I suspect it will be as bad in pockets same. Too many people dismissed it and still do as flu. Only now is Trump even taking it seriously and he still has not closed the borders. Plus, CDC has been and appears totally incompetent in testing.
you need to check the timeline my FRiend....
this first became apparent in late november...
trump issued guidelines for the diplomats..
January 27, trump issues travel advisory for china... is called a racist and is challenged in court...
January 30th, travel moritorium for china... called a racist and is challenged in the courts...
trump has been trying to do the right thing since early december, and has been fought and called a racist since then (do not forget that pesky little impeachment thingie)
perhaps a little study time before saying trump is just now taking it seriously.... just sayin
If only people like you were in charge, there wouldn’t even be a Coronavirus.
We should listen to know-it-alls like you.
It has the same mortality rate as the measles, and less than 1/3 the infection rate (r0). Measles killed 140,000 in 2018 (and that is WITH a known inoculation shot existing, it still kills many). Nobody has shut down anything ever for the measles. A grand total of 5 US schools were shut down in 2019 for measles, the longest for 3 days, despite a modern record of 1282 US cases reported in 2019.
Covid-19 is still under 50 US deaths. I will continue to dismiss it until it kills an American under 50, AND claims more than 1000 lives here... which is when Obama called an emergency for H1N1.
At 2.7%, Covid-19 has a MUCH lower mortality rate than the other famous Coronaviruses, MERS (37%) and SARS (11%).
The reality is that the CDC set up a testing protocol that relied on government labs — which is why they had so few test kits available. For example Texas has 10 state labs — when all of them are running full bore, they can process 250 test kits / week total at all 10 sites. Now that the private sector is being engaged, they have developed an automated, high throughput test process that will be able to handle 1,000 test kits / day - at each lab.