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Public health officials say spread of coronavirus in the US is inevitable
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A top U.S. public health official has called the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. inevitable, while President Trump called the situation “very well under control.”
“Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in the United States,” Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said Tuesday. “It’s not a question of if this will happen, but when this will happen.”
Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, speaking at a Health and Human Services press conference Tuesday said, “It’s likely this virus will cause a pandemic,” and the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the world is “teetering very, very close” to a pandemic.
So far, over 80,000 people around the world have been infected with the virus and more than 2,700 have died, mostly in China. There are at least 53 cases in the United States and hundreds of others spread across Asia, the Middle East and Europe, with cases surging to 280 in Italy and nearly 1,000 in South Korea.
“People are concerned about this situation and rightfully so,” Messonnier said. “I was having breakfast with my family this morning and I told my children that while I didn’t think they were at risk right now, we as a family need to prepare for the significant risk.”
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