{"id":50730,"date":"2020-01-26T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50730"},"modified":"2020-01-26T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T21:11:24","slug":"cdc-calls-cov-serious-emerging-public-health-threat-confirms-5th-us-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50730","title":{"rendered":"CDC Calls CoV &#8220;Serious Emerging Public Health Threat&#8221;, Confirms 5th US Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/third-us-coronavirus-case-confirmed-orange-county\">CDC Calls CoV &#8220;Serious Emerging Public Health Threat&#8221;, Confirms 5th US Case<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>5th US Coronavirus infection confirmed by CDC in 4 states (AZ, CA, IL, WA)<\/strong><\/li><li>CDC calls the virus an&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&#8220;emerging public health threat,&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;adding that the<strong>&nbsp;threat is &#8220;serious.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li><li>2082 cases, 56 Official deaths<\/li><li><strong>Incubation is asymptomatic, contagious<\/strong>, and can be as long as 14 days<\/li><li>5M may have left Wuhan for Lunar New Year<\/li><li><strong>1st case was Dec 1<\/strong>&nbsp;NOT Dec 31 so infect pop may be much bigger<\/li><li>US, Russia, Thailand begin plans for&nbsp;<strong>evacuation<\/strong><\/li><li>Premier Li Keqiang charged with leading government&#8217;s task force<\/li><li>3 Beijing hospitals using AIDS drugs to treat virus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>*&nbsp; *&nbsp; *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (1510ET)<\/strong>: CDC reports that a&nbsp;<strong>fifth infection has been confirmed in the US<\/strong>&nbsp;(in Arizona), calling the&nbsp;<strong>coronavirus an &#8220;emerging public health threat,&#8221; says threat is &#8220;serious.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Situation Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (termed &#8220;2019-nCoV&#8221;) that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and which continues to expand. Chinese health officials have reported more than a thousand infections with 2019-nCoV in China, including outside of Hubei Province.&nbsp;<strong>Infections with 2019-nCoV also are being reported in a growing number of international locations, including the United States, where 5 cases in travelers from Wuhan have been confirmed in four states (AZ, CA, IL, WA) as of January 26, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source and Spread of the Virus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese health authorities were the first to post the full genome of the 2019-nCoV in GenBank \u00a0El , the NIH genetic sequence database, and in the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID Z ) portal, an action which has facilitated detection of this virus. On January 24, 2020, CDC posted in GenBank the full genome of the 2019-nCoV virus detected in the first U.S. patient from Washington state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Calls CoV &#8220;Serious Emerging Public Health Threat&#8221;, Confirms 5th US Case Summary:\u00a0 5th US Coronavirus infection confirmed by CDC in 4 states (AZ, CA, IL, WA) CDC calls the virus an&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;emerging public health threat,&#8221;&nbsp;adding that the&nbsp;threat is &#8220;serious.&#8221; 2082 cases, 56 Official deaths Incubation is asymptomatic, contagious, and can be as long as 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,121,130,28817,827,7258],"class_list":["post-50730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cdc","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-united-states","tag-viral-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50731,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730\/revisions\/50731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}