Live updates: Second coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in California, confirming virus is spreading in the state

Washington Post ^ | Feb 28, 2020

[11th_VA]

Thanks - I’d forgotten that

[Jim Noble]

The most likely explanation for two is that they are connected by an invisible web of undiagnosed cases.

YMMV.

[EnquiringMind]

Thank you, semimojo.

[semimojo]

What.....does that even mean?

I think they're saying it's spreading in populations that don't have a direct connection between them.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

You know people can have this virus and NEVER have symptoms, just be carriers!!

[Redcitizen]

😷👍👍!!

[11th_VA]

From your source: The 1918 flu pandemic, which lasted nearly two years, killed more than 500,000 Americans, historians estimate

- with no vaccine, I think we could hit that number again

[AndyJackson]

If you had enough test kits you could test everyone. But what you do about the 6 Million false positives you would get is a problem. That is why you focus on people who have actual symptoms consistent with the disease. Then you have to worry about false negatives.

Unless you have very reliable tests, testing is almost worthless.

[bgill]

Ya know... This might get Hollyweird to step up to demanding tests being done in the US and getting borders closed.

Naw, that’s crazy thinking.

[AndyJackson]

How do you know how many have it without testing?

If you test the whole country you will find 6-30 M who will test positive without having it when less than 100 have it. You won't be any smarter about what is going on.

[Sacajaweau]

Two.....and this is news because?? They’re nuts

[Jim Noble]

“You know people can have this virus and NEVER have symptoms, just be carriers!!”

Uh, yes, I do.

[Captain Peter Blood]

None of these are of unknown origin. It will take some shoe leather but it can be traced and tracked down.

[bgill]

It is closing in on San Francisco.

[Robert DeLong]

We are 102 years past 1918, so that likelihood is extremely remote. we didn't even have a CDC back then. That wouldn't be born for another 30 years, 1948.

It killed 50 million people worldwide, or about a third of the world's population. There were no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, anywhere in the world. Control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly.

So, no your assertion is totally unfounded.

[Robert DeLong]

BTW, the total American casualty count was about 675,000 in the U.S.

[calenel]

Once again I’m gonna say: if you shake a haystack and a needle falls out, odds are that haystack is rife with needles.

Once they actually start testing we’ll see how many needles they find.

[cgbg]

If you don’t test, there is no panic.

Win, win! ;-)

[calenel]

Probably an illegal from Mexico.

The CA libs would rather put all Americans in jeopardy than admit there is a risk from the open border.