Scientist: Genetic analysis suggests coronavirus has been spreading in Washington state for weeks

Here s former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb reiterating this morning on Face the Nation that there s already an iceberg here of some as yet undetermined size and we ve only seen the tip of it thus far. Exit question: Is it a coincidence that reports of new cases in the U.S. this week were mostly clustered on the west coast? Washington had a couple, Oregon has a patient now, and there are a few in the northern half of California. Maybe that s a simple function of (relative) geographic proximity to Asia, with travelers returning from China landing in airports on the west coast. But I m eager to see if there s any genetic similarity between the cases in the three states. If there is, that would mean much wider community spread than we suspect.

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