Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

States to get CDC coronavirus tests

Cassidy Morrison · February 6, 2020 10:06 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

Coronavirus doctor who warned of epidemic dies after contracting illness: Report

Spencer Neale · February 6, 2020 4:01 pm

Un trabajador mÃ©dico escribe en un tubo tras recoger una muestra de un paciente en un hotel utilizado para colocar a personas en cuarentena en Wuhan, en la provincia central de Hubei, China, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020.

Wisconsin sees first coronavirus patient as total US cases increase to a dozen

Zach Halaschak · February 5, 2020 10:47 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

CDC prepares sites for three planes returning from coronavirus epicenter

Spencer Neale · February 5, 2020 5:04 pm

With HIV, politics let disease go viral. Don’t let it happen again

Elliott Millenson · February 5, 2020 5:00 am

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

US military hosts dropped off supplies in the parking lot for quarantined coronavirus diplomats

Abraham Mahshie · February 4, 2020 8:35 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

China accuses US of sowing fear about deadly coronavirus

Cassidy Morrison · February 3, 2020 7:04 pm

US to rush more citizens back from China to escape coronavirus

Kimberly Leonard · February 3, 2020 5:13 pm

National security adviser on coronavirus: ‘No reason for Americans to panic’

Madison Dibble · February 2, 2020 5:58 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Top US infectious disease doctor has ‘no doubt’ coronavirus can spread before symptoms

Zach Halaschak · January 31, 2020 7:28 pm

A woman wearing a protective mask prays during a Mass at Manila's Chinatown, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.

‘Our names will live in infamy’: Mayor of Wuhan offers to resign over virus response

Zach Halaschak · January 31, 2020 4:54 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

State Department issues ‘Level 4: Do Not Travel’ China advisory

John Gage · January 31, 2020 2:43 am