Here in Washington state we had our first Wuhan virus patient January 20. That one was given a non-FDA approved ebola vaccine which may have been the Gilead vaccine. He survived and went home.
Then we had a 50-year-old person on chemo therapy who went to South Korea, came home with no immune system and passed away.
We then had a Life Care petri dish of infection in mid to late February where people with existing conditions were infected and passed away. There were 20 or so of those patients.
Since then Washington state which is now eight or nine weeks into it is having decreasing deaths. There is a lot of testing, about 1,000 per day with 100 per day diagnosed as positive.
The positive rate is flat at 100 and the deaths are diminishing. I think that Washington state being the first and flattening out is likely what will happen in other states. The other coastal states of California and New York who were early with it will likely flatten out.
The Seattle Panic has moved to Spokane where the Spokanonians (Spokaners? Spokanites?) have now moved over the state line to clean out the Costco in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The locust plague moves eastward.
Hopefully the measures taken by all, will keep it from spreading; “ flatten that curve”!
Prayers UP!!
Your post is pretty good evidence that the virus was not endemic within the population at large out there. Quarantining works, and while nursing homes are as you say “petri dishes”, the inhabitants tend not to go places, and for good or ill even family visits are limited.
NY, on the other hand, has released it into the wild in a big way.