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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 12:10 p.m. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal health officials issued a blunt message Tuesday: Americans need to start preparing now for the possibility that more aggressive, disruptive measures might be needed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strongly worded warning came in response to outbreaks of the virus outside China, including in Iran, Japan, South Korea and Italy, which officials say have raised the likelihood of outbreaks occurring stateside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but more really a question of when it will happen — and how many people in this country will have severe illness,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters during a briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While aggressive measures such as travel restrictions and the first federal quarantine in a half century have probably slowed the arrival of the coronavirus in the U.S., Messonnier said even more intrusive steps likely will be needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare with the expectation that this could be bad,” Messonnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a conversation with my family over breakfast this morning. And I told my children that while I didn’t think that they were at risk right now, we, as a family, need to be preparing for significant disruption of our lives,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those measures could include school closings, workplace shutdowns and canceling large gatherings and public events, she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand this whole situation may seem overwhelming and that disruption to everyday life may be severe, but these are things that people need to start thinking about now,” Messonnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Americans need to do things like start making plans to care for their children should schools and day care centers close, she said. They should talk to their employers about how they could work from home. And they should find out if there might be a way to get medical care remotely, such as through telemedicine, Messonnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stressed that the current risk remains low. Almost all the cases that have occurred in the United States have been among travelers who got infected overseas. In addition, there’s always the chance that the coronavirus could begin to subside as the spring and summer arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807483553/coronavirus-is-contagious-but-kids-seem-less-vulnerable-so-far\">80% of infections are mild\u003c/a>, no more severe than the common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, there have been 14 confirmed cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 in the U.S. and 40 other cases among people who were repatriated to the U.S. after being on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. An additional three cases are among people who were repatriated from Hubei province in China, where the respiratory virus emerged months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hand-washing with soap and water continues to be a top recommendation to protect against the virus, since the abrasiveness of soap helps remove infectious particles from the hands. Experts say that commonly worn surgical masks \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/29/800531753/face-masks-what-doctors-say-about-their-role-in-containing-coronavirus\">aren’t very effective protection\u003c/a>. A heavy-duty mask called an N95 respirator is considerably better protection, but it is uncomfortable to wear and can make breathing more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html\">advised\u003c/a> against nonessential travel to China and South Korea, countries that have seen the highest numbers of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because there are so many unknowns, state and local officials and average Americans need to be prepared, Messonnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to hope that in the end we’ll look back and feel like we were overprepared. But that is a better place to be in than being underprepared,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>World Health Organization Sees Progress\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, despite worrisome new outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea, the coronavirus disease called COVID-19 is not currently a pandemic, the World Health Organization said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there are some encouraging trends, especially in Hubei province, where most of the cases have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The epidemic there appears to have plateaued in late January and is continuing on a good trajectory. Dr. Bruce Aylward led a WHO trip to China with a scientific delegation that just concluded. On Sunday, he told reporters in Beijing that trend is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aylward said that he’d spoken to a researcher in Wuhan who is testing potential drugs to treat COVID-19, “and when I asked him what challenge they’re finding in trying to implement the trial, he said the single biggest one is recruiting new patients … because of the drop in cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a good kind of problem. The message from China is that it’s not hopeless, he says. It is possible to control this disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we’re starting to see countries like Italy take extremely aggressive actions,” Aylward said. “What China has demonstrated is you have to do this, and if you do it you can save lives and prevent thousands of cases of what is a very difficult disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the public’s full cooperation to do the simplest tasks is a reason for the success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Believe it or not, the most valuable thing the whole population can do is wash its hands, continually,” he said. Other useful measures include avoiding crowds, as you’d find in schools and large gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restricting travel is not on Aylward’s list of useful actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to lock down cities is the big message from China, in fact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WHO scientific delegation’s task was to learn what worked in China and to spread the word. But even during their brief trip, the disease was making serious inroads in South Korea, Iran and Italy. As of Monday morning, South Korea \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200224-sitrep-35-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=1ac4218d_2\">had reported\u003c/a> 763 cases, Iran had reported 43 cases — including eight deaths — and Italy added 48 cases to bring its national total to 124.