So think of plane loads of infected folks hitting the airports then subways and work for days without knowing. I'm getting worried.
“plane loads”
Ha!
How about being on a cruise ship?
Imagine coming from that area knowing you’re likely with a carrier of the disease and can do nothing?
So think of plane loads of infected folks hitting the airports then subways and work for days without knowing. I’m getting worried.
that means about 5400 in the past 2 weeks were not
“Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext
Of the first 41 cases reported, 32% had to be admitted to the ICU. All had pneumonia. 6 (15%) died.
There was a time when I was thinking of writing a story about a manufactured virus that had a decaying membrane that would be released and it would spread silently, but tigger when the membrane finally dissolved. The result would be that it would be everywhere at once...there would be no patient zero.
Couldnt figure out how to make that work. Maybe someone did.