• Epidemic response or pandemic response is when outbreak response are used within a disease outbreak that has been classified as an epidemic or pandemic. (wikipedia.org)
  • The suppression strategy, which include stringent population-wide social distancing, home isolation of cases and household quarantine, was undertaken by China during the COVID-19 pandemic where entire cities were placed under lockdown, but such strategy carries with it considerable social and economic costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary. (wikipedia.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has only further emphasized the importance of chronic disease prevention and care - especially because many chronic conditions increase the severity of COVID-19 outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite this relationship between chronic disease and COVID-19 and their related disparities, the pandemic has resulted in a decreased use of health services for emergencies and for ongoing preventive and routine health care. (cdc.gov)
  • Since the outbreak of the pandemic, many individuals of Asian descent have reported that they have been subjected to critical stereotypes, including blame for the virus itself. (sgrlaw.com)
  • On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic, with numerous countries-including China, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Italy, Slovakia and the U.S.-announcing travel restrictions and social distancing measures. (bdo.com)
  • Beyond the immense impacts the outbreak is having on public health, the pandemic directly impacts economic activity and poses unique challenges to businesses across industries because of its potentially compounding and unpredictable consequences. (bdo.com)
  • From travel restrictions to social distancing, what is the best way to stop a pandemic? (gavi.org)
  • With the COVID-19 outbreak now officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, more countries are stepping up efforts to bring it under control. (gavi.org)
  • During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, American Samoa completely escaped the disease through a mix of strict quarantine for travelers and travel bans while then-Western Samoa did not impose similar measures and suffered many deaths from influenza. (gavi.org)
  • They will also set out the impact of additional measures to protect the workers and reduce infection risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Hospitals are bracing for a 'storm' of coronavirus cases as the pandemic continues, in part because of a fear people will lower their guard and relax their social distancing measures. (cbc.ca)
  • With this pandemic, we all have responsibility to our friends and neighbors to use social distancing to interrupt transmission of COVID-19. (itsthesway.com)
  • Anthony Fauci, a prominent member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force team and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, addressed a Senate committee on Tuesday about coronavirus and several states' plans to "reopen" their economies in the midst of a pandemic, delivering to lawmakers a dire warning about the consequences of doing so. (truthout.org)
  • The study finds that when reporting concrete facts, Western media acknowledged the effectiveness of the anti-pandemic measures taken by Eastern Asian countries and the social cohesion people in such countries exhibited. (europeanproceedings.com)
  • House Democrats unveiled a proposal yesterday to bolster the country's infrastructure to cushion the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, in what would be "phase four" of the congressional response to the outbreak. (justsecurity.org)
  • Just as the economic and social chaos the pandemic has provoked was prepared in the last period, capitalism has long since laid the basis for a public health disaster on this scale. (socialist.net)
  • Very early on it became clear that social distancing was going to become necessary for this pandemic," said Weber, chief medical officer and an infectious diseases doctor. (uchicago.edu)
  • There is evidence they delay the entry of pandemic diseases , and they have sometimes prevented the spread of pandemics to islands . (otago.ac.nz)
  • With 170 million animals, the country has a high animal density as well (~4000 a/km 2 ), leading to areas with bad air quality 2 and relatively high risk of zoonosis, 3 important factors in the COVID-19 pandemic. (ndu.edu)
  • Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings - Social Distancing Measures. (who.int)
  • Early in the pandemic (April 3, 2020), the CDC issued a recommendation that the general public, even those without symptoms, should wear face coverings in public settings where social-distancing measures were difficult to maintain to abate the spread of COVID-19. (medscape.com)
  • The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments, other U.S. government departments and agencies, the private sector, and international partners have engaged in real-time public health response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). (cdc.gov)
  • COVID-19: Mental Health Pros Come to the Aid of Frontline Comrades Psychologists, psychotherapists, and social workers in the US and Canada have formed a network to offer free psychotherapy sessions to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • Mathematical modelling of infectious disease Anderson RM, Heesterbeek H, Klinkenberg D, Hollingsworth TD (March 2020). (wikipedia.org)
  • Under Georgia's Executive Order issued on April 20, 2020, for instance, Governor Kemp ordered that all medical practices and other healthcare related businesses that have elected to cease operations should begin treating patients as soon as practicable in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") Guidelines. (sgrlaw.com)
  • If there is evidence of a COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., employers should plan to be able to respond in a flexible way to varying levels of severity and be prepared to refine their business response plans as needed," wrote the CDC on its Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on February 27, 2020. (fruitguys.com)
  • 2020). This is a respiratory disease of Chinese origin and caused by the new coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus Syndrome 2 (SARS-Cov-2), which causes mild to severe physiological symptoms (Sohrabi et al. (bvsalud.org)
  • For the first time since the outbreak began, in China there have been no new confirmed cases caused by local transmission reported for five consecutive days up to 23 March 2020. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • In response to the fast-growing epidemic, China imposed strict social distancing in Wuhan on 23 January 2020 followed closely by similar measures in other provinces. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • On January 30, 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency. (medscape.com)
  • Although isolation facilities obviate the capacity constraints of hospital isolation, our experience highlights the potential for secondary outbreaks, which are disruptive and costly to investigate and control. (cdc.gov)
  • Community treatment centers for isolation of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients with coronavirus disease, South Korea. (cdc.gov)
  • Some measures such as isolation are also useful in preventing an outbreak from occurring in the first place. (wikipedia.org)
