@doschicos they cancelled the st Raphael (Pawtucket school where the day care is as well) vs. Barrington high school girls playoff game tomorrow. The coach from st. Rays got sick in Italy. He’s ok but the host gym lasalle academy wouldn’t allow the team in the gym. The st rays team can’t host in their gym so they forfeited. The parents are all relieved. The coach was walking around the state for a week before he got symptoms so we expect many more cases. My mom is 84 and my wife has immunity suppression so we are being very careful to be sure.
https://www.khon2.com/coronavirus-2/gov-ige-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-in-hawaii/
**Hawaii resident, passenger aboard Grand Princess confirmed as first coronavirus case in Hawaii
HONOLULU (KHON) — In a news conference, Governor David Ige and Department of Health officials confirmed Hawaii’s first case of COVID-19.
The person infected is a Hawaii resident who was a passenger aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship that docked on Oahu in late February.
The resident returned home after the cruise, did not feel well after a few days and went to see their doctor. The person was then tested and found to be positive for coronavirus.
It would be surprising that there would be zero cases in HI. Alaska - maybe. Not going to stop me from traveling (unless all air traffic does out or I get ill).
Wow, simulation based on viral sequence comparison of known cases in Washington State estimates active infections at more than 600 on March 5 and more than 1000 by March 10, just from the Washington cluster.
Reference is the Twitter feed of Dr. Trevor Bedford @trvrb
@doschicos - I don’t know if my mother-in-law will be convinced or not?? She currently has plans to fly to L.A. in mid-May. There is no case (yet) in her home state. She is 81 and in good health, but her age alone makes me nervous.
But that article helps me understand where the age of “60” came from - those two physicians quoted in that article. That age is not (yet) specifically listed on the CDC website. Which was why I couldn’t find it there. Thank you for the link, though!
2 new cases bring the count in TX to 8
Two more cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Fort Bend County, health officials said.
The patients, two women in their 60s, were exposed to the virus as part of a trip to Egypt, the same trip that all of the other area people diagnosed with the pneumonia-like disease made in February. The women are self-quarantined at home, one with mild symptoms and the other no longer symptomatic.
With the trip over 2 months off, so much could change by then. The problem might take care of itself - for better or worse - but I understand your concerns.
Let’s look at South Korea. They’ve been doing an amazing amount of testing, so we can expect they have found a lot of asymptomatic infected people.
As of today, they have 6767 infected people, of which 483 have died. That’s a case fatality rate of 0.7%, much much much higher than flu’s 0.1%. But wait, it gets worse. The case fatality rate is 0.7% if not one single one of the people who are still alive dies. That happy result is not going to happen. The actual fatality rate of the identified cases will probably be more like 1.0% or more.
Do not say this is like flu. It is not like flu. It is much more lethal than flu. We need to stop the spread, or our health system will be swamped.
FBI employee near San Francisco tests positive for coronavirus
From CNN
An FBI employee out of the San Francisco field division is among those to test positive for the novel coronavirus, an FBI official confirmed Friday.
The infected person is based out of a smaller satellite office and not the main offices in San Francisco. Employees of the satellite office were sent home and the FBI is taking all necessary steps to prevent further spread of the virus, the official said.
It’s not clear how the employee contracted the virus. The FBI has notified local health officials and is tracking people who had contact with the employee.
The age cutoff of age 60 comes from the data from China. There is a sharp uptick in lethality as the patient ages.
Age 50-59, 1.3% die
Age 60-69, 3.6% die
Age 70-79, 8.0% die
Age 80+, 14.8% die
The MD residents were on a Nile River cruise in Egypt and returned on 2/20. Much more information has now been released.
Perhaps time to install solar and a big battery to provide electrical power to run the well pump (and other things) if you are concerned about electrical outages (for any reason).

