a quick and reliable test for the virus, the world is holding it's breath. I suggest rapid and relentless testing using the Trump family, but the chances of the virus being transmitted from Trumps to human beings is still considered too dangerous at this point.

At least to me.

Now, will we see similar reporting about other recent travelers to China, or to cities where the infection is spreading. Apart from whatever epidemiologists know (and may or may not be reporting publicly), this is the only way for the unwashed masses to try to track what is happening and, more important, what might happen.

So, 700 people in self quarantine. Factor in the number of people they have had contact with, and on and one, and we may begin to see the possibilities in the US. Not panicking, but valid information would be nice. Now. . . who is going to track, and report on, the results of this self-quarantine. And, apart from the mostly isolated cases that have been reported, are there any other large groups, or even individual travelers who have done the same? Where? How many?

How about this as a start? Can journalists obtain information about the number of travelers who have returned from the Wuhan area to the US, whatever the route they traveled, from Feb 3 onward. Is the number in the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands? More? And how does this compare to the number of travelers from that area to Europe and elsewhere in Asia during the same period. Or, for that matter, Latin America? Of course, we're probably at the point of whatever the term is for secondary infections, so maybe the information I'm looking for is unnecessary. Overall, though, at least from the reporting in the US, the oversight, if we can even call it that, is absent or lackadaisical at best.

And speaking of follow up, I can't recall seeing anything more about American troops in South Korea. One infection. And that's it? Sounds like a news lockdown to me.

it will be a hodge podge way of dealing with a pandemic.

are there any other states besides NewYorkers that have citizens that traveled to China???????

Seattle & Portland for instance. And they found a guy in Vancouver BC who tested positive after flying in on a Canadian airline. Not good news for anyone who was on that plane with him. Very high number of Chinese immigrants there

... imagine trying to do physical quarantine for over 7.5k people without creating perfect conditions for virus transmission *within* the quarantine group.

My opinion is based on my understanding of the way novel viruses work, and I am not a doctor.

But: yes, the virus is going to get to the US eventually, and we will probably all be exposed to it. The hope is that the virus will attenuate -- get weaker -- as it spreads between human beings. That is the general trend with novel viruses, in normal settings. Every variant of the "common cold" started this same way, and eventually the worst just became those cruds that are hard to shake -- not causative of viral pneumonia, but likely to cause bacterial secondary pneumonia.

It's that time between now and "eventually" that we have to worry about, and how we handle people exposed to variants that spread in conditions like on the Diamond Princess (people crammed together). Those are the patients/contacts I'm most worried about, that and any positives that show up in the Hubei-province quarantine facilities.

Why?

Two pressures exist on a novel virus. First, to be able to replicate fast in human cells. Second, to not replicate so fast/cause so much damage to their hosts that they can't spread to new human hosts.

In crowded conditions/insufficiently sanitary attempts at quarantine, like the attempts to "shelter in place" on the Diamond Princess but crew were still in contact with people to deliver meals, etc... that was the perfect environment for a strain to pass through multiple human hosts without the pressure to leave the people mobile, meaning the bigger pressure on the virus was to reproduce fast in human cells. There were 3700 people on that ship, 705 infected, 4 dead (so far).

In the US, especially in a metropolitan area, it is quite possible to self-isolate. Grocery delivery is a thing, and unlike the crew of the Diamond Princess delivering meals to 2000 people so getting exposed to many many people who might have the virus, delivery people will just gonna probably see the one on their route (and be capable of less contact, like just leaving the bags on the ground outside and driving off, plus not having to pick back up used trays like the DP crew had to do).

Bean Counters, turned CDC scientist have it under control!

Mexico, Central American countries, South American countries - none! Are these countries not reporting, have no sales rep visitors for foreign trade visiting back and forth, no tourists, unfavorable wind patterns of airborne pathogens, or what? Same for mid/southern African continent - they all have weird live food markets that sell "wild" zoo species of animals too!

RIO DE JANEIRO) — Brazil’s government confirmed on Wednesday that a 61-year-old Brazilian man who traveled to Italy this month has Latin America’s first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus. The Brazilian man spent two weeks in northern Italy’s Lombardy region on a work trip, where he contracted the contagious virus, the health ministry said.

https://time.com/5791025/brazil-latin-america-coronavirus-cases/

what? you don't believe the stable genius?

Reports of outbreaks began late December... was present and affecting folks in China in mid-November; since Feb 3 a long way down the pike.

One after a SE Asia vacation who has a cough (though he said he had it before he went), and one after filming in Iran:

Link to tweet

goes down again.