COVID-19 Updates
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Washington State grapples with coronavirus outbreak
King County, Wash. is Ground Zero for the first outbreak on U.S. soil.
News
U.S. reports first death from COVID-19, possible outbreak at long-term care facility
Health officials in Washington state said they are investigating a long-term care facility with two presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 and...
News from the FDA/CDC
CDC revises COVID-19 test kits, broadens ‘person under investigation’ definition
The geographic areas of concern were also expanded to reflect the week’s explosion of cases in Western Europe, Iran, and Asia.
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Pence named COVID-19 point person as CDC reports possible community spread
The CDC also announced the first case of possible community spread of the novel coronavirus, a person in California “who reportedly did not have...
News
COVID-19: Time to ‘take the risk of scaring people’
It’s past time to call the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a pandemic and “time to push people to prepare, and guide their prep,” risk communication...
News from the FDA/CDC
CDC expects eventual community spread of coronavirus in U.S.
The coronavirus is now showing signs of community spread without a known source of exposure in a number of countries.
Commentary
ID Blog: SARS-CoV-2 – What’s in a name?
From “Wuhan virus” to “novel coronavirus-2019” to “COVID-19 virus” to “SARS-CoV-2,” the process of naming is complex and even risky to public...
Feature
WHO urges that ‘window of opportunity’ on containing novel coronavirus not be missed
“We must not look back and regret that we failed to take advantage of the window of opportunity that we have now.”
From the Journals
2019-nCoV: Structure, characteristics of key potential therapy target determined
The 2019-nCoV spike protein, critical to infection in coronaviruses, has been sequenced and synthesized and the 3-D structure determined.
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Doctors look to existing drugs in coronavirus fight
From the Journals
Infection with 2019 novel coronavirus extends to infants
Nine infants with at least one infected family member have tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus.