cases in the US has reached 6,233 by Tuesday (2300 GMT), according to JHU's Center for Systems Science and Engineering. All 50 states in the US have reported cases and 105 deaths have been reported across the country.
Curiously, the last state to report the first case of the virus is West Virginia, which is very near to the reported lab accident in August last year.
Is it by chance that West Virginia, which happened to be near the lab accident, is the last state to report the first case of the virus?
It's intuitive to think that a lab accident would cause a viral outbreak that would see an increase in cases but this happened August last year and so one would expect herd immunity would have already been built (for what thought to be a pneumonia-causing disease), that would mean no cases or few cases for the current outbreak.
Of course, this is all hypothesis with no proof at this time and it might well be by chance that West Virginia is the last to report a case and only one case so far.
Then again, this can only be proven with the availability of the virus antibody test and an investigation (if there ever be one) actually carried out in the states to see the distribution of immunity in the country.
