![]() Far from the vision of the United States being the “best in the world” painted in Trump’s speech, the U.S. Italy has tested 40 times as many people per capita as the United States France has tested seven times as many. cases are growing exponentially-both as the virus spreads and as more existing cases are discovered through testing that has been critically short on the ground, as a study in Seattle has revealed. To be sure, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States is smaller than in Italy, France, or Germany, despite its larger population. You can bar the doors and the windows, but the serial killer is already inside the house-and has been for some time. The virus is not a Chinese problem or a foreign one. This is the same the world over, even in China. communities-quite possibly from well before the virus was first detected. When the chains of contact are reconstructed, they will show patterns of infection inside U.S. It leaps from American host to American host, just as it does between others. Right now, COVID-19 is burrowed into bodies and smeared on door handles nationwide in the United States, regardless of where its hosts came from or what passport they hold. ![]() ![]() Once it had escaped containment within its original small patch in Wuhan, China, making its way to the United States was as inevitable as the arrival of McDonalds in downtown Beijing more than two decades ago. It never was, nor could be, in an age as globalized as this one. But the new coronavirus is not a foreign problem now. ![]()
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