[DoughtyOne]

A funny this happened on the way to documenting Coronavirus information over
the last 48 hours.

14 new nations popped up with 1 case. If you go out to 72 hours you can pick
up about five more.

All of a sudden, it's as if someone is beating the bushes to bump up the numbers
of nations with this virus.

Over a month into this, and these 14-19 nations all found their first case in
a 48 to 72 hour window.

That looks odd to me.

[Grampa Dave]

Again what tests are they using to document Corona Virus?

CDC may be sending their tests this weekend.

Any tests they sent before, had errors in the test packages.

[21twelve]

In the USA the reasons for giving the tests have been expanded. A person would only get a test if they had traveled to China.

Last Tuesday(?) the CDC widened it to patients with severe respiratory distress with no obvious cause - travel was not included. That is why they tested the man in Washington on Thursday, and who has since died. The man had other chronic health issues that complicated treatment.

So it isn't a case of more people have the virus, just more people are being tested for it. I imagine that in the next week there will be a huge spike in the numbers. Washington state just became able to test in-house, rather than sending it to the CDC, so that will also factor into more people getting tested.

[TexasFreeper2009]

my guess is, they didnt have the testing to detect it until recently, and has been spreading worldwide for a while. Probably just seems like a cold to most people.