The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff
Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.6:00 AM ET
On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Bay with two steamships and two sailing vessels under his command. He landed a squadron of heavily armed sailors and marines;He delivered a letter from President Millard Fillmore demanding that the Japanese open up their ports to American trade. As they left, Perry’s fleets fired their guns into the ether. In the port, people were terrified: “It sounded like distant thunder,” a contemporary diarist wrote at the time, “and the mountains echoed back the noise of the shots. This was so formidable that the people in Edo [modern Tokyo] were fearful.”
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U.S. Coronavirus Cases
More information on the first 20 domestic cases that do not include repatriated cases and do not include Diamond Princess cruise ship evacuee cases is presented in the table below:
| State | Cases | Sex | Age | Date | Case # | Location | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 1 | Feb. 29 | 17th | Washington C. | |||
| Washington | 2 | Feb. 29 | 18,19th | ||||
| 1 | M | 30s | Jan. 21 | 1st | Snohomish | [7] | |
| Illinois | 1 | Mar. 1 | 20th | ||||
| 1 | M | 60s | Jan. 30 | 6th | Chicago | [12] | |
| 1 | F | 60s | Jan. 24 | 2nd | Chicago | [8] | |
| California | 2 | unkn. | unkn. | Jan. 26 | 3rd,4th | Orange C., L.A. | [9] |
| 1 | M | adult | Jan. 31 | 7th | Santa Clara C. | [17][18] | |
| 1 | F | unkn. | Feb. 2 | 9th | Santa Clara C. | ||
| 1 | M | 57 | Feb. 2 | 10th | San Benito C. | ||
| 1 | F | 57 | Feb. 2 | 11th | San Benito C. | ||
| 1 | 65 | Feb. 28 | 16th | Santa Clara C. | |||
| 1 | Feb. 21 | 13th | Humboldt C. | ||||
| 1 | Feb. 21 | 14th | Sacramento C. | ||||
| 1 | Feb. 26 | 15th | [Northern California] | ||||
| Massachusetts | 1 | M | 20s | Feb. 1 | 8th | Boston | [16] |
| Arizona | 1 | unkn. | student | Jan. 26 | 5th | Maricopa County | |
| Wisconsin | 1 | Feb. 5 | 12th | Madison |
Total Cases of Coronavirus in the United States
Wuhan Coronavirus Cases and DeathsCumulative confirmed cases(cunulative count from Jan. 21, 2020)
● Cases: 5
Patients Under Investigation (PUI) in the United States
PLEASE NOTE: CDC is no longer publishing Patients Under Investigation reports.
Below we provide the historical reports that we were able to gather:
As of Feb. 10:
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 12 |
| Negative | 318 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 68 |
| TOTAL | 398 |
As of Feb. 7:
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 12 |
| Negative | 225 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 100 |
| TOTAL | 337 |
As of Feb. 5:
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 11 |
| Negative | 206 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 76 |
| TOTAL | 293 |
As of Feb. 3:
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 11 |
| Negative | 167 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 82 |
| TOTAL | 260 |
As of 15 MARCH 2020:
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 6 |
| Negative | 114 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 121 |
| TOTAL | 241 |
| Number of U.S. States with PUI | 36 |
| Positive | 5 |
| Negative | 68 |
| Pending (specimens awaiting testing) | 92 |
| TOTAL | 165 |
Source: CDC – 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the U.S.
Events
- HHS has declared Coronavirus a Public Health Emergency in the US
As of Jan. 31, the Wuhan coronavirus is officially a public health emergency in the United States, Alex Azar, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced at a White House press briefing. - On Jan. 31, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a federal quarantine for 14 days affecting the 195 American evacuees from Wuhan, China. Starting Sunday, Feb. 2, U.S. citizens, permanent residents and immediate family who have visited China’s Hubei province will undergo a mandatory 14 days quarantine and, if they have visited other parts of China, they will be screened at airports and asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.
- President Donald Trump signed an order on Jan. 31 for the U.S. to deny entry to foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the past two weeks, aside from the immediate family of U.S. citizens.
- On Jan. 30, the CDC had confirmed the first case of person to person transmission in the U.S.: the husband of the Chicago, Illinois case who had returned from Wuhan, China on Jan. 13 and who tested positive for the virus on Jan. 24).
- CDC stated on Jan. 30 that “It is likely there will be more cases of 2019-nCoV reported in the U.S. in the coming days and weeks, including more person-to-person spread.”
- The virus has been confirmed in 5 states.
- 31, no coronavirus case has been reported in New York City, and city health officials vehemently denied the rumor.[13]. On Feb.
- Most US patients had recently visited Wuhan.
- All of the first five U.S. cases have been described as mild.
- A study on the first US case of novel coronavirus details mild symptoms followed by pneumonia
U.S. Airlines suspending ALL flights between the U.S. and China
On Friday, January 31, Delta, American and United announced they will temporarily suspend all of their mainland China flights in response to the coronavirus outbreak.[14]
- UNITED AIRLINES
on Jan. 28 had announced it would cut 24 flights between the U.S. and China for the first week of February. - AMERICAN AIRLINES
on Jan. 29 had announced it would suspend flights from Los Angeles to Shanghai and Beijing from Feb. 9 through March 27, 2020. - had not adjusted its schedule of direct flights from the U.S. to China.
The White House was considering issuing a ban on flights between the United States and China, as of late Jan. 28[11].
Travel Alert: Do Not Travel to China
- The U.S. State Department on January 30 issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel to China Alert (the highest level of alert).
- The CDC on Jan. 28 issued a Level 3 Warning, recommending that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China [5].
Screening incoming passengers at 20 airports in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that 15 additional U.S. airports (bringing the total to 20) would begin screening incoming travelers from China.
Below is the complete list of airports where screening for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is in place:
- Los Angeles International (LAX)
- San Francisco International (SFO)
- Chicago O’Hare
- New York JFK
- Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International
- Houston George Bush Intercontinental
- Dallas-Fort Worth International
- San Diego International
- Seattle-Tacoma International
- Honolulu International
- Anchorage Ted Stevens International
- Minneapolis-St. Paul International
- Detroit Metropolitan
- Miami International
- Washington Dulles International
- Philadelphia International
- Newark Liberty International
- Boston Logan International
- El Paso International
- Puerto Rico’s San Juan Airport
Useful info
- CDC – 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Summary
Novel Coronavirus Worldometer Sections:
- Coronavirus Update
- Case statistics and graphs
- Death statistics and graphs
- Mortality Rate
- Transmission Rate
- Incubation Period
- Age, Sex, Existing Condition
- Symptoms
- Countries with cases: basic list – detailed list
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