Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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There’s a lot of focus in our news on that cult, but apparently S Korea also has a lot of cases because it’s testing a lot of people.

Maybe US numbers are low not because they’re actually low, but instead because we’ve tested so few people.

Heather Cox Richardson

March 1, 2020 (Sunday) Today saw America’s second COVID-19 death, as well as initial cases in Rhode Island, Florida, and New York. Like the first US COVID-19 death, the second was near Seattle, and testing revealed that the two victims did not know each other and could not have contracted the virus in the same place. This makes experts worry that this coronavirus has been spreading undetected in the Seattle area for six weeks while the government resisted the idea that we needed more widespread…