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Jan 15: The first known case of the novel coronavirus arrives in the U.S., in Washington State<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Jan 16: Researchers in Germany develop a new test for detecting the novel coronavirus<\/a><\/span>. The WHO publishes it. Japan announces its first case. Wuhan officials continue to say that they have had no new cases in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Jan 17: The U.S. CDC sends 100 people to three American airports<\/a><\/span> to screen people coming in from Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n

Jan 18: Epidemiologists from Beijing, China, arrive in Wuhan and report 17 more cases in Wuhan, with three in critical condition. The Wuhan City government holds its annual banquet<\/a><\/span>. US Health and Human Services head, Alex Azar warns Trump about the virus<\/a><\/span>. Trump replies by asking when flavored vaping products will return to the market.<\/p>\n

Jan 19: China confirms cases outside of Wuhan. <\/a><\/span>China confirms that the virus is human to human transmittable<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Jan 20: South Korea reports its first case. The U.S. confirms its first case. The U.S. CDC releases a testing kit.<\/p>\n

Jan 21: The Chinese Communist Party tells all local governments that there should be no covering up of cases<\/a><\/span>. The WHO releases its first situation report<\/a><\/span>. Taiwan confirms its first case<\/p>\n

Jan 22: WHO reports that 314 cases have been detected globally<\/a><\/span>. Chinese officials announce a quarantine of Wuhan<\/a><\/span>, with no traffic allowed in or out after 10 AM on Jan 23. At this point, an estimated 5 million people have already travelled out of the city. Trump declares<\/a><\/span> at an economic forum in Geneva, “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” The WHO meets in Geneva<\/a> <\/span>to decide whether or not this is an international health emergency.*<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said that sorrow looks down, worry looks around, and faith looks up. People who look up bang their shins on coffee tables and fall off cliffs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, \u201clooking around\u201d means watching what is happening with that distant virus in China. The World Health Organization reports that it (whatever \u201cit\u201d is) is now here in the United States. It arrived in Washington State two days ago, clinging to the lungs of a man in his thirties who, upon realizing that he was sick, checked himself into an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County. The office staff gave him a mask to wear and left him waiting for twenty minutes in the front room. It must have been harrowing for him, sitting there alone, knowing that the CDC had put out a health alert, his breath turning more labored, his body aching. Four days earlier, he had flown home from visiting his family in Wuhan. He said that he hadn\u2019t been to the Huanan seafood market where the virus is thought to have started, and he didn\u2019t talk to anyone who was sick. He is (or maybe was?) a healthy non-smoker who hadn\u2019t felt ill until yesterday. They sent him home and told him to quarantine himself while they ran tests. The next day, people in hazmat suits showed up at his house, their face masks fogging up in the warm rain.<\/span>\u00a0They took him to an airborne-isolation unit at the Providence Regional Medical Center.<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a> The hospital has a beautiful view of the sea. \u00a0In 1918, John Muir described the \u201caspiring forests\u201d of Puget Sound and its \u201cbeauty ever changing, in lavish profusion.\u201d<\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a> There is probably not much of a view for this man from Wuhan.<\/span><\/span><\/p> [read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]\n\n

If there is anything to worry about, it is the time that it took for this man to make it from Wuhan to that airborne-isolation unit. A few days ago, Chinese scientists reported that the virus does spread from human contact.\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/span>Since no one screened him at any airport, or for the four days between his arrival in the country on the 15th and when he went to see a doctor on the 19th, the risk that he transmitted this virus somewhere along the way seems real.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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JOE KERNEN: –are there worries about a pandemic at this point?<\/span>\n\nPRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Not at all. And– we\u2019re– we have it totally under control. It\u2019s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It\u2019s\u2014going to be just fine.<\/span>\n\nJOE KERNEN: Okay. And President Xi– there\u2019s just some– talk in China that maybe the transparency isn\u2019t everything that it\u2019s going to be. Do you trust that we\u2019re going to know everything we need to know from China?<\/span>\n\nPRESIDENT TRUMP: I do. I do. I have a great relationship with President Xi. We just signed probably the biggest deal ever made. It certainly has the potential to be the biggest deal ever made. [3]<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The truth is that no one here is talking about this. Like global warming, school shootings, systemic racism, and gender inequality, we think acutely about these global conundrums, and then a warm sense of being-distracted-by-our-own -messy-lives washes over us, and those of us who are not living in the eye of the storm quietly get on with business as usual. We are, understandably, paying attention to the ongoing impeachment trial, and, of course, are open to the general distraction of television and media. In that vein, it is perhaps a sign of the times to note the sad death of Mr. Peanut at the ripe age of 104. In the video\/commercial marking his death<\/a><\/span>, he sacrifices himself to save a white man (Matt Walsh) and a Black man (Wesley Snipes). In an interview, the ad agency said<\/a><\/span> they killed off Mr. Peanut because the popularity of fictional characters soars once once they die. This may be the case, but there are other reasons to let him go. Mr. Peanut always resembled Neville Chamberlain, with his top hat, cane, and monocle\u2014a symbol of the genteel planter class (I think that this was the intended pun in Mr. Peanut, who was created at the turn of the century to make the lowly peanut more palatable to a rising consumer America). I guess no one needs a Foghorn Leghorn peanut man who probably made his wealth on the backs of the working class. You can just imagine him telling Aunt Jemima to make his breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNatsuko Imai, Ilaria Dorigatti et al., Report 2: Estimating the potential total number of novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases in Wuhan City, China, Imperial College London, January 22, 2020.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) SITUATION REPORT, World Health Organization, 21, January 2020. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) SITUATION REPORT, World Health Organization, 21, January 2020. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSatish Pillai, a medical officer in the Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about a confirmed case of 2019 novel coronavirus in Washington state during news conference Tuesday. --JASON REDMOND \/ AP via Getty Images (CNN)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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