It's mostly because we are closer to China so more people from China and Japan and South Korea tend to live in or visit California, Oregon and Washington than states further East. It's mostly about proximity to Asia. So, as a result western states are going to be hit harder (at first) than eastern states. But, within a week or two it likely will all even out nationwide to more equal amounts of people dying everywhere in the U.S. from Coronavirus. Why?
Because some people are carriers, a small percentage of the carriers get sick, then an even smaller amount of those that get sick then die. BUT, they die at about 20 times the rate of the common flu.
ADDED LATER: this paragraph: I learned today that Coronavirus is rated a 3 or 4 in regard to how infectious it is. A common flu is rated at a 1.5. which basically means one carrier (that isn't diagnosed with it) can spread it to 3 to 4 people quite easily. So, the people who are spreading this the most don't know they are carriers and might not ever get it.
So, because we have open borders between all U.S. states the coronavirus will soon equalize in the amount of cases between all states.
However, by April I'm thinking this all will be much less of a problem because of warming weather and people getting sick less. However, in the meantime it likely is going to ravage Convalescent homes where many older people are cared for nationwide.
Also, if people from Italy and Iran or people visiting there are traveling to the U.S. then some of them who are carriers but not sick yet who won't test positive yet will also spread the virus when they arrive on planes or boats here in the U.S. from cities overseas or on private jets or other transportation.
Carriers of the Coronavirus have no idea that they have been exposed at all. They will not show a temperature. They won't know that they are carriers of the Coronavirus. They won't know that what they carry can and will kill others. So, when they travel (especially young healthy people traveling the world) they won't have a clue what they are carrying and likely might never get sick from, while their parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles might die from what they are carrying unknown to them.
So, checking these young carriers for temperatures has no meaning at all but now you won't know who they are worldwide. And so, this thing likely cannot be stopped at this point worldwide until it goes through most of the population possibly for at least 1 1/2 years until a vaccine is created.
For example, people in the White House might get it from traveling and even Trump or his family might get it at this point and no one likely could stop this at this point either. This is how crazy all this is at this point.
My point of view is that this is China's revenge on Trump for the Trade War whether Trump gets this or not. I would say looking at this now we are looking at the end of the Trump Presidency the way this is presently going. (or the way this is not being dealt with in any useful practical scientific way by Trump and his people).
Also, because Europe has open borders in the European Union sort of like the U.S. states all do, Europe and the U.S. will likely have a similar amount of deaths from the Coronavirus in a ratio based upon the population of each country in the European Union and the U.S.
2% of the population of the U.S. is 6,544,000 which would be the maximum amount of people that could die from coronavirus over time here in the U.S.
100% of the population of the U.S. is: 327.2 million
2% of the population of the European Union is 10,248,000 which is the maximum amount of people that could die from the Coronavirus.
100% of the population of the European Union is: 512.4 million
However, these are only theoretical maximums given a 2% toll from the full populations which theoretically at least would not be possible (unless other variables entered into the situation which we presently are unaware of).
People from Italy or Iran or traveling through those countries likely won't be allowed back in the U.S. but some people are going to go to another country by air and just not tell people that they were in Italy or Iran or China or Korea or Japan. This is happening too.
The people who would be most likely to avoid or not follow regulations or laws would be the very rich and the very poor which have their unique sets of reasons why they don't follow rules.
Trump is a perfect example of someone who doesn't follow rules who is a billionaire and believes he is above the law. So now, just imagine 1000s of people like him sidestepping rules and regulations with their private jets worldwide. IF you have enough money you can literally do anything. So, look for carriers who are very rich or very poor sidestepping rules from country to country. For the very rich super yachts and private planes or jets. For the very poor people running illegally across the borders of every country that are either infected or just carriers of coronavirus.
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