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Disease Caused by the Novel Coronavirus Officially Has a Name: COVID-19
The World Health Organization chose the name based on the type of virus and the year the first cases were seen
"The Coronavirus Outbreak"
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Will the New Coronavirus Keep Spreading or Not? You Have to Know One Little Number
Whenever there’s a new outbreak, scientists rush to calculate a number called R0, or R-naught
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How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia
The novel coronavirus outbreak raises questions about how such pathogens evolve and what makes infections mild or severe
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Novel Coronavirus Is a Reminder: The Best Defense against a New Viral Outbreak Is Early Detection
Infectious disease surveillance networks already exist, but they can be highly porous
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U.S. to Quarantine 195 Americans Evacuated from Wuhan
CDC officials raised the possibility that the coronavirus could become a pandemic, but hoped it would not be
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WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
The declaration was made because of the risk the virus poses to countries outside China, where limited person-to-person spread has occurred
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CDC Confirms First Known Person-to-Person Spread of New Coronavirus in U.S.
The case involved the husband of an infected woman who recently traveled to China
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Want to Prevent Another Coronavirus Epidemic?
We need to treat it as the deadly biological threat it is
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Australian Lab First to Grow New Virus Outside China
The team plans to share the virus with groups around the world to spur development of diagnostics and vaccines
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Stopping the Coronavirus: Have We Learned the Lessons from SARS?
The parallel dos and don’ts for the two viruses are striking
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The Coronavirus Questions That Scientists Are Racing to Answer
Although scientists have learned a lot so far, there is still much they do not know about the novel virus spreading in China and other countries
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Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus
If the virus cannot be contained, it could start regularly circulating in the population like other common respiratory viruses
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China’s Citywide Quarantines: Are They Ethical and Effective?
The country has shut down all travel to and from Wuhan and nearby cities in an attempt to curb the spread of a new virus
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CDC Reports Second U.S. Case of Novel Virus Spreading in China
The patient had recently returned to Chicago from Wuhan
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Four “Generations” of Spread Seen with Virus in China, Alarming Experts
Evidence suggests at least one Chinese patient ignited a chain of human-to-human transmission
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Some Scientists Skeptical about Snakes Spreading New Virus in China
A genetic analysis suggests a reptilian reservoir, but researchers doubt the coronavirus could have originated in animals other than birds or mammals
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WHO Declines to Declare Coronavirus Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
The agency’s director-general said it is an emergency in China, but not yet globally
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Infectious Disease Expert Discusses What We Know about the New Virus in China
Federal disease agency director Anthony Fauci discusses the novel pathogen that has, so far, sickened hundreds in Asia and one person in the U.S.
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WHO Calls for Emergency Meeting on New Virus in China as Cases Spread to Health Care Workers
The new coronavirus has sickened people in several countries, and there has been at least one confirmed case of human-to-human transmission
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WHO Says Mysterious Illness in China Likely Being Caused by New Virus
The virus behind an outbreak that has sickened at least 59 people in Wuhan is thought to be a type of coronavirus, the family that includes SARS and MERS
