STAT Washington State could see explosion in coronavirus cases, study says "Seattle is effectively in the position that Wuhan was on Jan. 1, when it first recognized it had an outbreak of a new virus, but did not realize the scale of the problem or the speed at which the virus was spreading, Bedford said." The lack of testing has really put us at a disadvantage. Recommended · Mar 5th, 2020, 9:18 pmhealth covid-19 Paul Bausch