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Clarinet_King (son of NerdDad and CDBear) is one of those Air Force recruits who was laid low by this monster and the numbers reported here are incredulously low.

According to the docs who treated him when he got to Vandenburg AFB in CA, the number of recruits infected was closer to 1500. He was quarantined for nearly 2 weeks with this thing before he was allowed to be exposed to any other person. It set him back in his academic training by more than a month and his physical training suffered for nearly 2 months. Thankfully, he had completed basic before it really took hold. The consequences of an illness like that during basic could have really been much worse.

Because his girlfriend came to his basic training graduation, the virus also went home to Michigan with her. This thing is being badly under reported by the CDC and that is not a good thing.

I agree with what you are saying. I asked my wife about the CDC numbers and she was not surprised. She was not exaggerating when she said the deaths are probably two orders low as is the diagnosis. The diagnosis and reporting for CDC purposes are mythological.

What I am surprised about is how serious this virus is and how little attention it has been getting. I believe this is definitely a case for home quarantine in all cases. I could not imagine how bad this would be if it was passed in a middle or high school environment. The effects are supposedly much more severe amongst the young.