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In reply to the discussion: All K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shut down for 2 weeks amid coronavirus outbreak [View all]DeminPennswoods
(16,472 posts)actually came from Europe, not China although it may have been by way of China.
Last night FRONTLINE did a report on cv19 focusing on Washington State. Washington state health officials had been following the outbreak in China and were well-prepared for it. They'd even done a disaster preparedness drill just a couple weeks before identifying patient #1 in the US. In fact that's how they were able to ID the person. They took every precaution including contact tracing involving around 40 people. The interesting thing was the next patient was in a nursing or assisted living home, had not travelled or had contact with any of the people traced to patient #1. So how did it get there after all those precautions?
To me, that's just more evidence that some version was already circulating around before Jan.
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