Coronavirus spread 'under the radar' in US major cities since January, researchers say

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Coronavirus spread 'under the radar' in US major cities since January, researchers say

By Nicole Chavez, Faith Karimi and Eric Levenson, CNN
Updated 0222 GMT (1022 HKT) April 24, 2020

(CNN) — The novel coronavirus silently spread in the United States earlier than previously thought, infecting tens of thousands of people in New York and other major cities, researchers say.

A new model by the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston shows the first infections came from China in early or mid-January, and that the virus went undetected because many people were not presenting symptoms.

"The disease spread under the radar," Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute, said on "CNN Newsroom" on Thursday.

The model suggests that while Americans were still focused on China, about 28,000 people in major cities -- such as New York, San Francisco and Seattle -- were infected by March 1.

The virus circulated in the community of Santa Clara County, California about three weeks before the first known US coronavirus-related death in Washington state, Dr. Sara Cody, the county's public health director, told Anderson Cooper on Thursday.

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[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

[bamagal62]

2. My daughter was very sick in December.

She has an antibody test scheduled in May. It will be interesting to see if she had it. She was in Pittsburgh and many of her friends had the “wicked” flu. (And, she had a flu shot.)

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I presented symptoms in late January.

January 26th.
Kansas City metro area.

[benld74]

4. My wife had a bad case of "flu" in January

She’s usually the last in the house to get stuff. This time she was the 1st. 3 + weeks, sore throat, aches, pains, coughing, coughing fits.
Just when she started feeling a little better. Boom, she’d get worse again. I really felt for her. She worked in the health field for 30+ years.
She knew it was different.
Went to local urgent care. Was told,”This stuff is bad this year, hard to get outta peoples systems. Our teen had a sore throat, stuffy nose and cough. Oldest the same as the teen. Me? Nothing for a change. We ALL had flu shots.
Now my wife thinks she may have gotten it as well. I don’t know. Possible, but she’s retired, not iut much. I work from home.
Who knows?
If we ever get tests out, we both would bet she fid

[niyad]

5. This virus has been active since Nov. How many people traveled from that area to the rest of the

world before the problem was recognized and acknowledged?

[diane in sf]

6. I live in the Bay Area and I think I came down with it Dec. 27th. It showed up in this town in the

North Bay around the holidays. It lasted for 3 weeks and I didn’t feel normal until February. No one Im aware of died with this stuff at the time, tho one friend who smokes ended up in the hospital because he couldn’t breathe very well. I normally don’t catch flus and colds. I’m around sick students all the time. At first I thought I had damaged lungs because of the extreme and continued air pollution we experienced during the Camp fire. I had a bronchial infection last year about 4-6 weeks after the Sonoma/Napa fires, which I figured was lung house cleaning. The symptoms of this recent disease were obviously viral. And I’ve never had a lung infection before where my sinuses were completely clear before and during.