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of speculation about whether this increase means that this epidemic has now become a pandemic,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a news conference in Geneva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 14 cases of the virus diagnosed in the U.S., all in people who traveled recently to China or their close contacts, according to STAT. Another 39 U.S. residents have been infected in other parts of the world before being repatriated and quarantined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assigning that label isn’t simply a matter of whether a disease is on multiple continents, but whether it’s out of control and doing significant damage. Those are decisions that WHO makes before declaring that a disease is a pandemic. The term was last used for the H1N1 flu virus that struck in 2009, sickening more than 60 million in the U.S. alone and killing some half a million worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does this virus [that causes COVID-19] have pandemic potential?” Tedros asked rhetorically. “Absolutely it has. Are we there yet? From our assessment, not yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still time for countries to get in front of it. The WHO’s top priorities are to protect health care workers, to protect vulnerable people such as those who are sick and elderly, and to protect vulnerable countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the advanced nations of Europe have work to do, since their hospitals are pretty full these days with flu patients. Those beds might be needed for coronavirus patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the spread of the coronavirus in Europe can be slowed until the end of flu season, that “will free up significant capacity of the health system,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director for the WHO’s Health Emergency Program. “So even slowing down the virus by a month or six weeks has a massive positive benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials in the United States know they can’t count indefinitely on their current strategy — identifying every new case immediately and isolating those patients. 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Kids appear to be especially sensitive to this year’s flu.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in infectious diseases regard influenza with great seriousness,” Schaffner said. “And that’s why, of course, we urge vaccination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He highly recommends regular hand washing. Public health experts do not recommend wearing a mask to ward off either the flu or the coronavirus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Contagious is the Novel Coronavirus?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel coronavirus is thought to have originated in a seafood market in Wuhan, the political, cultural and economic hub of central China. Scientists have not yet identified the animal host, or the way the virus spread to humans. Now it passes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">person to person\u003c/a> through respiratory droplets from coughs or sneezes, pretty much like the flu and the common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are no confirmed cases in northern California. If that changes, public health officials in the region say they’re ready. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have physicians staffing call lines 24 hours a day all week,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Susan Philip at the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s emergency command center. “\u003c/span>And we are able to communicate and advise providers and emergency departments about how to proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philip urges anyone who has recently traveled to China to see a doctor if they experience flu-like symptoms like a cough, shortness of breath, or fever. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How Lethal is the Novel Coronavirus?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s very difficult to know how deadly the novel coronavirus is because it’s still very early in the outbreak. According to statistics published Feb 24 in \u003cem>JAMA, \u003c/em>2.3% of infected patients have died. 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An\u003c/span>d so it’s it’s not surprising that here in the United States we have an outbreak of coronavirus anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of this writing, health authorities have confirmed 60 cases of novel coronavirus in the U.S. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How Deadly is the Flu?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1918 influenza pandemic\u003c/a> infected one-third of the world’s population and killed close to 50 million people. A century ago, public health was very different. These days the flu kills, on average, 10-40,000 Americans a year. Usually the risk is greatest for older people or anyone with a preexisting condition. Kids appear to be especially sensitive to this year’s flu.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in infectious diseases regard influenza with great seriousness,” Schaffner said. “And that’s why, of course, we urge vaccination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He highly recommends regular hand washing. Public health experts do not recommend wearing a mask to ward off either the flu or the coronavirus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Contagious is the Novel Coronavirus?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel coronavirus is thought to have originated in a seafood market in Wuhan, the political, cultural and economic hub of central China. Scientists have not yet identified the animal host, or the way the virus spread to humans. Now it passes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">person to person\u003c/a> through respiratory droplets from coughs or sneezes, pretty much like the flu and the common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are no confirmed cases in northern California. If that changes, public health officials in the region say they’re ready. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have physicians staffing call lines 24 hours a day all week,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Susan Philip at the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s emergency command center. “\u003c/span>And we are able to communicate and advise providers and emergency departments about how to proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philip urges anyone who has recently traveled to China to see a doctor if they experience flu-like symptoms like a cough, shortness of breath, or fever. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How Lethal is the Novel Coronavirus?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s very difficult to know how deadly the novel coronavirus is because it’s still very early in the outbreak. According to statistics published Feb 24 in \u003cem>JAMA, \u003c/em>2.3% of infected patients have died. