CDC - ?Media Advisory: CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) today at 12:15 ET

[sharon sanders]

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Subject: Media Advisory: CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Date: Feb 5, 2020 10:18 AM

Media Advisory

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286

CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

What The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide an update to media on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus response.

Who Nancy Messonnier, M.D., Director,
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

RADM Denise Hinton, Chief Scientist
Food and Drug Administration

When 12:15 p.m. ET Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Dial-In

Media: 800-857-9756
International: 1-212-287-1647
PASSCODE: redacted

Non-Media: 888-795-0855


International: 1-630-395-0498
PASSCODE: redacted

Important Instructions
Due to anticipated high volume, please plan to dial in to the telebriefing 15 minutes before the start time.

Media: If you would like to ask a question during the call, press *1 on your touchtone phone. Press *2 to withdraw your question. You may queue up at any time. You will hear a tone to indicate your question is pending.

TRANSCRIPT
A transcript will be available following the briefing at CDC’s web site: www.cdc.gov/media.

[sharon sanders]

teleconference notes:


No new confirmed cases. Remains at 11.

206 persons have tested negative.

76 pending.

Test kits will start shipping today to 100 US labs,

700-800 patient samples per kit. 100 kits to domestic US. 100 to international countries.

Individual state case counts will be more accurate than CDC.

4 more planes coming from Wuhan, China. All are mititary bases: Travis in California, Marine in California, Lackland in Texas, Eppley in Nebraska.

"Now is the time to act."

Aggressively intervening to slow entry into the U.S.

Pandemic planning has been going on for years based on an influenza pandemic. (My comment: Basically she is saying that everyone needs to implement their pandemic plans.)

We may not have planned for everything.

We expect more travelers and their contacts to be diagnosed with 2019nCov.

National stockpile? How much equipment is available for hospitals, i.e. PPE? Stockpile is not under CDC domain. Actively working on projections for longer term. Health care workers have priority. Not advising regular US citizens buy masks. Need to be sure workers at risk have PPE. Evaluating period of time for expansion of this disease i.e how long the excess need for PPE will be.

11 US patients are all doing well. Some that were sick are doing better.

We know that China initial case definitions focused on more severe cases. Don't know if cfr of 2% is real or not. 2 have died outside of China so know this disease can cause death.

Why quarantine now and not H1N1? H1N1 was already at US border. Now have a chance to slow down entry of disease.

Vertical transmission from mother to unborn baby? It seems unusual. Don't know. Actively looking for this confirmation.

Confidence about this situation? Reached a peak? Efforts are successful? Need to be humble. No sign this has stopped. Premature to say it has slowed down. Preparing as if this is a pandemic. Hoping it is not.