  • As patients in home care as well as other people in the same household can leave isolation to visit clinics or for other essential purposes, that also raises the risk of exposure, said Dr. Jung Ki-suck, a respiratory disease specialist and former Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief. (koreaherald.com)
  • If patients are allowed to leave their place of isolation while still infectious, people whom they may come across are exposed to risk of infection. (koreaherald.com)
  • COVID-19 may also contribute to social isolation and mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression (6). (cdc.gov)
  • This fact sheet by SAMHSA explains social distancing, quarantine, and isolation in the event of an infectious disease outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • Such interventions include anything from early detection and travel restrictions, to isolation, social distancing and reducing human-to-human contact. (gavi.org)
  • Home-isolation and lockdown are necessary for preventing infectious disease transmission, with many of our basic needs provided by platform companies and delivery workers. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Added family stresses related to the COVID-19 crisis - including job loss, isolation, excessive confinement, and anxieties over health and finances - heighten the risk of violence in the home, including both between partners and by caregivers against children. (hrw.org)
  • Number of family members, living status of spouse, emotional attachment to family members, conflict in family, loneliness, social isolation, marginal friendship ties, functional status, physical exercise, active complains and diastolic BP were independent predictors of depression in older adults. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Early identification of depression in older adults using GDS-15 and incorporation of social isolation and functionality assessment routinely by healthcare providers for all older adults attending the outpatient departments is the need of the hour. (bvsalud.org)
  • Population-wide social distancing plus other interventions (eg, home self-isolation, school and business closures) are strongly advised. (medscape.com)
  • Prevention is by vaccination and infection control precautions (eg, face masks, handwashing, social distancing, isolation of infected individuals). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • vaccinations (for both children and adults) are essential services that should be given on time, and in-person nonurgent care (such as screenings) should be considered when risk of infection is low, based on local COVID-19 transmission rates, and when appropriate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended mitigation strategies are in place. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is monitoring both influenza (flu) season and the Coronavirus disease . (fruitguys.com)
  • Early on, there was a problem in test kits distributed to labs by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which slowed efforts to make testing more widely available. (kcur.org)
  • The NC State Laboratory of Public Health (NCSLPH) is using the test kit developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (itsthesway.com)
  • But the principal deputy director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anne Schuchat, warned in an interview that relenting on social distancing risks outbreaks in new parts of the country. (bgov.com)
  • In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control has advised colleges and universities to plan for the potential impact on instruction related to COVID-19 cases occurring in our community. (uwm.edu)
  • I'm Commander Ibad Khan and I'm representing the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, COCA, with the Emergency Risk Communication Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Dirlikov is an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division for Global HIV and Tuberculosis. (who.int)
  • For current information on the number of cases and fatalities, see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): COVID Data Tracker and the WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard . (msdmanuals.com)
  • Courtesy of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (medscape.com)
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  • Outbreak response includes aspects of general disease control such as maintaining adequate hygiene, but may also include responses that extend beyond traditional healthcare settings and are unique to an outbreak, such as physical distancing, contact tracing, mapping of disease clusters, or quarantine. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is especially true during a global health emergency in which the first line of defense is public adherence to health directives, including to quarantine, observe social distancing, wear masks, and, eventually, receive a vaccine. (brookings.edu)
  • Enforcing restrictions on travellers to prevent the spread of infectious disease dates back hundreds of years and in fact has its roots in origins of the word quarantine-stemming from the Italian for "forty", the number of days ships had to wait before entering a port when suspected of carrying contagious disease. (gavi.org)
  • The increase in testing comes as the outbreak enters a critical stage, said Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (kcur.org)
  • Parts of the U.S. might be able to relent on social distancing practices that have crippled the economy as the country battles the coronavirus outbreak, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview conducted by NBA star Steph Curry on Instagram . (bgov.com)
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told WMAL on Tuesday that Trump has always heeded his recommendations. (southernstandard.com)
  • and say, well, maybe we've gone a little bit too far," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, at a Monday White House press conference. (vox.com)
  • How you respond to the outbreak can depend on your background, the things that make you different from other people, and the community you live in. (cdc.gov)
  • To respond to the outbreak in a timely manner, it is vital that research responses to the outbreak focusing on abovementioned subjects are published in the public domain in a timely manner. (mdpi.com)
  • That's one of the reasons that Dr. George Rutherford, head of the division of infectious disease and epidemiology at UCSF, tells the Chron in a ranking of activity hazard levels, "going out for dinner and a drink" is one of the riskiest things one can do. (eater.com)
  • The Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health PhD programme was established at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, and is led by directors Keith Matthews, Professor of Parasite Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, and Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Usher Institute. (ed.ac.uk)
  • It provides broad, interdisciplinary training in all aspects of infectious disease research, from immunology to epidemiology, phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Association of Public Health Interventions with the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China. (who.int)
  • The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be stressful for people. (cdc.gov)
  • Illness caused by SARS-CoV-2 was termed COVID-19 by the WHO, the acronym derived from "coronavirus disease 2019. (medscape.com)
  • Outbreak response is normally conducted by teams, which include infection control physicians, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists and a number of other specialties. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the advent of an infectious disease outbreak, epidemiologists and public health officials quickly try to forecast deaths and infections using complex computer models. (theconversation.com)
  • That decision is daunting even for infectious disease experts and epidemiologists. (time.com)
  • Also, in the midst of a novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak, we recognize the value and impact researchers at our institution may have in advancing the knowledge and science around this emerging viral pathogen. (uwm.edu)
  • This story is part of Science Friday's coverage on the novel coronavirus, the agent of the disease COVID-19. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Public health o cials in China identify a novel coronavirus as the causative agent of the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • WHO begins using the phrase "2019 Novel Coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" to refer to disease causing the outbreak in Wuhan, China. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC publishes information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus on its website. (cdc.gov)
  • China reports the rst death from the novel coronavirus and publishes a draft genome of the newly discovered coronavirus suspected of causing the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC reports the rst laboratory-con rmed case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. from samples taken on January 18 in Washington state and on the same day activates its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to respond to the emerging outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • The outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • formerly called 2019-nCoV), which was first identified amid an outbreak of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. (medscape.com)
  • The reason why we try to use data outside of Hubei is because, in Wuhan, things happened so quickly in the beginning, we didn't know what the causes of the disease was. (cdc.gov)
  • Containment may be undertaken in the early stages of the outbreak, including contact tracing and isolating infected individuals to stop the disease from being spread to the rest of the population, other public health interventions on infection control, and therapeutic countermeasures such as vaccinations which may be effective if available. (wikipedia.org)
  • But what we do know is that with these kinds of outbreaks, especially ones in which an infectious disease can spread in a population that does not have immunity to that disease, the speed of the response is paramount, and when there no cure or vaccine available, non-pharmaceutical interventions play an even more critical role. (gavi.org)
  • Social-distancing interventions have also impacted economic productivity in China, and the ability of the Chinese economy to resume without restarting the epidemic is not yet clear. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The CDC advised that nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are the most important response strategy for delaying viral spread and reducing disease impact. (medscape.com)
  • An Academic Preparedness subteam, with representation from Academic Affairs, CETL, UITS, Classroom Technology, the Registrar's Office, and our branch campuses, has developed an academic continuity plan that would guide our actions if social distancing measures are necessitated by a local COVID-19 outbreak. (uwm.edu)
  • But with a brand new virus like the one that causes COVID-19, these estimates are complicated by a dearth of credible information on symptoms, contagion and those who are most at risk. (theconversation.com)
  • Our Goldenson Center COVID-19 model uses a hypothetical 1,000-person population and calculates outcomes using three types of information: the initial number of infections, social distancing, and personal protection measures that include wearing masks, frequent hand-washing and staying quarantined if exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. (theconversation.com)
  • COVID-19 is a disease caused by an infectious outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. (uantwerpen.be)
  • Inmates are waiting to be vaccinated even though the two largest COVID outbreaks in the state have been at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, and the York County Jail in Alfred. (pressherald.com)
  • For example, cancer, heart conditions, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, in addition to being among the top 10 causes of death in the United States, are also established risk factors for severe illness from COVID-19 (4). (cdc.gov)
  • Additional chronic conditions or risk factors such as obesity and smoking also increase the severity of COVID-19 outcomes (4). (cdc.gov)
  • Finally, chronic diseases, risk factors for chronic disease, and COVID-19 all tend to disproportionately affect people of lower socioeconomic status and certain racial and ethnic minority populations. (cdc.gov)
  • As a result, African American, Hispanic or Latino people, and American Indian and Alaska Native people are all at higher risk than non-Hispanic White people of getting sick, being hospitalized, or dying of COVID-19 (4). (cdc.gov)
  • The extent to which control of chronic disease might mitigate a person's COVID-19 risk is currently unknown, but we do know that appropriate management of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and cancer saves lives. (cdc.gov)
  • Speaking with the SF Chronicle , UCSF School of Medicine infectious disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says that its harder to transmit the new coronavirus (COVID-19) outdoors than in, so "If you want to meet people, meet them outside. (eater.com)
  • This paper uses geospatial analyses to create a COVID Vulnerability Mapping Dashboard that examines and displays social vulnerability indices at the national and subnational levels in Indonesia. (worldbank.org)
  • What is the local trend in COVID cases The dashboard prototype presented herein was developed and used to direct attention to geographic areas where risks are expected to be greatest. (worldbank.org)
  • The combination of three prominent respiratory viruses this winter - influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19), and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - is raising the risk for older and at-risk adults. (gsk.com)
  • Over half of respondents believe they're at risk of infection, about 70% believing an immediate family member could become ill from COVID-19. (davidicke.com)
  • No one knows the severity or duration of COVID-19 outbreaks. (davidicke.com)
  • For the general American public, such as workers in non-healthcare settings and where it is unlikely that work tasks create an increased risk of exposures to COVID-19, the immediate health risk from COVID-19 is considered low. (fruitguys.com)
  • Do not make risk determinations based on race or country of origin, but follow CDC guidance for how to conduct a risk assessment , and make sure to maintain the confidentiality of employees with confirmed COVID-19. (fruitguys.com)
  • He is now is now working with others in Epigroup who are currently modelling the impact of different social distancing measures (SDMs) on the transmission dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak. (ed.ac.uk)
