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If you push the first death to Feb 6, then they were probably infected mid-January, and without any known links to China, it seems much more likely than not tha
by roywiggins 6y ago
If you push the first death to Feb 6, then they were probably infected mid-January, and without any known links to China, it seems much more likely than not that there were a cases that percolated around California in December-January before it caused that death:
> “What it means is we had coronavirus circulating in the community much earlier than we had documented and much earlier than we had thought,” said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s public health officer. “Those deaths probably represent many, many more infections. And so there had to be chains of transmission that go back much earlier.”
- gojomo 6y agoWe're agreed on what's probable, but I'd love to find reliably-reported evidentiary confirmation, especially about magnitude of pre-February-2020 or even 2019 US circulation!