[It didn’t come on China’s road. It came on airplanes.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Americans#Population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Italy
And yet stateside coronavirus infections remain a fraction of Italy’s, even though the US’s (presumably) Chinese-American Patient Zero arrived in the US on January 19, at around the same time as Italy’s German Patient Zero (of indeterminate ethnicity) showed up in Northern Italy:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-scientists/coronavirus-may-have-reached-italy-from-germany-scientists-say-idUSKBN20Y35B
And that remains the case even in New York City, which has 600,000 ethnic Chinese in its 300 sq miles. That’s double the ethnic Chinese in all of Italy 116,000 sq miles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_in_New_York_City
Both Italy and Iran currently suffering heavily have strong recent ties to China. The leather goods industry near Milan has workers who went home to China over the holidays. Most of Iran’s international commerce is now with China. An Iranian from Qom flew back from China bringing a case to that city where the devote lick the screen around the local saint’s tomb. Now a Qom cemetery has a 100 yard ditch for bodies. Chinese have been in US far longer than Italy and Iran, and families probably celebrate the New Year in US. Saw that Italy is not identifying the dead as Chinese to prevent prejudice. Below are some interesting links.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2020/03/16/coronavirus-map-how-to-track-coronavirus-spread-across-the-globe/#3fad48faf980 [An excellent series of maps showing distribution and figures on cases.
I spoke with my son in Puerto Rico this evening after I read that the govt. closed the beach. I asked him about the big pharmaceuticals manufacture business that used to be there. He says while some drugs are still made there, a complex about 5 miles square in the southern part of the island has been abandoned for some years now. We should not be depending on China for 80% of our medicines.
https://apnews.com/2d57b506106f131418c7c846d20babc1 [ Serious restrictions and fines, and only 5 sick and no dead.
I also spoke with my military son about Vitamin C experiments China is doing to test the value of high dose C for severely ill Covid 19 victims. He said there were actually U-tube videos about this which have now been removed by Google mgt. Large shipments of C were made to Wuhan, and China has said they are not going to ship more to US, they need it themselves.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=228745