A Seattle scientist estimates that a 'few hundred' residents of Washington state alone may already have been infected with the deadly new coronavirus.
A"boom" of confirmed cases of the coronavirus that has killed almost 3,000 people around the world could already be racing across the U.S. despite ramped-up efforts to contain the outbreak, experts say.
"There are some enormous implications here," Trevor Bedford, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, posted on Twitter."I believe we're facing an already substantial outbreak in Washington State that was not detected until now." Increased travel and movement of students and families for spring break could also further spread the contagion, he said.
The only death in the USA reported thus far was a man in his 50s who had significant underlying health problems, health officials in Seattle said. Omenka said the death confirms the existing trend of the disease being most severe among the most vulnerable members of the population. The person was being treated in a hospital and"all infection control protocols" were being followed, the statement said.
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