The timeline here is NOT encouraging.
Patient Zero went to the hospital Friday and was displaying enough symptoms to be prescribed antibiotics. Friday was the 26th. He was, at that point, infectious.
The three day incubation period for people who he physical contact with on Friday ran out on Monday, the day he was checked into the hospital. There is, potentially, a new infection chain that we have to worry about that no one seems to be talking about.
A potential Patient Two went to the hospital either late yesterday or today. Reportedly patient Two is a family member. Oddly enough this is good news for the rest of us since Patient Two could be a member of an identified infection chain.
The real nightmare begins if there is a Patient Three who is NOT a family member of Patient Zero. The possibility of this happening is much higher, in my mind, that it was before I read this article because of the nature of the hospital visit on Friday.
That’s why we’re hoping Case 0 was a moral man with no use for working ladies.