This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
For starters, The deaths in state of Washington should be subject to a criminal investigation. Amazing that there has been no spread for there, alone?
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the virus that caused the outbreak in Washington, and compared it to the one in China.
They believe the virus arrived in Washington from China sometime in mid-January, and was spreading undetected since then. By the time deaths started, it was already widespread.
This is the site:
https://nextstrain.org/
And here's the article about it:
https://nextstrain.org/narratives/ncov/sit-rep/2020-03-05?n=10