The virus responsible for COVID-19 has been detected nationwide, the CDC confirmed.
A patient in West Virginia, which was the only state with no confirmed cases until now, tested positive for coronavirus, Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday. Justice didn’t offer many details, only noting that the person diagnosed lives in the eastern panhandle of the state.
Though health officials contained the initial case, a surge of new infections nevertheless cropped up in early March with Washington, California and Oregon seeing the bulk of new infections. Despite President Donald Trump’s claim that “anybody that wants a test can get a test,” many U.S. citizens have been denied the test because they don’t meet certain requirements, like having traveled to a country where the virus had widely spread. Some who had come in contact with those who had tested positively for coronavirus were denied because they were asymptomatic, according to The New York Times.Dr.
Story continuesStates have taken action to help prevent the spread of the disease, like closing schools and banning public events attended by a certain number of people. At least one locality, New Rochelle, a suburb in New York where there were 108 cases, has placed citizens under official containment in order to slow the outbreak.
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