UPDATE (02/14/2020 ► 6:00am): The United States' 15th case of novel coronavirus COVID-19 has been confirmed in San Antonio, Texas, according to KENS 5 CBS. That patient was one of the passengers on the U.S. State Department flights out of China and is now currently under quarantine at the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Base San Antonio — Lackland Air Force Base.
UPDATE (02/13/2020 ► 7:40am): The United States' 13th and 14th cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 have been confirmed in San Diego County, California, according to NBC News and KNSD NBC 7 San Diego. The two patients are unrelated and were on separate flights the U.S. State Department organized to evacuate U.S. citizens and consular officials (people work at embassies and consulates) out of China because of the coronavirus outbreak. The flights were from Wuhan to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, a military base where the CDC has issued a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all the evacuees.
UPDATE (02/11/2020 ► 12:00pm): The World Health Organization has renamed the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, which is also a respiratory disease, as COVID-19 after working with the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to "prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing". They cited the organizations' shared guidelines that were set in 2015 to help name diseases.
UPDATE (02/08/2020 ► 10:00am): There has now been the first American death from the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in China. According to NBC News, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing has only confirmed that the patient was a 60-year-old U.S. citizen who was being treated at Jinyintian Hospital in Wuhan. This is now the third death of a person outside mainland China, one each in the Philippines and the Hong Kong special administrative region of China.
UPDATE (02/05/2020 ► 7:30pm): There are now 12 total cases of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States, with the most recent case being confirmed in Wisconsin — the state's first. According to WISN 12 ABC, the state Department of Health Services is working with the University of Wisconsin Health System to treat an undisclosed patient who traveled to Beijing, China for Lunar New Year and was around people from Wuhan showing coronavirus-like symptoms.
UPDATE (02/03/2020 ► 7:30am): There are now 11 total cases of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States, with all of those most recent cases being confirmed in California. According to KNTV / NBC Bay Area, there is now a second case in Santa Clara County as well as the first two cases in San Benito County.
UPDATE (02/01/2020 ► 11:00pm): There has now been the first death from novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV outside of China. According to CNN Philippines, the Philippine Department of Health has reported the death of the nation's second confirmed case, a 44-year-old man, a Chinese national, whose partner was the first confirmed patient.
UPDATE (02/01/2020 ► 1:40pm): There are now eight confirmed cases of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States. According to WCVB-TV 5 ABC, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed its first case in the state and the entire east coast on Saturday afternoon. The first confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV is now Chicago's second and the U.S.' sixth, while Santa Clara, California, the home of 2019-2020 NFL NFC champions, the San Francisco 49ers, is also now home to the seventh case. This comes as the World Health Organization has made it a Global Health Emergency, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services made it a Public Health Emergency, and the U.S. State Department has issued a Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory for all of China.
UPDATE (01/27/2020 ► 6:45am): There are now five confirmed cases of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States. The fourth case, which is the second in California, is in Los Angeles County while the fifth case is in Arizona. The CDC will be updating the U.S. confirmed case count three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) starting this morning.
UPDATE (01/26/2020 ► 10:00am): There is now a third confirmed case of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States, in Orange County, California, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. Also, according to Deustche Welle, the outbreak has now reached Europe with French authorities confirming three cases; two people recently traveled to Wuhan, while the other case is a close relative of one of those travelers.
UPDATE (01/24/2020): The second case of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the United States has been confirmed in Chicago, according to the CDC, WMAQ NBC 5 Chicago, and NBC News. State of Illinois public health officials as well as those here in our local area are still pushing the message that the risk for getting infected is low. The first case was found in Washington State on Tuesday, January 21.
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