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

Wow, that would seem to be rather major news. We're not talking about cases on the coasts, but very much inland and north. These days, that's not eye-opening, but back in January this stuff was "just getting here" or so we thought. It seems that it has been around and more widespread than we realized. I'd see that as good news because it means more people have likely been exposed and didn't even know it.

Given that the virus arrived in the US from Asia and Europe by air travel, I'm not sure that the location (orientation to coasts) really matters all that much. Ohio has three major cities and a bunch of medium sized cities. It's not particularly surprising that someone could have flow into Ohio carrying the virus. January (late) matches up with the genome study so far.