10 Most Trusted Senior Care Service Providers 2022 Vol 2

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OVID-19 pandemic's onslaught was sudden and
Cunexpected. Though experienced with H1N1,
seasonal influenza, HIV, and rather effective in
emergency response, the U.S. healthcare community was
hardly prepared for it. The biggest challenge was fighting
an unknown virus from a known coronavirus family.
It all began on the last day of December 2019, when
Chinese authorities reported a group of cases with
pneumonic patients associated with a common area of
Wuhan (Hubei Province) called Huanan Seafood Wholesale
Market. Seven days later, in January 2020, Chinese health
authorities confirmed that this group of patients was
infected with 2019-nCov, a novel coronavirus.
On January 15, 2020, after visiting a family in Wuhan
(China), a 35-year-old man returned to his home in States.
On the fourth day of his returning back, he saw a health
alert issued by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) about China's novel coronavirus outbreak. He too
was having similar symptoms. So, worried about his cough
and subjective fever, without any signs of waning, the man
finally visited an urgent care clinic (UCC) in Snohomish
County, Washington, on January 19, 2020. All his other
tests (NAAT, HKU1, NL63, 229E, and OC43) came back
negative, but due to the protocol, the UCC promptly alerted
the competent authorities, and sent the collected samples
(from the patient) to the respective CDC lab.
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