3.4 Million Travellers Poured Into The U.S. When The Coronavirus Pandemic erupted

ABC News: Disaster in motion: 3.4 million travellers poured into US as coronavirus pandemic erupted

"The numbers are clearly alarming."

An ABC News investigation offers sobering insight into how COVID-19 has spread and penetrated so broadly, so deeply and so quickly in the United States. It also helps explain why Americans, no matter where they live, must continue to heed the warnings of health officials to self distance and why the virus likely was here far earlier than first realized.

With the advent of COVID-19, the world has officially entered a dangerous new phase where a surge in international travel in recent decades served as the springboard -- jet fuel, really -- for an infectious disease potentially to kill hundreds of thousands in the U.S. and infect the global economy at breathtaking speed.

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WNU Editor: The best explanation I have read so far on why this disease spread so quickly ....

.... "The high volume of international travel, the lack of screening, the inconsistent hand-washing and cough control ... these laid down the perfect conditions for a disease to spread. Add that to a virus that is both largely asymptomatic and has a prolonged infectious period, and you have got a perfect storm of factors for a pandemic."

The data from China on people leaving the country when the pandemic erupted is also shocking ....

.... Travel data of passengers arriving in the United States from China during the critical period in December, January and February, when the disease took hold in that country, shows a stunning 759,493 people entered the U.S.

I live in Montreal, Canada, and it is now the epicentre of this pandemic in Canada. Why is that the case? Spring break occurred at the same time when the coronavirus had established itself in places where Quebecers go for a week vacation. We also had the arrival of hundreds of thousands of "snowbirds", Quebecers who live in places like Florida for the winter who come back to Quebec in March and April to live here when it starts to get warm.