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some infectious disease experts are warning that it may no longer be feasible to contain the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/24/dna-sleuths-read-coronavirus-genome-tracing-origins-and-mutations/\">new coronavirus circulating in China\u003c/a>. Failure to stop it there could see the virus spread in a sustained way around the world and even perhaps join the ranks of respiratory viruses that regularly infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more we learn about it, the greater the possibility is that transmission will not be able to be controlled with public health measures,” said Dr. Allison McGeer, a Toronto-based infectious disease specialist who contracted SARS in 2003 and who helped Saudi Arabia control several hospital-based outbreaks of MERS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, she said, “we’re living with a new human virus, and we’re going to find out if it will spread around the globe.” McGeer cautioned that because the true severity of the outbreak isn’t yet known, it’s impossible to predict what the impact of that spread would be, though she noted it would likely pose significant challenges to health care facilities.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pessimistic assessment comes from both researchers studying the dynamics of the outbreak — the rate at which cases are rising in and emerging from China — and infectious diseases experts who are parsing the first published studies describing cases to see if public health tools such as isolation and quarantine could as effective in this outbreak as they were in the 2003 SARS epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the warnings come as the United States reported over the weekend finding three more cases, the country’s third, fourth, and fifth. Two were diagnosed in California. One is a traveler from Wuhan, where the outbreak is believed to have started, who was diagnosed in Orange County. The other is someone who visited Wuhan who was diagnosed in Los Angeles County. The fifth case was diagnosed in Arizona and is a student at Arizona State University; the person had also traveled to Wuhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confirmed infections within China climbed to nearly 2,750 and the death toll rose to 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China’s health minister, Ma Xiaowei, warned Sunday that the virus seems to be becoming more transmissible and the country — which has taken unprecedentedly draconian steps to control the virus — was entering a “crucial stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China’s actions — which include shutting off flights and trains from some affected cities and effectively putting tens of millions of people into quarantine — may not be enough to stop the virus, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the enormous and admirable efforts in China and around the world, we need to plan for the possibility containment of this epidemic isn’t possible,” said Neil Ferguson, an infectious diseases epidemiology at Imperial College London who has issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of modeling studies\u003c/a> on the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may be as many as 100,000 cases already in China, Ferguson \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-could-infect-100000-globally-experts-warn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told The Guardian newspaper\u003c/a> on Sunday, adding the model suggests the number could be between 30,000 and 200,000 cases. “Almost certainly many tens of thousands of people are infected,” he told the British newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday it is donating $10 million to the response to the virus. Half the money will be given to Chinese groups to help them in containment efforts. The other half will be given to the African Center for Disease Control to fund its efforts to help African countries prepare to have to cope with the new infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Sunday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1221479565043912705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a> that he is traveling to Beijing to meet with Chinese authorities to offer support and to learn more about the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WHO so far has not declared the outbreak a global health emergency, though Tedros, as he is know, has said the spread of the new virus is a crisis for China and a risk to countries beyond it. The WHO declined to label the outbreak a global health emergency of international concern on the advice of a panel of experts who met Wednesday and Thursday, though those experts were split on whether a PHEIC should be declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This outbreak is caused by a virus — \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/23/its-been-sequenced-its-spread-across-borders-now-the-new-pneumonia-causing-virus-needs-a-name/\">currently known as 2019-nCoV\u003c/a> — that belongs to the same family as the viruses that caused the SARS outbreak and which cause sporadic flare-ups of cases of MERS on the Arabian Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SARS virus caused an explosive outbreak in late 2002 and early 2003, infecting more than 8,000 people around the globe and killing nearly 800 before it was contained. MERS has never caused a sustain global outbreak, though a number of large hospital-based outbreaks — including one in South Korea sparked by a businessman who contracted the virus in the Middle East — have been recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the luckiest breaks the world got with the SARS outbreak was the fact that the virus did not transmit before people developed symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some diseases, like influenza and measles, people who are infected but who are not yet feeling sick — people who are still going to work or school, taking public transit, shopping in malls, or going to movies — can pass the viruses to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tools like quarantine and isolation — which were key to controlling SARS — are unlikely stop spread of a virus that can transmit during the period from infection to symptoms, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency knows transmission of the virus within the United States may be on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re leaning far forward. And we have been every step of the way with an aggressive stance to everything we can do in the U.S.,” she told STAT. “And yet those of us who have been around long enough know that everything we do might not be enough to stop this from spreading in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, at least 14 countries and territories outside of mainland China have reported nearly 60 cases. There have been no reports yet of unchecked spreading from those imported cases to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In hours where I’m feeling optimistic I think about the fact that none of the other countries, including the U.S., have seen significant sustained chains of transmission,” Messonnier said. “But that doesn’t mean that it’s not coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also appears that the incubation time — the time from infection to the development of symptoms — may be a bit shorter than