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March 4th, 2020

CORONAVIRUS: Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus in California: C.D.C. Confirms Possible Community Transmission Case

By Roni Caryn Rabin

A person in California who was not exposed to anyone known to be infected with the coronavirus, and had not traveled to countries in which the virus is circulating, has tested positive for the infection.

It may be the first case of community spread in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

“At this point, the patient’s exposure is unknown,” the C.D.C. statement said. “The case was detected through the U.S. public health system and picked up by astute clinicians.”

The case was announced shortly after President Trump concluded a news briefing in which he said that aggressive public health containment measures and travel entry restrictions had successfully limited the spread of coronavirus in the United States.

have been sickened by a coronavirus, mostly in China. This map is updated daily

Coronavirus: CDC didn’t immediately test COVID-19 case.

By Jiachuan Wu and Nigel Chiwaya

Health officials worldwide are working to contain cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that originated in China. As of Feb. 26, COVID-19 cases were confirmed in China and more than 35 other countries.

More than 81,000 people have been sickened and at least 2,798 have died of the coronavirus since the start of January, according to NBC News reports, the World Health Organization (WHO) and figures from state government leaders and health officials.

The tally of countries with at least one confirmed case is long: China, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, the United States, France, Australia, Malaysia, Nepal, Germany, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Finland, India, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Austria, Bahrain, Switzerland, Croatia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Brazil.

Coronavirus:  First confirmed U.S. case

By Elizabeth Chuck

Before the first confirmed U.S. case of the new coronavirus infection showed up at a hospital in late January, the patient did exactly what hospital officials in Washington state had hoped for: He gave them a heads-up he was coming.

“What we really want patients to do is call and click through virtual ways, so when they come in, we’re ready for them,” said Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer of Providence St. Joseph Health, the health care system that includes the hospital in Everett to which the patient went.

Preparation is key, she said, and if health care workers can activate so-called disaster readiness plans before patients arrive, the likelihood of containing and properly treating the illness goes up. It’s a lesson learned from previous outbreaks, such as Ebola, and other coronavirus epidemics, including severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.. But his scientists