  • More efforts to support the physical and mental health of staff is also required, with three‑quarters of countries recognising COVID‑19 as an occupational disease. (oecd.org)
  • COVID‑19 has disproportionately hit older people who are at higher risk of developing severe disease and death due to COVID‑19 because of being frail and having underlying medical conditions. (oecd.org)
  • And in Switzerland, authorities have abandoned efforts to keep a close count on the number of COVID-19 cases, and instead are now focusing on protecting those most at risk and trying to ease the burden on healthcare systems. (gavi.org)
  • Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver has been particularly hard hit by a major outbreak of COVID-19. (cbc.ca)
  • Dr. Stephanie Smith, director of infection prevention and control at U of A, said given that it takes up to 14 days for symptoms of COVID-19 to appear, it is too early to tell how much of an effect the physical distancing measures and closures are having in Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • Lisa De Virgilio poses in a protective face mask with the phrase 'andra tutto bene' that means 'everything will be OK', sewn onto it, following an outbreak of COVID-19, in Molfetta, southern Italy, on Wednesday. (cbc.ca)
  • But the plan would make sure a vaccine is ready for patients if Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, comes back next year, Fauci said at a White House press conference. (bgov.com)
  • Considerando las repercusiones de la actual emergencia de salud pública causada por el coronavirus (COVID-19), es necesario entender cómo los niños se ven afectados en su salud mental y cuales son las estrategias que se pueden adoptar frente a esta experiencia. (bvsalud.org)
  • At this point, because of what we know about other respiratory infections and given the paucity of data related to COVID-19 and pregnancy, pregnant women should be considered an at-risk population for strategies focusing on prevention and management of COVID-19. (cdc.gov)
  • Adults in the hospital with COVID-19 and simultaneous influenza are at much greater risk of severe disease and death compared with patients who have COVID-19 alone or with other viruses, new research from the United Kingdom shows. (uspharmacist.com)
  • The stark relationship between COVID-19 and influenza infections and severe outcomes came as a surprise to Calum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine and child health at the University of Liverpool. (uspharmacist.com)
  • We were surprised that the risk of death more than doubled when people were infected by both flu and COVID-19 viruses. (uspharmacist.com)
  • State Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said there are signs of COVID-19 growth statewide - and that Minnesota has overlooked the risk of viral transmission in family and friend gatherings compared with supermarkets and stores where mask-wearing and social distancing have become the norm. (startribune.com)
  • The district had planned to open with a mix of in-person and hybrid classes despite two known COVID-19 cases involving teachers, but then more cases of illnesses emerged this weekend - with some teachers potentially exposing one another to the virus last week during a social gathering. (startribune.com)
  • Twenty-three teachers are quarantined due to exposure risks, though no more positive COVID-19 test results have emerged, said Montevideo Superintendent Luther Heller. (startribune.com)
  • We're in this because public health experts believe social distancing is the best way to prevent a truly horrific crisis: perhaps hundreds of thousands or more if our health care system is overwhelmed with severe Covid-19 cases, people who require ventilators and ICU beds that are now growing limited in supply. (vox.com)
  • Can you identify the communities most at-risk, and how and why both COVID-19 and climate change harms them? (harvard.edu)
  • We don't have direct evidence that climate change is influencing the spread of COVID-19, but we do know that climate change alters how we relate to other species on Earth and that matters to our health and our risk for infections. (harvard.edu)
  • Recent research from Rachel Nethery, Xiauo Wu, Francesca Dominici and other colleagues at Harvard Chan has found that people who live in places with poor air quality are more likely to die from COVID-19 even when accounting for other factors that may influence risk of death such as pre-existing medical conditions, socioeconomic status, and access to healthcare. (harvard.edu)
  • The readiness of Afghanistan's healthcare system to respond rapidly and effectively to the outbreak of COVID-19 remains limited. (who.int)
  • This is an indication that the social distancing measures enacted in China have led to control of COVID-19 in the country. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Dr Kylie Ainslie , co-author of the report from the MRC GIDA and J-IDEA at Imperial College London, explained: "Our report shows initial evidence that, after successful containment of COVID-19 with strict social distancing measures, those strict measures may be relaxed, and economic activities resumed without the recurrence of local transmission. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Dr Han Fu, report co-author, from MRC GIDA and J-IDEA, explained: "By investigating the relationship between within-city movement and the estimated reproduction number, we observed that the relaxation of strict social distancing measures and resumption of economic activities, so far, has not resulted in frequent local transmission of COVID-19 in China. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Fauci echoed sentiments that were made public on Monday evening in an email he sent to The New York Times , where he described what he intended to tell the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday: that easing social distancing measures right now would undoubtedly lead to more Americans being infected with COVID-19. (truthout.org)
  • The risks posed by the COVID-19 crisis to children are enormous," said Jo Becker , children's rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
  • Most people with respiratory infections like colds, the flu, and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will have mild illness and can get better with appropriate home care and without the need to see a provider. (crossingstv.com)
  • However, it was recently announced that the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) received the first candidate for a vaccine against COVID-19. (socialist.net)
  • The three-week elective was aimed at giving third- and fourth-year students-many of whom will soon be caring for COVID-19 patients themselves-an overview of the disease. (uchicago.edu)
  • Such measures were effective in ending the SARS epidemic, but are probably unlikely to do more than delay the more infectious COVID-19. (otago.ac.nz)
  • Parents, school administrators and educators must instead weigh two bad options: isolate children at home or risk them getting and spreading COVID-19 through in-person contact. (time.com)
  • There are ways to limit the spread of the COVID-19, including masks and ventilation, but there is no way to guarantee zero risk of disease transmission in schools. (time.com)
  • As an infectious disease physician who's been dealing with COVID since the very beginning, my kids have learned how to wear a mask properly and even though it's uncomfortable, they do it. (time.com)
  • Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods Before and After Symptom Onset. (who.int)
  • however, COVID-19 continues to be a health risk. (medscape.com)
  • [ 10 ] For high-risk individuals, these recommendations remain to avoid infection from COVID-19 and other infections (eg, RSV, influenza). (medscape.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Because COVID-19 case data do not capture most SARS-CoV-2 infections, the actual risk of severe disease and death per infection is unknown. (cdc.gov)
  • Deep social ties, large and extended families, high- mistrust of key health messages around COVID-19. (who.int)
  • Although social distancing is slowing the spread of COVID-19, it will undoubtedly have negative consequences for mental health and well-being in both the short- and long-term, public health experts say. (medscape.com)
  • COVID-19: Psychiatric Patients May Be Among the Hardest Hit Patients with a serious mental illness are at uniquely high risk of infection during the current COVID-19 emergency and may have a worse prognosis. (medscape.com)
  • COVID-19: Dramatic Changes to Telepsychiatry Rules and Regs In the wake of drastic rule changes governing telemental health services during the COVID-19 outbreak, experts give the most up-to-date information on how to best navigate this ever-changing landscape. (medscape.com)
  • Ruian Ke] SARS coronavirus 2 is the virus that causes coronavirus disease, which is short by COVID-19. (cdc.gov)
  • Sarah Gregory] Ok, so COVID-19 is, is the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • What makes studying a newly emerging and fast spreading disease, such as COVID-19, challenging? (cdc.gov)
  • By the nature of their confinement, prisoners cannot practice social distancing. (pressherald.com)
  • They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. (southernstandard.com)
  • Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die. (vox.com)
  • Practice social distancing , and stay home when you are sick. (vox.com)
  • Deep social ties, large and extended families, high-density living, and religious and cultural beliefs make it almost impossible to practice social distancing and other preventive measures, which have contributed to the rapid transmission of the virus (3). (who.int)
  • This community has been observed to be growing in it almost impossible to practice social distancing and the western province of Herat, which has the second- other preventive measures, which have contributed to highest number of reported cases. (who.int)
  • Less demand for animal meat and more sustainable animal husbandry could decrease emerging infectious disease risk and lower greenhouse gas emissions. (harvard.edu)
  • A key part of managing an infectious disease outbreak is trying to decrease the epidemic peak, known as flattening the epidemic curve. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, let's assume that 100 people are infected out of a population of 1,000, with one in 10 wearing masks, keeping appropriate distance and quarantining if necessary. (theconversation.com)
  • Practicing common-sense social distancing, wearing masks in public and quarantining when necessary is a small inconvenience for a limited amount of time - that will contain the devastation of this virus and ensure that our economy is restored. (theconversation.com)
  • That said, multi-household gatherings without social distancing and other precautions like face masks, even those enjoyed outside, have been linked to outbreaks of the virus. (eater.com)
  • Gardam, the hospital's chief of staff and infectious disease physician, is scrambling to stockpile masks to protect his staff at Humber River Hospital. (cbc.ca)
  • The slew of measures undertaken by the Centre and State governments, including the 21-day lockdown to enforce "social distancing", may not be adequate to shield urban slum dwellers from the disease. (outlookindia.com)
  • Professor Neil Ferguson , Director of J-IDEA at Imperial College London and MRC GIDA explained: "This analysis provides some hope for countries currently in various levels of lockdown that once case numbers are brought to low levels, it might be possible to relax social distancing - provided equal measures to limit the risk of the resurgence of transmission are introduced. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Outbreak response or outbreak control measures are acts which attempt to minimize the spread of or effects of a disease outbreak. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mathematics and mathematicians are often involved in constructing models of disease spread. (wikipedia.org)
  • When it becomes apparent that it is no longer possible to contain the spread of the disease, it will then move on to the mitigation stage, when measures are taken to slow the spread of disease and mitigate its effects on the health care system and society. (wikipedia.org)
  • This model allows the public to input data that demonstrate how changes in safety measures in their communities, including wearing face covering and social distancing, can significantly impact the spread of this virus and mortality rates. (theconversation.com)
  • The disease has spread to at least 32 of the region's 35 countries, sovereign states, and territories. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Social distancing and frequent disinfection of touch-point surfaces are of crucial importance in limiting and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. (abellpestcontrol.com)
  • The first line of defense in preventing the spread and maintaining the health and safety of your staff and public is the implementation of strict disease-prevention protocols that must be followed. (abellpestcontrol.com)
  • Infectious diseases spread exponentially until they run out of susceptible hosts, and in a constant population, the number of susceptible hosts declines inversely to the infection rate. (brokeandbroker.com)
  • As a strategy, restricting travel can be a highly effective means of preventing the spread of disease, particularly for island communities. (gavi.org)
  • So the greatest gains are more likely to come restricting travel internally-in China the decline of the disease coincided with the introduction of travel control measures - and from strategies aimed at preventing the further spread within their borders. (gavi.org)
  • It sets up a potential conflict with medical professionals, including many within his government, who have called for more social restrictions to slow the spread of the virus, not fewer. (southernstandard.com)
  • I think this idea … that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks, you solve the problem and get back to normal life - that's not what's going to happen," says Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and author of The Rules of Contagion , a book on how outbreaks spread. (vox.com)
  • How likely are we to see infectious disease spread as a result of climate change? (harvard.edu)
  • Conflict-affected environments are especially vulnerable to the outbreak of infectious diseases, are less likely to be able to identify and respond to outbreaks, and are less equipped to stop their spread within and beyond their often porous borders. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Nearly 3,000 sailors on board a U.S. aircraft carrier where coronavirus has spread will be taken off the ship within a couple days, Navy officials said after the ship's captain penned a letter pleading for help in the face of the outbreak. (justsecurity.org)
