[Judith Anne]

When it truly becomes transmissible between humans with no birds involved, the number of infected patients will immediately be numbered in the thousands.

And we won't know about it for three weeks.

[Dog Gone]

I'm also fatalistic in that regard. When it does start spreading rapidly between humans there's not a darn thing we can do about it. A vaccine can then start to be developed, but it will be months before any is available.

Pinpointing when and where the h2h transmission began will be an interesting tidbit for future historians, but it's not going to help us at all when the pandemic quickly goes global.