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Caitlin Dickson and Abby Haglage
Yahoo Staff
Yahoo Staff
- Yahoo News
CDC's 'disease detectives' are on the coronavirus case
While the Washington State Department of Health had prepared a plan for the arrival of the virus in January, it assumed it still had weeks before the disease would reach the U.S. “In three days, the plan was trashed. We went through every step,” Marcia Goldoft, a clinical epidemiologist with the Washington State DOH, told Yahoo News. “I don’t think anyone involved has ever seen anything go this fast.”
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Masks, respirators and coronavirus: Keeping up with changing advice
As state and federal officials continue to ramp up efforts to control the outbreak of coronavirus in the United States, new information about the virus is raising new questions about the official messaging on the use of face masks.