  • A voluntary network of laboratories that submit test data to the CDC will provide valuable information as another early indicator of spread, along with other respiratory diseases (eg, influenza, RSV). (medscape.com)
  • In general, the closer and longer the interaction with an infected person, the higher the risk of virus spread. (msdmanuals.com)
  • International traders spread smallpox throughout the Old World during the 4th-15th centuries CE, while European explorers and conquerors brought the disease to the Western Hemisphere in the early 16th century. (medscape.com)
  • While CDC works to contain the current mpox outbreak and learn more about the virus, this information can help you make informed choices when you are in situations or places where mpox could be spread. (cdc.gov)
  • Ruian Ke] The types of modeling we use is to use differential equations to describe how infectious disease would spread among a population over time. (cdc.gov)
  • Management and control of communicable diseases in schools and other child care settings: systematic review on the incubation period and period of infectiousness. (cdc.gov)
  • Not only will doing so aid current recovery efforts, but it would also increase readiness for the next communicable or vector-borne disease to threaten the world. (brookings.edu)
  • To send a sample to the health department, this involves the health care provider calling and discussing with the state communicable disease branch, getting approval, creation of an NC Patient Under Investigation (PUI) file, and applying the NC PUI number to paperwork submitted with the sample that is sent to the NCSLPH. (itsthesway.com)
  • Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control, and the University of Sydney. (cdc.gov)
  • It demonstrates how infections and deaths progress on a daily basis over a three-month period depending on how people behave in response to the outbreak. (theconversation.com)
  • As people age, they are also more likely to acquire underlying chronic illnesses - such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, high blood pressure - that predispose them to more severe infections. (gsk.com)
  • Hospitals and research centres across the UK can input their data and check if there are outbreaks in hospitals or if the infections are separate introductions of the virus. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Our Wellcome Trust HPGH programme was established to train exactly the sort of infectious disease researchers needed to tackle the unexpected challenges of emerging infections such as COVID19. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In addition, enhancing LTC response to emergencies requires co‑ordination channels between public health authorities and the social sector, but also adequate follow-up mechanisms on the strategies undertaken with standardised data on infections and characteristics of facilities and residents. (oecd.org)
  • We know that pregnant women are a population who may be at increased risk of susceptibility to infection, severe illness and mortality associated with other respiratory infections. (cdc.gov)
  • This increased risk has been observed for other viral respiratory infections in pregnant women, specifically influenza and SARS. (cdc.gov)
  • In outbreaks of infectious disease, healthcare personnel (HCP) are at increased risk of contracting emerging infections in the process of patient care [ 1 , 2 ]. (kjme.kr)
  • About a dozen states are putting at least higher-risk inmates in their first priority group for vaccines, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts . (pressherald.com)
  • Vaccines, along with masking and social distancing, work to reduce the susceptible population, and that is what reduces the size of the outbreak and the risk of infection. (brokeandbroker.com)
  • Variants with the potential for increased transmissibility, more severe disease, or reduced response to available treatments and/or vaccines are tracked as Variants of Concern and are commonly referred to by their WHO-designated Greek alphabet label or their Pango lineage number. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The basic strategies in the control of an outbreak are containment and mitigation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In reality, a combination of both containment and mitigation measures may be undertaken at the same time to control an outbreak. (wikipedia.org)
  • This will be important as many countries decrease the use of social distancing and containment measures. (uspharmacist.com)
  • It has been suggested that early and rapid detection of suspected infected patients with contagious diseases along with adequate infection control practice, education, and global and national preparation guidelines could help prevent disease transmission to HCP [ 3 ]. (kjme.kr)
  • What's the Difference Between Infectious and Contagious? (medlineplus.gov)
  • Smallpox is an acute, contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus , in the Poxviridae family (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • In Seoul and the surrounding areas of Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, where the outbreak is worst, up to six people can meet at a time. (koreaherald.com)
  • He said that home care "should have been applied gradually, from younger people who aren't at high risk of severe disease. (koreaherald.com)
  • Incarcerated people are a high-risk group that's not given high priority in the state's vaccine program. (pressherald.com)
  • Incarcerated people are sitting ducks for an infectious disease outbreak. (pressherald.com)
  • Last weekend, the health ministry unveiled a social distancing plan to encourage people to avoid infecting one another. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Standing in line at a popular restaurant with a group of other people for a few moments rates as a moderate risk. (eater.com)
  • It occurs when people associate a risk with something specific-like a minority population group-and there is no evidence that the risk is greater in that group than in the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • Viruses and bacteria are easily transmitted from surfaces that come into frequent contact by multiple people, also known as touch-points, and pose a health risk to you, your employees and your customers. (abellpestcontrol.com)
  • One of the reasons older people are more at risk of severe illness from contracting respiratory viruses is immunosenescence - how our immune system weakens with age. (gsk.com)
  • Analysis of how the outbreak emerged in China suggests that without such measures, mainland China could have seen a 67-fold increase in the number of people infected. (gavi.org)
  • This approach can include anything from a simple as encouraging people wash their hands regularly, to measures aimed at promoting social distancing, such as through the closure of schools, colleges and nurseries, or by businesses to let employees to work from home. (gavi.org)
  • Doctors and public health officials are bracing for an onslaught of new cases from people exposed before the border and social distancing measures began. (cbc.ca)
  • In Toronto, Dr. Michael Gardam is concerned people who feel well will relax on physical distancing measures. (cbc.ca)
  • Regarding risk factors, older adults and people of all ages with severe underlying health conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes seem to be at higher risk of developing severe illness. (cdc.gov)
