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The initial news report in chapter 1 mentioned "men and women attacking each other. Biting and thrashing at one another."
Right, "men and women", not zombie-creatures. After that, Michael gets the call from Angel and heads out. While bogged down in traffic, he hears another report on the car radio that continues to refer to it as a riot. Then Michael gets his first glimpse of the creatures first hand. His journal states "The news made it sound like it was people gone mad, but the way they moved made me think they weren't people at all." It seems like the media was reporting it as people rioting in LA (crazy people acting crazy, but people all the same) and not as some sort of zombie-type-outbreak. So there might have been more behind the other "riots" that they were reporting as well.

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Kimmet also said it started in the west and traveled to the east in about a day and a half.
Kimmet said that it multiplied and spread across the country in about a day and a half. I took that to mean the country was saturated after a day and a half, reaching all of the remote regions. In that case, the initial outbreaks on the East Coast could have been earlier than that. There are a lot of details that we are missing about the rest of the US/World, so its hard to say for sure.

I do like this theory. Does it explain everything? No. But I definitely feel it could have helped the outbreak spread across the US and the globe.

Where I get hung up with this theory is that Kalani said the Hawaiian outbreak started on the Big Island and not on Honolulu.