CNBC: CDC prepares for possibility coronavirus becomes a pandemic and businesses, schools need to be closed
* The CDC is working with state and local health departments to ready the public health workforce to respond to a possible pandemic.
* The agency is collaborating with supply chain partners, hospitals, pharmacies and manufacturers to understand what medical supplies are needed.
* The CDC is reviewing all of its pandemic materials and adapting them to COVID-19.
U.S. health officials are preparing for the COVID-19 coronavirus, which has killed at least 2,249 people and sickened more than 76,700 worldwide, to become a pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
“We’re not seeing community spread here in the United States, yet, but it’s very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call. “Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S. This buys us more time to prepare communities for more cases and possibly sustained spread.”
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WNU Editor: There are currently 35 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. .... CDC has confirmed 35 cases of novel coronavirus in the US (CNN). I am not a medical specialist. But I am getting ready for a serious outbreak.
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