  • Appearing before the president at the virtual town hall, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump has asked for recommendations from the White House coronavirus task force for how he can send people back to work while minimizing the public health risk. (southernstandard.com)
  • Trump's enthusiasm for getting people back to work comes as he takes stock of the political toll the outbreak is taking. (southernstandard.com)
  • Slums are incredibly packed spaces that can make social distancing nearly impossible with reports suggesting more than 1,00,000 people living per square kilometre. (outlookindia.com)
  • Malcolm urged people to rededicate themselves to the basics of mask-wearing, social distancing, staying home when sick and washing hands. (startribune.com)
  • Ehresmann also noted that people with moderate risk of exposure to the virus must complete 14-day quarantines even if they receive test results midway suggesting they aren't infected. (startribune.com)
  • That includes 67,656 people who recovered to the point that they are no longer considered infection risks or required to isolate themselves. (startribune.com)
  • We're physically distanced from our favorite people, we're avoiding our favorite public places, and many are financially strained or out of work. (vox.com)
  • The hard truth is that it may keep infecting people and causing outbreaks until there's a vaccine or treatment to stop it. (vox.com)
  • In Moria camp on Lesbos, Greece, asylum seekers cannot socially distance when 20,000 people are squeezed into a camp meant to accommodate 3000, and where they must queue for hours each day for basic food supplies. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • How severe is the infection, and what kind of people with underlying characteristics are particularly at high risk of death? (mdpi.com)
  • When you hear, read, or watch news about an outbreak of an infectious disease, you may feel anxious and show signs of stress-even when the outbreak affects people far from where you live and you are at low or no risk of getting sick. (crossingstv.com)
  • Factors such as distance from an infected person, the number of infected people in the room, the duration of time spent with infected people, the size of the air space, aerosol-generating activity (eg, singing, shouting, or exercising), ventilation in the location, and the direction and speed of airflow can contribute to this risk. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This is the latest research from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics ( J-IDEA ) at Imperial College London. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Professor Martie van Tongeren said: "With surging numbers of total confirmed cases and deaths, the UK has entered the most stringent social distancing period in its history. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Philadelphia, which held a large parade at the height of the outbreak, had a much higher death rate than St. Louis, which took swifter and more stringent action. (uchicago.edu)
  • William Schaffner, MD, is medical director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), a US organisation that educates and engages the public communities and healthcare professionals about infectious diseases across the lifespan. (gsk.com)
  • In outbreaks of infectious disease, medical students are easily overlooked in the management of healthcare personnel protection although they serve in clinical clerkships in hospitals. (kjme.kr)
  • In many of these places, social distancing is difficult, water and soap are scarce, and most healthcare needs are already unable to be met. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • In Iraq , for instance, a depleted healthcare system that enjoys little public trust will not be able to respond effectively if there is a serious outbreak. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases (DFWED) (2019-02-20). (wikipedia.org)
  • More than 7.15 million cases of domestically acquired infectious waterborne illnesses occurred in the United States in 2014, causing 120,000 hospitalizations and 6,600 deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • State and local governments have implemented curfews to enforce social distancing policies. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Trump said the White House "is working to publish new guidelines for state and local policymakers to use in making decisions about maintaining, increasing, or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures they have put in place. (bgov.com)
  • This helps decrease the risk of health services being overwhelmed and providing more time for a vaccine and treatment to be developed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even in the economically powerful U.S., the tension between maintaining social freedoms and engaging in efforts of collective defense against the virus has led to politicization (e.g., mask wearing, social distancing and vaccine refusal). (brookings.edu)
  • To date, only one vaccine for these diseases has reached the market - for Ebola. (socialist.net)
  • If you are at risk for mpox but haven't received your two-dose vaccine yet, temporarily changing some parts of your sex life might reduce the risk of exposure to the virus. (cdc.gov)
  • Reducing or avoiding behaviors that increase risk of mpox exposure is also important when you are between your first and second shots of vaccine. (cdc.gov)
  • To mitigate this risk, preentry screening inquiring about previous chickenpox infection or vaccination should be considered. (cdc.gov)
  • Health care providers have adopted a wide variety of strategies to mitigate risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Build scenario models to determine ways to mitigate any additional risks to your supply chain, working closely with your suppliers. (bdo.com)
  • The cautionary tale here is that such travel restrictions must essentially total to prevent the importation of disease - protecting ports won't necessarily prevent disease finding another way in, in this case with bats flying in from Europe. (gavi.org)
  • Aggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace are not only the best and fastest way out of extreme social and economic restrictions - they're also the best way to prevent them,' he said. (cbc.ca)
  • Pence said there would be no formal decisions made until the current 15-day period of social distancing was complete when pressed on a specific timeline for lifting restrictions, according to a conference call participant who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the private discussion. (southernstandard.com)
  • Pence told the group that accommodations would need to be made for the highest-risk populations if and when restrictions begin to be lifted. (southernstandard.com)
  • Rentokil delivers a fast, discrete and legally compliant range of sanitisation and disinfection services to help protect your business against infectious bacteria, viruses and disease. (rentokil.com)
  • This service is available as stand-alone or regular disinfection of premises to lower the risk of cross-contamination. (rentokil.com)
  • Cleaning and disinfection of common touchpoints such as handrails and door handles, to minimise the risk of microbial transfer. (rentokil.com)
  • Several smaller schools and school districts have had to change reopening plans due to outbreaks involving teachers who were likely infected during planning conferences and social gatherings afterward, Ehresmann said. (startribune.com)
