I'm sure you are right. I read that information in some article which obviously had it wrong. My mistake.
At any rate, there was no indication that it was anywhere near here at the time. And apparently there were no death in the U.S. until 4 days after Mardi Gras. Anyway, the point is that by the time Mardi Gras was ending the entire thing was really just getting into the national consciousness. In fact, I didn't know much of anything about it until a few days after Mardi Gras because work was keeping me too busy to see much news. I'm sure others knew more, but the vast majority of people thought it was just something people who had actually gone to China had gotten. Obviously that wasn't the case.