Originally Posted by
trueblu
If your local community has 1-10 cases, it's able to potentially contain. Once it gets to 50-100, containment becomes very difficult. Once it gets to 1000, it becomes almost impossible. And to go from 1 to 50 is just 6 doublings, 18 days potentially.
Our community has zero cases so far. But our local hospital is a regional infectious disease center and they have taken in one patient from another area. Early days here.