that of SARS, McGeer said, citing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30154-9/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper published Friday\u003c/a> that described transmission within a family in Hong Kong. With SARS, most people developed symptoms about four or five days after infection, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short incubation period gives health authorities less time to track down and quarantine people who have been exposed to the virus and who are en route to becoming infectious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists who have been studying the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/24/dna-sleuths-read-coronavirus-genome-tracing-origins-and-mutations/\">genetic sequences\u003c/a> of viruses from China and a few other of the countries that have recorded cases have calculated what is known as the reproductive rate of this outbreak — the number of people, on average, that each case will infect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outbreak with a reproductive number of below 1 will peter out. But a number of groups have calculated a reproductive rate for this current outbreak — known by the term R-naught or R0 — in the range of 2 to 3 or beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trevor Bedford, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, suggested the estimates are sobering and point to continued spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not contained shortly, I think we are looking at a pandemic,” Bedford said, though he cautioned that it’s impossible to know at this point how severe that type of event would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/T_Inglesby/status/1221434570714669056?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urged countries\u003c/a> to start planning to deal with global spread of the new virus. Such plans need to include far more aggressive efforts to develop a vaccine than have already been announced, he suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not making a prediction that it’s going to happen,” Inglesby said, though he noted the mathematical modeling, the statements from Chinese authorities, and the sharply rising infection numbers make a case for this possible outcome. “I think just based on those pieces of limited information, it’s important for us to begin some planning around the possibility that this won’t be contained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/26/containing-new-coronavirus-may-not-be-feasible-experts-say/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b4213b1d3b-MR_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-b4213b1d3b-149648249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/\">STAT\u003c/a>, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And we have been every step of the way with an aggressive stance to everything we can do in the U.S.,” she told STAT. “And yet those of us who have been around long enough know that everything we do might not be enough to stop this from spreading in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, at least 14 countries and territories outside of mainland China have reported nearly 60 cases. There have been no reports yet of unchecked spreading from those imported cases to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In hours where I’m feeling optimistic I think about the fact that none of the other countries, including the U.S., have seen significant sustained chains of transmission,” Messonnier said. “But that doesn’t mean that it’s not coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also appears that the incubation time — the time from infection to the development of symptoms — may be a bit shorter than that of SARS, McGeer said, citing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30154-9/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper published Friday\u003c/a> that described transmission within a family in Hong Kong. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous analyses of patients who contracted \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/22/the-basics-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-virus-spreading-in-china/\" rel=\"\">a novel coronavirus that has broken out in China\u003c/a> and spread to other countries. Among their discoveries: The virus does not only affect people with other, underlying health conditions, and people who are not showing symptoms can still be carrying the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620301835.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one study\u003c/a>, researchers analyzed data from the first 41 patients who were admitted to hospitals with confirmed cases of the infection in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak is believed to have originated last month. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new strain of coronavirus — named 2019-nCoV — has been discovered in China. Viruses in the coronavirus category can cause fever, breathing difficulties, pneumonia and diarrhea. Some are potentially fatal. Others can cause the relatively mild common cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a look at the most well-known coronaviruses: what they have in common and how they differ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1956072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/coronavirus-compared.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/coronavirus-compared.jpg 812w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/coronavirus-compared-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/coronavirus-compared-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/coronavirus-compared-768x591.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/coronavirus-20200121?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “corona” is Latin for crown. Under a microscope, these viruses look like a circle with spikes ending in little blobs coming off the surface. Treatment for the more severe coronaviruses typically consists of rest, quarantine and/or hospitalization. There are no approved vaccines at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are many unknowns about what is informally referred to as “Wuhan coronavirus,” for the city where cases were first diagnosed. Among the questions being investigated: how the disease is transmitted and how lethal it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever a virus enters the human population from animals, we don’t know its full potential at that time,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/heymann.david\">David Heymann\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And different viruses in this category have different impacts. “SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] killed people of all ages. It was a very vicious and very violent virus infection,” says Heymann. “MERS [Middle East respiratory syndrome], however, doesn’t appear to be so virulent in younger people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Does+Wuhan+Coronavirus+Compare+With+MERS%2C+SARS+And+The+Common+Cold%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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