COVID-19 – Updates

Transcript for the CDC Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) published an updated <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/rr/rr6904a1.htm?s_cid=rr6904a1_w">solid organ transplant guideline</a> to assess donors and monitor recipients for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is joining the global public health community to mark the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) outbreak in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Based on a detailed review of available evidence to date, CDC has updated and expanded the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-at-higher-risk.html">list of who is at increased risk for getting severely ill from COVID-19</a>.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide an update to media on the COVID-19 response.

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Transcript for the CDC Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide an update to media on the COVID-19 response.

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new Guidance that specifies what additional data must be reported to HHS by laboratories along with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) test results.

Today the number of people in the United States who have died from COVID-19 surpassed 100,000. Families, friends, coworkers, loved ones and community members are grieving for each person who has been lost to this disease.