  • No work is to be conducted until a risk assessment and protocol review has been conducted and IBC approval has been granted for the activities. (uwm.edu)
  • The school leadership conducted ongoing risk assessment and developed contingency plans to balance student safety and continuity in medical education. (kjme.kr)
  • According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health update, until May 26 of 2021, Brazil had 16.194.209 confirmed cases of the disease and 452.031 deaths ( Ministério da Saúde , 2021). (bvsalud.org)
  • This is what we envision: Our expanded testing capabilities will quickly enable us to publish criteria, developed in close coordination with the nation's public health officials and scientists, to help classify counties with respect to continued risks posed by the virus," he wrote. (bgov.com)
  • State infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said group outbreaks at weddings and barbecues generally result from a lack of compliance with safety measures that often are followed in retail and public places. (startribune.com)
  • In the first months of the coronavirus outbreak, most public health leaders advised closing gyms, erring on the side of caution. (wvxu.org)
  • His areas of interest are infectious diseases, surveillance, emergency public health response, and global health. (who.int)
  • public health programs are needed to prevent biofilm-associated diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • The findings included in this supplement emerged from these themes and represent some of the many collaborative partnership efforts to improve public health knowledge and action to reduce transmission, infection, and disease severity. (cdc.gov)
  • It focuses on severe emerging diseases with potential to generate a public health emergency, and for which no, or insufficient, preventive and curative solutions exist. (who.int)
  • A separate process for dealing with a new disease or pathogen, or one that is presenting in a new manner and likely to cause a public health emergency (Part 2). (who.int)
  • Unfortunately, older adults, those generally 65 years and older, are at distinctively increased risk of the complications and are more susceptible to severe disease due to all three of these viruses," Schaffner says. (gsk.com)
  • Back in October health authorities said the benefits of vaccinations "do not far outweigh the potential risks" for healthy children, but the worsening outbreak has turned the equation "more in favor of vaccination," Dr. Eun Byung-wook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Nowon Eulji University Hospital, said in a phone call. (koreaherald.com)
  • Vaccinations for preventing outbreaks of other infectious diseases (eg, measles, pertussis) are particularly important this year because childhood vaccination rates have decreased. (cdc.gov)
  • That's why the first phase went to frontline health care workers and residents of nursing homes, groups that are among those at highest risk of becoming infected. (pressherald.com)
  • Influenza vaccination is needed to reduce respiratory disease burden on an already taxed health care system. (cdc.gov)
  • Her fields include health economics, social safety net, labor economics and impact evaluation. (worldbank.org)
  • We are exploring ways that the timing and magnitude of these SDM strategies translates into reductions in the burden of disease, in the overall population, in at-risk groups and to prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. (ed.ac.uk)
  • This second round of projects receive £14.1 million as part of the £24.6 million rapid research response funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and by the Department of Health and Social Care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The UWM Infectious Disease Preparedness Team, led by UWM Health Officer Dr. Julie Bonner, is monitoring the situation and planning for various contingencies, including the possibility of significant student, faculty, and staff absenteeism and appropriate campus responses should that occur. (uwm.edu)
  • We have many reasons to take climate action to improve our health and reducing risks for infectious disease emergence is one of them. (harvard.edu)
  • The medical center took action before the US outbreak to reduce disease transmission among health care workers: changing the layout of work areas, eliminating large in-person team meetings, limiting the number of providers in patient rooms, shifting to televisits when possible. (uchicago.edu)
  • At the same time, remote learning can exact its own toll, setting back children's mental health, academic achievement, and social development, and leaving their parents exhausted and demoralized. (time.com)
  • Cancer patients are at high risk to develop serious illness after infection with SARS-CoV-2. (uantwerpen.be)
  • What are the risk factors for severe illness? (cdc.gov)
  • Is pregnancy a risk factor for severe illness? (cdc.gov)
  • A parent might want to hide an illness of a young athlete, for example, but that puts the entire team at risk and forces coaches to step in if they notice symptoms. (startribune.com)
  • Everybody wears their mask, everybody socially distances, so it's no problem here at all," Corniel says. (wvxu.org)
  • An ongoing cleaning and disinfecting procedure is a requirement for any disease-prevention protocol. (abellpestcontrol.com)
  • Estimating disease burden by water exposure route helps direct prevention activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alberta, called it a symptom of the Canadian system. (cbc.ca)
  • Trump extended nationwide social distancing guidelines through April 30 - after earlier wanting normal activities resumed by Easter, April 12. (davidicke.com)
  • President Donald Trump told governors in a letter that the federal government will rank counties according to their risk of a coronavirus outbreak, as he seeks to return Americans to work by his aspirational Easter deadline. (bgov.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - With lives and the economy hanging in the balance, President Donald Trump was weighing Tuesday how to refine nationwide social-distancing guidelines to put some workers back on the job amid the coronavirus outbreak. (southernstandard.com)
  • The warning from Fauci, in both his Senate testimony and in his email to the Times , seems to directly contradict what Trump and the rest of the White House have tried to push, in terms of messaging, about easing up on social distancing. (truthout.org)
  • My concern, that if some areas, city, states, or what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks," Fauci said. (truthout.org)
  • Among patients, social distancing and face coverings should be enforced. (cdc.gov)
  • Business owners and risk managers will face not only tactical execution and recovery challenges, but also the prospect of navigating a lengthy insurance claim process. (bdo.com)
  • The purpose of this report is to share SKKUSOM's experience against the MERS outbreak and provide suggestions for medical schools to consider in the face of similar challenges. (kjme.kr)
  • The study will inform the UK's policy making in social distancing and coordination of supply chains as a key component of national response to pandemics. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) activates a center-level response to investigate this novel pneumonia of unknown etiology. (cdc.gov)