Washington is home to patient zero for COVID-19 in the United States, and there have now been six deaths here. The only US deaths to date are here. There are 18 cases of COVID-19 in western Washington, and the number of people under supervision: 231. Nationally there are a total of 43 cases according to the CDC and 105 cases according to Johns Hopkins.
Seattle professor and researcher Trevor Bedford estimates that Washington “has at least one cluster of ~570 infected individuals.”
Data support Memo from a News Hound, 03 March 2020.
02 March, domestic
- Arizona: 1 case
- California: 43 cases (24 are from repatriation flights)
- Florida: 2 cases
- Georgia: 2 cases
- Illinois: 4 cases
- New York: 1 case
- Massachusetts: 1 case
- Oregon: 3 cases
- Rhode Island: 2 cases
- Texas: 11 cases (all from repatriation flights)
- Washington: 18 cases (King County, 14; Snohomish County, 4)
- Wisconsin: 1 case
02 March, global
- Globally: 88,948 confirmed (1,804 new)
- China: 80,174 confirmed (206 new); 2,915 deaths (42 new)
- Outside of China: 8,774 confirmed (1,598 new) in 64 countries (6 new); 128 deaths (24 new)
- Global confirmed: 90,936
- Total deaths: 3,117
- Total recovered: 48,017
