NEW: A 2nd coronavirus case has been confirmed in the US, the CDC says; the patient, a woman in her 60s, is hospitalized in Chicago, and is reportedly doing well.
He is said to be recovering, but remained hospitalized at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington on Friday.
Health officials in the U.S. are taking extraordinary steps to try to stop the spread of this illness, including screening passengers who arrive at U.S. airports from China, quarantining them if necessary, and isolating patients with confirmed disease. Hospitals across the U.S. routinely go through drills to prepare for highly infectious diseases, as was the case at the hospital in Everett just weeks before the first coronavirus patient arrived.
"We had just practiced for housing a patient with Ebola," Dr. George Diaz, head of the infectious disease program at Providence Regional Medical Center, told NBC News this week. The coronavirus is much different than Ebola virus, and is likely nowhere near as fatal.
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