Sigh... Tuesday, there were two more cases in Santa Clara County (#10, #11), source under investigation on both. No real further information about the others, but they indicated two cases (not counting the new ones) have no known source. IMO, it would be better to say there are two clusters (where a single individual may be a cluster) whose sources are unknown, as it may be difficult to know which was the first infection in a cluster. I suspect these correspond to cases #3 and #5.
Double sigh.... New cases in its county doesn't make the Mercury News (as of 12:30AM). But concern about hoarding toilet paper in Australia does! Channel 7 did cover the new cases & guidelines (posted at 7:30PM).
Santa Clara County has dropped identifying gender or whether the patients are hospitalized. To me, it seems obvious they are hospitalized. If these cases were discovered by chasing down known contacts, their sources wouldn't be under investigation. If these were people that had recently been overseas, the sources wouldn't be under investigation. Since it was neither of those situations, these two new cases are almost surely hospitalized as they wouldn't have been tested otherwise.
If you take the statistic of 80% of the cases are mild, and Santa Clara county now has (by my calculation) 6 hospitalized cases (#3, #5, #6, #7, #10, #11), how many cases would that suggest there are?
(The case in San Mateo County is hospitalized with unknown source of infection.)
Someone please ask the SCC DPH to indicate publicly whether any of the new cases, showing up Feb 28 and later, match the genome of the disease in the patient who was released on Feb 20. It won't make much difference to the spread in this county now, but, whichever way that is answered, may give useful information to areas where there are one or two cases of the disease.
Double sigh.... New cases in its county doesn't make the Mercury News (as of 12:30AM). But concern about hoarding toilet paper in Australia does! Channel 7 did cover the new cases & guidelines (posted at 7:30PM).
Santa Clara County has dropped identifying gender or whether the patients are hospitalized. To me, it seems obvious they are hospitalized. If these cases were discovered by chasing down known contacts, their sources wouldn't be under investigation. If these were people that had recently been overseas, the sources wouldn't be under investigation. Since it was neither of those situations, these two new cases are almost surely hospitalized as they wouldn't have been tested otherwise.
If you take the statistic of 80% of the cases are mild, and Santa Clara county now has (by my calculation) 6 hospitalized cases (#3, #5, #6, #7, #10, #11), how many cases would that suggest there are?
(The case in San Mateo County is hospitalized with unknown source of infection.)
Someone please ask the SCC DPH to indicate publicly whether any of the new cases, showing up Feb 28 and later, match the genome of the disease in the patient who was released on Feb 20. It won't make much difference to the spread in this county now, but, whichever way that is answered, may give useful information to areas where there are one or two cases of the disease.