Italy has overtaken South Korea as most cases outside of China.

I heard drinking water helps since you then swallow any virus down which gets killed by stomach acid before it can infect you. So that way hot weather could help. Here it seems the opposite, first nice day, everyone comes out, very busy at the park. Soon baseball and soccer practice will start again. But maybe outdoor sports have a lower infection rate.

Seems like Spain will be the next Italy. 555 new cases today alone. Probably 700-1000 tomorrow.

And I hope Turkey will start to realize that hiding it doesn't help anyone. Also not their economy so dependent of tourism. 

Italy goes in full lockdown...

I'd say it's too early to do so just yet. Wait until the US get fully hit by the virus...

It looks like Israel is the first to get the message

All people entering Israel now must be quarantined. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "After a day of complex discussions, we have made a decision: Whoever arrives in Israel from abroad will enter quarantine for 14 days. This is a difficult decision but it is essential to maintaining public health, which takes precedence over everything. This decision will be in effect for two weeks. At the same time, we will make decisions to safeguard the Israeli economy"

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Israeli-diagnosis-two-more-people-with-coronavirus-patients-40-and-41-620347

Trump vs Merkel

Trump's early travel restrictions vs. EU open borders

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Just because it hit the USA later than especially Italy doesn't mean USA won't get the same problems nor do the numbers from USA mean that they are real numbers. 

Test as many people as Italy or other countries do and we will see how many infected USA really has.

But I guess some people will never learn until they are infected and even then they will say everything is fine because...Trump

Just look back some weeks ago. China had 10000x as many cases as the EU even with open borders!

BTW there are many countries without "open borders" which have a much higher infection rate per 1m population than most countries in the EU have. But I'm sure you won't care about that.  

I hope you also realize that a big chunk of that comes only from Italy and that has nothing to do with open borders in the first EU country where it all really began, Ohh and it's also not true that there are around 23,000 infected in the EU. It's more like 14,000 right now if I look at the full list of countries. Or where do you get the other 9k from? South Korea, Japan and Diamond Princess or what? 

You can't be that illogical not to see that there is only one country in the EU right now (Italy) which looks much worse as the already confirmed 650+ cases in the USA and countries like Germany test many more to also find more.  

Today, already 4280 new cases and 200 more people died, but politics...

ALL OF ITALY NOW IN EMERGENCY LOCKDOWN
Strict quarantine measures extended to all regions
Public told to stay home
Schools closed until April 3rd
No travel unless with a valid work or family reason
All public gatherings and sports events suspended

There must be many more cases in the USA already, as well as Egypt and probably many more countries. Might as well close the airports now.

Nice theories but in reality, it's the sun.... uv light destroys the virus much faster than anything else. So the chances of picking up the virus from something with the virus on it diminishes by the minutes, not by the days.