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Thank you for pinging us here. My wife and I have both volunteered and been paid to do work at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, the first place that this virus hit a vulnerable group of people in the US. We have half a million Chinese people living in Eastern King County, many of them visit their home land frequently. A high percentage of the 3 million Chinese people who visited the US last year made Seattle area one of their first stops, often to visit relatives.

Something was already up here in December and January. Epidemiologists in the area now believe that the coronavirus was being passed around here before it got to the Life Care Center. It seems very likely that many people have already had it and recovered. I do not know about our family. Many of us have been hacking around for what seems like months, but that is not actually uncommon this time of the year.

The number of deaths here appears to be declining and the intensive care units are no longer busier than normal. My friends on the fire department are exhausted from responding to young people with no symptoms who want to be tested and the emergency rooms have been full of people who think that they might have been exposed. But even that is starting to taper off. It would appear that this thing is tapering off much quicker than was predicted.

I believe this is because this highly contagious virus has almost run its course in this area and has almost nothing to do with the stay at home order. I am no longer worrying about the safety of our parents who are in their 80s. I will just be glad when it will be possible to buy toilet paper, paper towels, flour, sugar and rice again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-washington-state-leveling-off/2020/03/26/682790e6-6f6b-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html