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Thanks for that info Phil !!

The numbers out of China and Iran are meaningless. They are made up.
If you exclude China and Iran, things don't look too good:

Excluding China and Iran:
Confirmed: 15,093 (2,478 in the last 24 hours)
Deaths: 244 (57 in the last 24 hours)
Recoveries: 995
Deaths/(Deaths+Recoveries): 19.7%

I have to disagree, right now its not a huge deal in the US. The flu should be more worrysome to you than the Conv19.

By the numbers per the CDC, these are the official US numbers so far as of yesterday 3/5/2020

200 cases confirmed in the U.S, 50 of the cases are in individuals evacuated from either Wuhan, China or the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

13 in Washington state and 1 in California — have died.

The cruise ship test data they have so far is interesting. With about 50% of the tested being infected that's somewhat telling. I'm a little surprised that half were able to avoid the infection.

2 have died in Florida as of now. Out of 11 infected.

As of today, March 7th, 2020
US Statistics look like this:
Confirmed: 340
Deaths: 17
Recoveries: 8
Recovery Rate: Recoveries/(Deaths+Recoveries): 32%

Phil, it looks like SD has been hit now with COVID-19 including on death. They haven't determined yet that COVID-19 was the cause of death but the person that died tested positive for COVID-19.

yep
4. The male who we were told was in very poor health, the virus is what finished him off unofficially of course.

All the people who have tested positive had traveled that was the connection to the virus.

I do have a concern for older folks and people with risk of respiratory issues but other than that......life as normal

So it appears that the sh*t has hit the fan.:eek:

World wide bans are going into effect by the end of the week.
Travel- inconus from: Europe (not UK), Asia, Mid East and Africa. Minimum 14 to 30 days. Fed travel in conus restricted; mission critical (CO approval required) OCONUS same as inconus but program directorate approval.
schools are closing across the state, no social gathering larger than 250 people. No sporting events.

As an interesting side note, the UW communicable disease research group in Seattle was doing a study of Flu transmission patterns in the NW starting back around Christmas. When this Corona crap started up they started looking at their sample pool and tested a bunch of the their samples against the COVID -19, guess what they found... as many as 30% aren't the flu. That's right it's corona. The state and fed's just slapped an injunction on the release of their data, (showing that corona was here as much as 2 months ago.) They're up to something, just don't know what yet.:(

I will add that you should use LIQUID soap and paper towels to help prevent the spread of anything including the virus