First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.

Anyone have a sober perspective of how bad this is likely to get? Is this comparable to a bad but forgetten-by-the-next-year flu strain? To SARS? To the Spanish Flu?

A traveler from China landing on US soil, and detected at the airport (Seattle). This isn't spreading in the US population... yet. (And won't be from this, if containment procedures in Seattle work... and if they didn't transmit it to others on the plane... and maybe a few other ifs.)

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Don't forget the insane amounts of concrete. the country’s production in 2011-2013 surpassed U.S. production for the entire 20th century. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsecuritybeat.org/2018/09...

According to the Washington Post[0], it wasn't caught at the airport, and he isn't a traveller, he is a resident in the Seattle area returning from China.

> Washington state health officials said the man, a resident of Snohomish County, Wash., returned from a trip to the region around Wuhan, where the outbreak began. He arrived at Seattle’s international airport last Wednesday. Shortly afterward, he began feeling ill and reached out to his health-care provider on Sunday. Local, state and federal officials quickly collected samples and sent them to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where his case was confirmed Monday as the coronavirus

Officials say they are trying to track down people he may have had contact with. Sounds like he was on top of things, and so they identified things as quickly as possible, but the disease is not necessarily contained.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/01/21/coronavirus...