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Based on reports from different parts of USA, it’s been here since February and spreading and we just didn’t test patients/corpses until it was community spread
by stevenwoo 7y ago
Based on reports from different parts of USA, it’s been here since February and spreading and we just didn’t test patients/corpses until it was community spread. It’s still hard to get tested unless you are sick enough to be admitted to a hospital except in New York. Medical personnel in New Orleans think their outbreak started around Mardi Gras. Reports from airports had people only being screened minimally right up until they shutdown eu ingress. There was widespread (different states) proclamation that life should go on as normal and there are cases on both coasts where one international traveler spread it at a party and then gives it someone who goes to another party and exposes hundreds of people. It’s the same story as what happened in Northern Italy but all over the USA.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-24/coronavirus-trump-national-golf-course-birthday-party https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-24/coronavi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-westport-connecticut-party-zero.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-westport-c...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/26/new-orleans-surviving-katrina-battles-covid-19-coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/26/new-orleans-...
Just based on the news reports alone this seemed inevitable with the president calling it a hoax early on.
- selimthegrim 7y agoI live in New Orleans. All expectations are for the hospitals to hit capacity next week. And since this is majority service industry town no one really has any source of income beyond then either.