{"id":15422,"date":"2020-03-14T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2020-03-14T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T05:08:15","slug":"cdc-update-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/14\/cdc-update-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC update on Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"U.S.Atlanta, GA<\/strong> – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a total of 1,629 cases of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in the United States. There have been 41 deaths related to the virus in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, there are now 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).<\/p>\n

CDC is responding to an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The outbreak first started in Wuhan, China, but cases have been identified in a growing number of other locations internationally<\/a>, including the United States.<\/p>\n

\"Coronavirus.\"<\/a>

Coronavirus.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In addition to CDC, many public health laboratories are now testing for the virus that causes COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released interim infection prevention and control recommendations for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in healthcare settings (full guidance available here).<\/p>\n

Current evidence suggests that person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 happens during close exposure to an infected person, primarily via respiratory droplets produced when the infected person coughs or sneezes.<\/p>\n

In their new guidance, CDC highlights that facemasks are an acceptable alternative for clinical care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients, especially when supply chains are limited. Current World Health Organization guidance recommends facemask, gown, gloves and eye protection for healthcare workers providing direct care to COVID-19 patients (for non- aerosol-generating procedures).<\/p>\n

COVID-19 Now a Pandemic<\/h3>\n

A pandemic is a global outbreak of disease. Pandemics happen when a new virus emerges to infect people and can spread between people sustainably. Because there is little to no pre-existing immunity against the new virus, it spreads worldwide.<\/p>\n

The virus that causes COVID-19 is infecting people and spreading easily from person-to-person. Cases have been detected in most countries worldwide and community spread is being detected in a growing number of countries. On March 11, the COVID-19 outbreak was characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO)external icon<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the first pandemic known to be caused by the emergence of a new coronavirus. In the past century, there have been four pandemics caused by the emergence of novel influenza viruses. As a result, most research and guidance around pandemics is specific to influenza, but the same premises can be applied to the current COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

[320left]Pandemics of respiratory disease follow a certain progression outlined in a \u201cPandemic Intervals Framework<\/a>.\u201d Pandemics begin with an investigation phase, followed by recognition, initiation, and acceleration phases. The peak of illnesses occurs at the end of the acceleration phase, which is followed by a deceleration phase, during which there is a decrease in illnesses.<\/p>\n

Different countries can be in different phases of the pandemic at any point in time and different parts of the same country can also be in different phases of a pandemic.<\/p>\n

There are ongoing investigations to learn more. This is a rapidly evolving situation and information will be updated as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta, GA – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a total of 1,629 cases of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in the United States. There have been 41 deaths related to the virus in the U.S. In Tennessee, there are now 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). CDC is responding to an outbreak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[4671,1297,566,12675,12712,107,12734,261,2729,2038,7228,3723,1631,12727],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-atlanta-ga","tag-cdc","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-pandemic","tag-tennessee","tag-u-s-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-united-states","tag-virus","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization","tag-wuhan-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}