COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

These two articles kind of play off of each other. I have been saying through this thread that i was almost certain this virus was in Louisiana in Mid December. Some posters posed the question then how come the hospitals were not getting overrun? Well now we might know. Maybe it was a less contagious strain? The kind that go around daycares where i’m almost positive our family got it.
Also other possible reasons for hospitals to not be overrun in the true beginning.

I think the beginning we had a small number of localized cases. A singular match in certain areas of the country. The spread was very slow.

In March, the introduction of numerous cases happened. The inoculum was intense. And spread very fast.,

I still stand by my statement that this made landfall very early. I still predict late November and early December. Thanksgiving travel made it global imo.