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SDM
Santa Fe New Mexico 4m ago
25,000 scientists from all over the world converged on San Francisco for the annual AGU meeting between December 7 and 14. A member of my family attended. As co-chairs for a session, he sat next to a colleague on Dec 13 who had fallen ill while there but come to the session anyway. She coughed and sneezed through the two hours she was there and then left halfway through, so sick she immediately caught a plane home.
My relative fell ill when he returned to NM. He became so ill with respiratory symptoms that, he said, at times he thought he “wasn’t going to make it.” At Urgent Care they tested him for flu, which came back negative.
This week, his colleague from that session sent him an email: Her Post-Doc, who also attended the meeting, grew up in Wuhan. He spent his evenings socializing with friends from Wuhan who had come from China for the meeting. He also fell ill, as did one other of her students. None were tested for Covid19 as this was December 2019.
We suspect these may have been some of the first cases of the virus in the USA. Reliable antibody tests will be needed to determine when the disease really arrived in the USA.
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My relative fell ill when he returned to NM. He became so ill with respiratory symptoms that, he said, at times he thought he “wasn’t going to make it.” At Urgent Care they tested him for flu, which came back negative.
This week, his colleague from that session sent him an email: Her Post-Doc, who also attended the meeting, grew up in Wuhan. He spent his evenings socializing with friends from Wuhan who had come from China for the meeting. He also fell ill, as did one other of her students. None were tested for Covid19 as this was December 2019.
We suspect these may have been some of the first cases of the virus in the USA. Reliable antibody tests will be needed to determine when the disease really arrived in the USA.
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