Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus --- United States, January 2020

Published on February 13, 2020

In December 2019, a cluster of cases of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan City in central China's Hubei Province. Genetic sequencing of isolates obtained from patients with pneumonia identified a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as the etiology (1).

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