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Old 04-03-2020, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62 View Post
One problem with that., Pete: Both L.A. and San Francisco have international airports but far fewer cases of COVID-19 infections and deaths than NYC. Indianapolis is “on fire” with COVID-19 yet has very few(Air Canada only) international flights. Louisville has an international airport which handles hundreds of international fights per week(UPS is an international airline) yet is one of the least COVID-19 infected larger cities in the U.S.
Perhaps they didn't have any *direct* connections to Wuhan? JFK did.
And Italy's international airport is in the North, Milan. And it might be
dumb luck in which a flight narrowly avoids becoming a carrier? At any
rate, foreign viruses need to find their way through ports of entry, in this
case, international air ports. It's almost as if you can't have areas of high
population density without having an international airport.

IMO, it's a factor worth considering. The hit and miss nature of the virus
makes it tough to track, but it found a way into the country.

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