Latest American infected with novel coronavirus could be 1st case of community spread on US soil

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NEW: Latest patient being treated for novel coronavirus in the U.S. is being investigated by health officials as possibly the first case of community spread on American soil.

News headlines today: Feb. 26, 2020being treated for the novel coronavirus in the United States is being investigated by health officials as possibly the first case of community spread on American soil.

"We have been anticipating the potential for such a case in the U.S.," Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a statement Wednesday night,"and given our close familial, social and business relationships with China, it is not unexpected that the first case in the U.S. would be in California.

People wear surgical masks as they walk along Chinatown's Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 26, 2020. San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a local state of emergency on Feb. 25 to get prepared in case of a possible coronavirus outbreak. The CDC said it would continue to investigate the source of the infection. It's"possible" that the individual"may have been exposed to a returned traveler who was infected," an agency official said in a statement Wednesday.The new coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan back in December and has since spread overseas to at least 37 other countries, with South Korea, Italy and Iran seeing recent surges in case numbers.

 

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Wouldn’t it be something if the origin was from a fishing vessel that fished off Antarctica and the virus was frozen in the ice but was released from global warming.

Good thing Trump cleaned the swamp by gutting the CDC and firing any experts in his administration who dared challenge his opinions on anything.

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