{"id":103147,"date":"2020-03-02T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/researchers-say-coronavirus-likely-spread-silently-in-washington-for-weeks"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:02:56","slug":"researchers-say-coronavirus-likely-spread-silently-in-washington-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/researchers-say-coronavirus-likely-spread-silently-in-washington-for-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say coronavirus likely spread silently in Washington for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-say-coronavirus-likely-spread-silently-in-washington-for-weeks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wuhan coronavirus pandemic \u2014 washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists suggest it has spread in King County for 6 weeks already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat being so, Bedford and other researchers believe the virus has likely been spreading through the community undetected for close to six weeks. Researchers estimate that could mean anywhere from 150 to 1,500 people have been infected here, with the most likely number being between 300 and 500.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, may have been spreading in Washington state for weeks undetected, according to researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/seattleflu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Seattle Flu Study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1742814\/1-more-death-3-cases-coronavirus-king-county\/\"><strong>1 more death, 3 new cases of coronavirus reported in King County<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours after a press conference Saturday announcing new cases of the virus in King County, including the first U.S. death, researchers took to Twitter to reveal results of a genome analysis. The analysis strongly suggested the case of the virus confirmed Friday in a Snohomish County teen from Jackson High School descended from the county\u2019s only other confirmed case \u2013 the first U.S. case \u2013 way back in mid-January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/researchers-say-coronavirus-likely-spread-silently-in-washington-for-weeks\">Continue reading \u201cResearchers say coronavirus likely spread silently in Washington for weeks\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wuhan coronavirus pandemic \u2014 washington state. Scientists suggest it has spread in King County for 6 weeks already. \u201cThat being so, Bedford and other researchers believe the virus has likely been spreading through the community undetected for close to six weeks. Researchers estimate that could mean anywhere from 150 to 1,500 people have been infected [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}