I have a family member deployed for screening incoming passengers at one of the U.S. airports. Hoping the swift response is effective.
Hi @nichols51 how are you and your family member holding up?
Worker at downtown Seattle Starbucks store diagnosed with coronavirus
An employee at a downtown Seattle Starbucks has tested positive for novel coronavirus, according to a memo released by the company Friday evening.
Starbucks said the worker is now isolated at home. The store where the patient worked is now closed, and the company said it was subjected to a deep cleaning overnight.
The local health department gave the store the go-ahead to return to business, according to the company, but Starbucks has not announced when the location will reopen.
more on the 3 MD cases and a connection to why schools were closed in Bucks Co Pa today.
Maryland’s 3 coronavirus cases are linked to an Egyptian river cruise
"Three Maryland patients contracted the coronavirus on a Nile River cruise in Egypt, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced in a news conference.
Hogan said these cases also appear to be linked to six confirmed coronavirus cases in Texas who were also on a Nile River cruise.
Two of the Maryland patients had public interaction. Hogan said that one individual, after returning from the cruise on February 20, attended an event in the Philadelphia area where they were in contact with a group of children. As a result, the Central Bucks Co. School District in the Philadelphia suburbs made the decision to close five local schools today.
Another patient attended a public event on February 29 at the Village at Rockville, a retirement community where they were in contact with approximately 70 to 100 individuals including outside visitors, as well as residents and staff, according to Hogan" (CNN)
Over the course of time it may well seem nearer to the flu than the rates seen and nothing like mers and the most scary ie Ebola. The flu is incredibly serious as a global health issue. 15000 Americans die of the flu each year alone. It is important to be vaccinated.
1 percent is bad of course. Yet over time it may well spread across the hundreds of millions like the flu and have much lower mortality statistics. I hope it’s stopped short of that and treatments come quickly. No one knows. This is new and even your numbers are discounting potentially hundreds or thousands of cases not reported.
And of course prevention and containment are most important. Who isn’t saying that, everyone is on board with that and fast tracking clinical trials for vaccines and other treatments. Of course it’s of paramount importance.
Just keeping a perspective is all I suggest. And to keep calm and avoid panic.

EGYPT - 12 new coronavirus cases on Nile cruise ship. Total official case now 15.
"Egypt has detected 12 new coronavirus cases on “a Nile cruise ship coming from Aswan to Luxor,” according to a joint statement by the health ministry and the World Health Organization, WHOHealth ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said the detection came after information from the WHO that a Taiwanese-American tourist, who was on board the cruise, had tested positive after returning home.
The 12 cases – all Egyptian workers on the ship – tested positive after a “test was carried out following the conclusion of the 14-day incubation period.”
All new cases have been referred to an isolation hospital, and others believed to be in contact with them placed in quarantine for 14 days, to follow up on their health conditions."
I mentioned it before - Egypt has to be undertesting/underreporting.
I’m betting the MD folks may be related to this situation I posted about this morning.

Thank you everyone for all the information here. Today was my lucky day I finally found a bottle of antibacterial soap.
Antibacterial stuff in soap won’t help against a virus (but it may help select environmental bacteria for resistance to the antibacterial stuff).

University of Nebraska medical director: The trial for a treatment drug “shows great promise”
Dr. Mark Rupp, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
UNMC is currently running a clinical trial of an experimental coronavirus treatment, and have a second participant enrolled in the trial. The trial is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“We’re very pleased with the fact that we brought this trial on extremely quickly along with our colleagues at the NIH,” said Rupp.
“It shows great promise. This was a drug that was developed and tested initially against Ebola virus. It was found to not be very effective against Ebola but did seem to work against some of these coronaviruses like SARS and MERS. So it really does seem to show some promise now with the treatment of Covid-19. So we’re very hopeful, but it’s way too early to say anything.”
Think that would be the remdesivir trial.
The Gilead anti-viral that the Chinese made a patent application for, specifically for the “treatment of coronavirus” or whatever it was being called at the time.
That they signaled a Chinese company called BrightGene had made enough of it for clinical trials wasn’t really surprising, that Gilead said they’d supply all they needed for trials wasn’t either.
That the US intended to conduct trials, too, was a surprise, a pleasant one.
The Chinese trials were supposed to be done by sometime in April.
Don’t remember if I saw this linked here, or not. It’s the first Washington state case write-up: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191