here. And way before testing. Heck, we still aren’t testing.

So why don’t people believe it’s been here since then and has been spreading?

I think all the people presenting with flu symptoms who are testing negative for flu likely have or had corona. I know so many adults and kids who have been ill with flu symptoms but tested negative. [/quote]

Another thread commented it's amazing that with all the big American chinatowns and Chinese American communities and close ties, both family and business, to China, its amazing we haven't had any positive cases pop up in the US chinatowns, either in NYC or Los Angeles. Those are huge communities. Wuhan didn't go into lockdown for a while and the virus is supposed to spread so easily.

I'm fully confident it's been around the US for longer than thought. Which is very encouraging in it's own way. [/quote]

Yes.  Every time I think “there are probably a few thousand untested cases” I also remember “we’re not seeing the rather high percentage of complicated cases in hospitals.  I realize I can’t have it both ways in my mind.  So I’m still not sure whether we will be Italy or S Korea[/quote]

Thus far, close to ninety percent of the people tested in Maryland have been negative, per the info released by Hogan.  Hopkins started tested two days ago or so.[/quote]

LOL. They’ve probably only tested like 5 people.

We are about two weeks behind Italy. Stories about the strain on the healthcare system there didn’t start appearing until a few days ago.

There are things we can control though. We start social distancing NOW. We start closing sht NOW. We don’t wait until those sick people start showing up. What we do NOW determines where we will be in two weeks. [/quote]

Why do you insist on living in a fact free world when information is so easily available?  94  test results complete in MD as of today, 9 people tested positive.  https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/Pages/Novel-coronavirus.aspx[/quote]

Here’s a fact for you: there are 6 million people in Maryland. Telling me that 90% of tests are negative when you’ve tested 94 out of 6 million is absurd. That is meaningless.

Here’s another fact for you - actually several of them.
https://twitter.com/markjhandley/status/1237782971622535169?s=21

Those are the trends. No one is different or special here. You’re 94 tests are irrelevant. [/quote]

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