Chinese New Year is the world’s largest human migration, as Chinese from abroad return home to be with families.
That’s why it has spread like it has.
Chinese New Year was from 1/25/20 through 1/30/20. The first reported death in Italy was 2/21/20. I updated my chart showing side by side Italy and US deaths from first day adding on the increase from the day before.
Italy/USA reported deaths days 1-16
1/1
2/6 +1/+5
3/9 +1/+3
7/11 +4/+3
11/12 +4/+1
12/15 +1/+3
17/19 +5/+4
21/22 +4/+3
29/26 +8/+4
41/30 +12/+4
52/38 +11/+8
79/41 +27/+3
107/49 +28/+8
148/57 +41/+8
197/68 +49/+11
233/73 +36/5
Tomorrow will be very telling because Italy jumped to 133 deaths on day 17.