My wife has a friend in California who works in medical. She points out that:
COVID-19 throws flu-like symptoms
It’s still flu season
Our lab tests for the flu are pretty poor
Therefore: lots of cases of “you obviously have the flu, lets just treat it like it’s flu and move on” in the last little while could plausibly have been COVID-19 and we would have had no good way to know
It’s entirely reasonable to expect that it’s out there in the community, at least on the west coast, and we just haven’t found out yet. Any place close to a travel hub is suspect now. We should assume that most of us have at least had the opportunity to be exposed by now.
Above all, keep you hands washed (and lotioned because cracked and bleeding knuckles from lots of washing could be an infection vector, if not for COVID-19 then for other stuff) and keep good cough/sneeze hygiene!
My wife has a friend in California who works in medical. She points out that:
COVID-19 throws flu-like symptoms
It’s still flu season
Our lab tests for the flu are pretty poor
Therefore: lots of cases of “you obviously have the flu, lets just treat it like it’s flu and move on” in the last little while could plausibly have been COVID-19 and we would have had no good way to know
It’s entirely reasonable to expect that it’s out there in the community, at least on the west coast, and we just haven’t found out yet. Any place close to a travel hub is suspect now. We should assume that most of us have at least had the opportunity to be exposed by now.
Above all, keep you hands washed (and lotioned because cracked and bleeding knuckles from lots of washing could be an infection vector, if not for COVID-19 then for other stuff) and keep good cough/sneeze hygiene!