Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
Months before Florida leaders had any clue, coronavirus was creeping through the state
It was March 1 when Florida announced its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a 29-year-old Hillsborough County woman who had traveled to Italy and a 63-year-old Manatee County man. But buried in data recently published by the Florida health department is an intriguing revelation: The spread of COVID-19 in Florida likely began in January, if not earlier.
State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40% had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled, meaning it was "community spread" at this point.
At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January.
So, once again, for those in the back.........The virus was already here, and there was literally nothing we could have done to "stop the spread" (Except for having "honest communists" - which we all know is an oxymoron).
Months before Florida leaders had any clue, coronavirus was creeping through the state
It was March 1 when Florida announced its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a 29-year-old Hillsborough County woman who had traveled to Italy and a 63-year-old Manatee County man. But buried in data recently published by the Florida health department is an intriguing revelation: The spread of COVID-19 in Florida likely began in January, if not earlier.
State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40% had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled, meaning it was "community spread" at this point.
At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January.
So, once again, for those in the back.........The virus was already here, and there was literally nothing we could have done to "stop the spread" (Except for having "honest communists" - which we all know is an oxymoron).
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