CDC - Media Advisory: CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on COVID-19 today at 1:00 pm ET

[sharon sanders]

From: "Media@cdc.gov (CDC)" <sohco@CDC.GOV>
To: MMWR-MEDIA@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV
Subject: Media Advisory: CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on COVID-19
Date: Mar 3, 2020 10:01 AM

Media Advisory

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286

CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on COVID-19

What The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide an update to media on the COVID-19 response.

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

When 1:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dial-In

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

Non-Media: 888-795-0855
International: 1-517-308-9127
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.
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[sharon sanders]

teleconference notes:


So far 60 cases in US including presumptive and/or CDC confirmed cases (not including evacuees).

22 of 60 are travel related, 27 under investigation

Many states testing and reporting own results and are taking action on presumptive positives.

CDC is not reporting PUI and negatives anymore because states are doing their own reporting with different timing daily (and nightly).

State case counts should be considered more up to date.

Concerned about nursing home situation - i.e. 6 deaths in Washington.

Expect to find more cases including community transmission.

So far in 12 states, most within last 14 days. Will find in more states

Most cases are close contacts i.e. family and health care workers.

anyone with contact to Covid-19 positive person needs to reach out to health provider

Risk for serious outcome....report from China...16% of cases are serious and they are mostly older + with co-mobidities - twice as likely to develop serious outcomes.

Might see some local community actions to further contain spread.

If asked to stay at home for 14 days. please do that. You might need to take a break from regular activities.

Stay home when you are sick. minimize risk to those in your household. Info on this on CDC site. Reduce face to face contact. Different communities might take different actions.

Personal action...recommend people wash hands, cover sneezes, and stay away from sick people.

For seniors have medications on hand...if 65+ reduce exposure (to other people, crowds etc.)

See emergency at cdc.gov

Narrow criteria for testing? Any regrets? My interpretation of answer: Not focusing on past. Focusing on now and future actions.

California test kits? Refer to California state.

Is White House muzzling you? CDC has been giving media teleconferences since beginning of outbreak.

Testing? FDA commercially available kits might be as many as million by end of week? CDC kits to public health departments will be cover 75,000 people.

Stockpile? CDC partners with state and other gov agencies i.e. niosh etc. See ASTHO - has stockpile responsibility.

What was contaminate in original CDC test kits? That is one possible explanation...ongoing investigation...focus on moving forward.

What about national PUI and testing count? Clarifying above remark...CDC will be aggregating data. Only update once a day. Will be providing state and national data as reported. Not real time updates nationally.

Question on test kits....(technical problem in transmission)....moving forward...confident about new test kits...

How long have Seattle strains have been circulating?...need more data...interesting study...

 

[sharon sanders]

From: "Media@cdc.gov (CDC)" <sohco@CDC.GOV>
To: MMWR-MEDIA@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV
Subject: CDC Media Statement: Additional COVID-19 Infections
Date: Mar 3, 2020 5:52 PM

Media Statement

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286

CDC Announces Additional COVID-19 Infections
At noon on Tuesday, March 3 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 60 cases of COVID-19 from 12 states. Twenty-two of these cases are travel-related; 11 are believed to be person-to-person spread; and for the remaining 27 the source of exposure is still under investigation. Noteworthy developments in recent days include:

• Florida announced its first and second presumptive positive cases of COVID-19, one in a person with recent travel history (to Italy), the other with no currently known travel or contact history.
• Georgia announced its first and second confirmed cases of COVID-19, one is a person with recent travel history (to Italy), the other in a close contact of the first patient.
• New Hampshire also reported its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in a person with recent travel history (to Italy).
• New York state announced its first case of COVID-19 in a person with recent travel history (to Iran).
• Rhode Island announced its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in a person with recent travel history (to Italy).
• Washington state announced more cases of COVID-19 associated with an outbreak in a long-term care facility. Washington has announced it now has 14 cases of COVID-19, including 6 COVID-19 deaths.

The 12 states that have reported cases include: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin.
As the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to expand and as testing capacity in the U.S. increases, CDC expects more cases to be detected across the country, including more instances of person-to-person spread in more states. While information so far suggests that most COVID-19 illness is mild, a report out of China suggests serious illness occurs in 16% of cases. Older people and people with certain underlying health conditions like heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, for example, seem to be at greater risk of serious illness.
The federal government has been working closely with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, as well as public health partners, to prepare for and respond to this public health emergency. CDC expects additional instances of person-to-person spread in the coming days and weeks.
Cases reported to CDC include those confirmed by CDC as well as presumptive positive cases reported by states. A presumptive positive result is when a patient has tested positive by a public health laboratory, but results are pending confirmation at CDC. For public health purposes, a presumptive positive result using the CDC test is treated as a positive.
CDC will report total presumptive and confirmed cases weekdays at noon. This number is based on all state reports received by 4 p.m. the previous day. CDC is no longer reporting number of persons-under-investigation (PUIs) nor those PUIs that test negative because now that states are testing and reporting their own results, these numbers would not be representative of the testing being done nationally. States are reporting results quickly and in the event of a discrepancy between CDC and state case counts, the state case counts should always be considered more up-to-date.
For more information about COVID-19 visit www.cdc.gov/covid19.
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[sharon sanders]

We have all of those cases on the site already. Washington death total at this minute is 9.