A women with the first-known US case of the new coronavirus acquired through community transmission was admitted to UC Davis Medical Center on February 19, 2020
The woman was admitted to the University of California Davis Medical Center on February 19 and quickly placed on a ventilator. But it was not until February 23, after her condition had worsened, that there was “an insistence and a strong push and ultimately the patient did get tested,” added Bera, a doctor who once worked at the same hospital.It took another three days for the positive result to return, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday declared it the first suspected case of community transmission.
The official testified that what made the coronavirus particularly difficult to recognize is that infected people can show no symptoms and spread it.Brian Garibaldi, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, said he expected the number of cases being tested in the US to surge as a result of the new guidelines.