Fifteen cases in all and for everything. This Friday, February 28, this is the rather reassuring assessment of surveillance implemented in the United States since the emergence of the Sars-COV-2 virus. Among the identified carriers, twelve recently stayed in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic. The first, a man in his thirties, was diagnosed on January 21 in Washington State. His relatives were placed under surveillance, as were those of other infected patients. Only three local contaminations are identified at this stage.
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In comparison with Italy, which already counts nine hundred sick people and where ten cities have just been quarantined, the United States seems to have the situation under control. But a handful of virologists warn: the virus, transmissible within the human species and difficult to detect in its asymptomatic carriers, has surely started its silent race. History will prove them right. A month later,
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