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Initial Public Health Response and Interim Clinical Guidance for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak — United States, December 31, 2019–February 4, 2020

2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 69; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15585/mmwr.mm6905e1

1545-861X

Anita Patel, Daniel B. Jernigan, Fatuma Abdirizak, Glen R. Abedi, Sharad Aggarwal, Denise Albina, Elizabeth S. Allen, Lauren M. Andersen, Jade Anderson, Megan Anderson, Tara C. Anderson, Kayla N. Anderson, Ana C. Bardossy, Vaughn Barry, Karlyn D. Beer, Michael Bell, Sherri Berger, Joseph Bertulfo, Holly M. Biggs, Jennifer Bornemann, Josh Bornstein, Willie Bower, Joseph S. Bresee, Clive Brown, Alicia Budd, Jennifer Buigut, S. Bürke, Rachel M. Burke, Erin Burns, Jay C. Butler, Russell Cantrell, Cristina V. Cardemil, Jordan Cates, Marty Cetron, Kevin Chatham‐Stephens, Kevin Chatham-Stevens, Nora Chea, Bryan Christensen, Victoria Chu, Kevin R. Clarke, Angela A. Cleveland, Nicole J. Cohen, Max Cohen, Amanda Cohn, Jennifer Collins, Rebecca M. Dahl, W. Randolph Daley, Vishal Dasari, Elizabeth Davlantes, Patrick Dawson, Lisa Delaney, Matthew Donahue, Chad Dowell, Jonathan Dyal, William Christopher Edens, Rachel B. Eidex, Lauren Epstein, Mary E. Evans, Ryan Fagan, Kevin Farris, Leora R. Feldstein, LeAnne M. Fox, Mark Frank, Brandi Freeman, Alicia M. Fry, James A. Fuller, Romeo R. Galang, Sue Gerber, Runa H. Gokhale, S. Goldstein, Sue Gorman, William J. Gregg, William Greim, Steven Grube, Aron J. Hall, Amber Haynes, Sherrasa Hill, Jennifer Hornsby‐Myers, Jennifer C. Hunter, Christopher Ionta, Cheryl Isenhour, Max W. Jacobs, Kara Jacobs Slifka, Daniel B. Jernigan, Michael A. Jhung, Jamie Jones-Wormley, Anita Kambhampati, Shifaq Kamili, Pamela Kennedy, Charlotte Kent, Marie E. Killerby, Lindsay Kim, Hannah L. Kirking, Lisa M. Koonin, Ram Koppaka, Christine Kosmos, David T. Kuhar, Wendi Kuhnert-Tallman, Stephanie Kujawski, Archana Kumar, Alexander Landon, Leslie Lee, Jessica Leung, Stephen Lindstrom, Ruth Link‐Gelles, Joana Y Lively, Xiaoyan Lu, Brian Lynch, Lakshmi Malapati, Samantha Mandel, Brian J. Manns, Nina Marano, Mariel Marlow, Barbara J. Marston, Nancy McClung, Liz McClure, Emily G. McDonald, Oliva McGovern, Nancy Messonnier, Claire Midgley, Danielle Moulia, Janna Murray, Kate C. Noelte, Michelle Noonan-Smith, Kristen Nordlund, Emily Norton, Sara E. Oliver, Mark A. Pallansch, Umesh D. Parashar, Anita Patel, Manisha Patel, Kristen Pettrone, Taran Pierce, Harald Pietz, Satish K. Pillai, Lewis J. Radonovich, Sarah Reagan-Steiner, Amy Reel, Heather E. Reese, Brian Rha, Philip Ricks, Melissa A. Rolfes, Shahrokh Roohi, Lauren Roper, Lisa D. Rotz, Janell Routh, Senthil Kumar K. Sakthivel, Luisa Sarmiento, Jessica Schindelar, Eileen Schneider, Anne Schuchat, Sarah Scott, Varun Shetty, Caitlin Shockey, Jill Shugart, Mark Stenger, Matthew J. Stuckey, Brittany Sunshine, Tamara Sykes, Jonathan Trapp, Timothy M. Uyeki, Grace M. Vahey, Amy L. Valderrama, Julie Villanueva, Tunicia Walker, Megan Wallace, Lijuan Wang, John T. Watson, Angie Weber, Cindy M. Weinbaum, William C. Weldon, Caroline Westnedge, Brett Whitaker, Michael Whitaker, Alcia Williams, Holly Ann Williams, Ian Willams, Karen K. Wong, Amy Xie, Anna Yousef,

COVID-19 epidemiological studies

On December 31, 2019, Chinese health officials reported a cluster of cases of acute respiratory illness in persons associated with the Hunan seafood and animal market in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, in central China. On January 7, 2020, Chinese health officials confirmed that a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was associated with this initial cluster (1). As of February 4, 2020, a total of 20,471 confirmed cases, including 2,788 (13.6%) with severe illness,* and 425 deaths (2.1%) had been reported by the National Health Commission of China (2). Cases have also been reported in 26 locations outside of mainland China, including documentation of some person-to-person transmission and one death (2). As of February 4, 11 cases had been reported in the United States. On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General declared that the 2019-nCoV outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.