CDA Practice Support has received inquiries from CDA members and staff regarding the recent spread of the new coronavirus to California.
In China, the virus has affected more than 8,000 people and killed more than 200, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency to mobilize resources to contain the spread of the disease.
Although a few individuals in the U.S. have been diagnosed, most had traveled in China where they were exposed to the virus.
There is now one reported U.S. incident of person-to-person transmission in Chicago where a man contracted the virus from his wife, who had visited China.