The deadly coronavirus could cause ‘severe’ disruptions in the US, a CDC official warned Tuesday. Is it too late to stop the pandemic?
A federal health official warned Tuesday that the deadly coronavirus could cause"severe" disruptions in the U.S. as global experts struggled"Disruption to everyday life may be severe," Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, warned at a news conference Tuesday. Schools in some areas could be forced to close, businesses temporarily shuttered, she said.
“As community spread is detected in more and more countries, the world moves closer to meeting the third criteria – worldwide spread of the new virus,” Messonnier said."did not fit the facts,"Dennis Carroll, former director of the U.S. AID's Global Health Security and Development Unit, credited China's"extraordinary control measures" with delaying the spread of the virus. But he said avoiding a pandemic is"very unlikely.
Melissa Nolan, a medical doctor and professor of epidemiology at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, also cited the new clusters in Iran, now facing at least 61 cases and 15 deaths, and Italy, with 270 cases. Nolan said responses to the outbreaks in Iran and Italy could help health officials in other countries prepare their own medical and quarantine policies ahead of an outbreak. That is crucial, says Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, who says the world is on the"cusp" of pandemic.
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