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I'm certain you agree that if the point of entry has not had universal precautions in place for the last months, it is unlikely that the POE was screening arriving individuals who were carrying the germ.

If a person arrived from an endemic area during the incubation period, they would be asymptomatic at arrival. Once in the country, they would be spreading the disease.

If the disease is as contagious as FR readers are contending, the virus would be spread across entire cities by this time.

Robust isolation of US cases appears to be occuring. NBC News showed a guy who was ordered to remain at home, but was out tossing football in his front yard and feeling good.

Do you feel that SARS is a real emergency?

>>Do you feel that SARS is a real emergency?<<

I think it is a new viral pneumonia with a mortality rate of 4% +/- 2%, and that it is rather surprisingly contagious in closed and semi-closed public places.

I think allowing exposed but not yet symptomatic persons into the US is absurd.

Calling it an emergency may be hyperbolic, but it is certainly unusual. Absent intervention, the number of infected persons could become quite large.