[per loin]

I'm unaware of any large outbreaks in either the US or India. In the US, virtually all the cases have been individuals coming in from infected areas, and quarantined or isolated here. The only possible cases of local transmission in India that I'm aware of were among the wedding party in Pune, and there is some doubt as to the specificity of the test being used by the National Institute of Virology in India.

Do you have a source for Ivan T's ethnic figures on Toronto?

[Judith Anne]

I think that when a potential pandemic is poised on the knife edge of breakout, there will be all kinds of conversations among people about who gets sick and who doesn't, whether or not those conversations have any basis in science.

I think that's fear talking...I think people will do anything that reassures them that they and their loved ones are safe.

There is no ethnicity or racial profiling in the common cold, imho, and that is a coronavirus.

[aristeides]

No, I don't have such a source. But I'm puzzled that you are so resistant to even the possibility that the disease might affect different groups differently. Granted, nothing I've mentioned comes close to constituting proof. But I do think it all constitutes mounting evidence.

Remember all the talk when AIDS was getting started about how it was going to affect everybody equally?

[riri]

I'm unaware of any large outbreaks in either the US or India

And, the hardest hit state/area of the US, seems to be the bay area of California. Hugely Asian.

[aristeides]

Neither-nor sent me a link to a story with the latest developments about the doctor in India who was found to have become infected with the SARS virus while in Malaysia. Fifty-four checked for SARS in Manipal. The doctor himself, although infected, never came down with any symptom beyond a mild fever, and is now perfectly healthy. Neither-nor informs me that there's no indication that any of his 54 contacts in India have come down with the disease. The course of the disease in India does look very different from its course in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.