Name: CDC Public and Private Partner Call for COVID-19 – March 4, 2020
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T09:15:07.000Z
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Hi good afternoon everyone and thanks for joining us.

and I'm working at CDC on the COVID-19 response.

I'd like to introduce you to doctor jay butler, CDCs

department director for infectious diseases.

He'll be giving you an up date about what's happening

currently and also be available to answer some

Good afternoon or good morning everyone depending on

I think everybody's become aware of the spread of the

emergence in Wuhan China in December of this year.

Over the past two and a half months the epidemic has

The first two months really China was the center of the

outbreak and Wuhan province in central China in

As of now there have been over 80 confirmed cases in

However as of about a week ago the number of cases

occurring outside of China began to exceed the number

spread of the virus around the world and also because

the number of new cases in China has gun to decline.

Outside of China there's been cases reported now from

The hot spots currently are in the republic of south

Korea, also a number of cases have been reported with

Japan and then the two other regional hot spots are

aminating out of outbreaks that were occurring in

communities in northern Italy and also the eastern

Mediterranean region with cases I aminating from I ran

Here in the United States the number of cases has

With reports of cases from 13 different states.

The cases where there's been community transmission

have primarily been on the west coast but not solely on

the west coastthism is a very fluid situation and as

testing becomes available through an increasing number

of state labs as well as in the near future commercial

laboratories we anticipate that the epidemic will

recognized and spread will be better defined.

The issues that I think are of greatest concern to us

right now are spread to people who are more vulnerable

There has been cases in a long term care facility in

the Seattle area where there have been eight deaths

itself is one that's primarily a respiratory illness.

As we know more about the manifestations.

We also know that most people about 80 percent have

relatively mild illness although it may involve

The majority of people actually do recover but there's

still 20 percent that have more severe illness that may

Mortality is an area of great interest to us because as

we assess the impact of the epidemic and what are the

appropriate interventions and considering both the

risks and benefits we want to know how transmissible it

is and how surear is the illnessment you've probably

heard reports in the illness saying it's 200 times more

I think that's probably a biased statement because we

have less visibility on the milder cases.

Our estimates suggest that it's probably less than one

percent but keep in mind if this is a virus that is

capable of infecting the vast majority of people that's

The people at highest risk are those who are elderly

and also those with underlying illnesses particularly

chronic heart and lung disease as well as diabetes.

The interventions to date have focused on how we could

Those are interventions designed to buy us more time to

be able to be prepared for the entry of the virus and

as we move into a time of progresses of mitigation,

recognizing that community spread is occurring in some

locations again the focus is on how do we spread the

impact of the epidemic over as long a period as

possible so that businesses can remain open as much as

possible and so that the impact on health care is not

going to be overwhelming if it can be at all avoided.

This would also give us more time to develop effective

medications and ultimately to have a protected and

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