It’s certainly not going under the radar in Italy and the only reported deaths today were very elderly. 4 77+ years olds. And that’s with hundreds of reported cases.
They are testing in Italy. I don’t think those nearly 900 confirmed cases just caught it yesterday. It’s had time to spread and for severe cases to develop. But they weren’t reporting deaths until a week ago. Who knows how many actually went under the radar there until they had a surge and started testing. IIRC Italy did not shut down travel from China as early as we did, so it is possible they had a larger influx of cases to begin with, thus the more cases to deal with and the more deaths sooner.
It is entirely possible that even if those two cases in CA and the handful of other new cases popping up have no connection to China, they do have a connection to Mexico (note the careful wording of the CA officials). That would have delayed the transmission by a couple of weeks. But maybe we contained the virus coming from China (only to be screwed by the Dems’ open borders agenda).
With lower smoking rates and lower (vastly) levels of pollution we should have better results than Italy, S. Korea and especially Iran and China.
However, all is speculative until widespread testing occurs.