ABOVE: The University of California, Davis Medical Center
WIKIMEDIA, COOLCAESAR
The US Centers for Disease Control announced yesterday (February 26) that an infection with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed “in a person who reportedly did not have relevant travel history or exposure to another known patient with COVID-19,” making it the first suspected US case of what is known as community transmission. Fifty-nine other cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the US, but all of them were linked to recent travel to affected areas abroad, including a cruise ship that experienced an outbreak, the Associated Press notes.
“The thing that would immediately make all of us uneasy is if this person has no direct contact with someone who comes from an affected country,” William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, tells The New York Times. “That would suggest there are other undetected cases out there, and we ...
