Most of those cases came from China.
The number of people who contracted COVID-19 in this country is what, Four?:
What were they in China on Dec15th. They had just as many people isolated in their hospitals. People did not start dying for two weeks.
You all think we are at a much deeper part of this timeline than we are. This is the first out of the first inning in the US.
“The number of people who contracted COVID-19 in this country is what, Four?:”
That will be four separate clusters before another week is gone.
All were very sick before they showed up for the arduous process of CDC testing and most certainly spread it before they got there.
Seattle, Portland and the CA Bay Area.
Everyone has been through those parts at least once.