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Originally Posted by 242177P
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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Could it be the moratorium on direct flights into L.AX and San Francisco actually slowed the progression of COVID-19 in these areas? NYC has the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of mainland China. It has been calculated that from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan to the moratorium on direct flights from China over 700,000 Chinese nationals who were potentially infected entered the U.S. It couldn’t have happened at a worst time of the new year; Chinese New Year and the height of flu season.