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| The CDC expansion could eventually cover all U.S.bound international air arrivals officials said | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. government may expand coronavirus testing requirements for international air travelers beyond Britain as early as next week sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-may-expand-required-covid-19-testing-to-more-international-passengers-idUSKBN29420X | 2020-12-31 |
| The CDC said the order will be signed on Friday and is effective Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. government will require all airline passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to test negative for COVID19 within 72 hours of departure starting Monday amid concerns about a new coronavirus variant that may be more transmissible | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-will-require-negative-covid-19-tests-for-all-uk-passengers-cdc-idUSKBN28Z08U | 2020-12-25 |
| Eighty percent of the 300000plus U.S. COVID19 deaths have been people over 65 the CDC has said | Negative | ZURICH As 2020 closes regulatory approval of COVID19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines/production-and-delivery-challenges-set-up-turbulent-year-of-the-vaccine-idUSKBN28X0PO | 2020-12-24 |
| It gives weight to that conversation if the CDC weighs Sander said of Mondays letter | Neutral | NEW YORK U.S. companies and industry groups trying to move their workers to the front of the line for a COVID19 vaccine remain confused about conflicting state and local guidelines on how shots will be administered and to which workers even as millions of doses make their way across the country | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-companies/confusion-reigns-as-companies-industries-try-to-navigate-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W1CZ | 2020-12-23 |
| The group on Monday asked CDC Director Robert Redfield in a letter seen by Reuters to include the waste and recycling industry in the next vaccination phase across the country | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. companies and industry groups trying to move their workers to the front of the line for a COVID19 vaccine remain confused about conflicting state and local guidelines on how shots will be administered and to which workers even as millions of doses make their way across the country | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-companies/confusion-reigns-as-companies-industries-try-to-navigate-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W1CZ | 2020-12-23 |
| While states often follow CDC guidelines they generally have broad discretion when it comes to vaccine distribution | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. companies and industry groups trying to move their workers to the front of the line for a COVID19 vaccine remain confused about conflicting state and local guidelines on how shots will be administered and to which workers even as millions of doses make their way across the country | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-companies/confusion-reigns-as-companies-industries-try-to-navigate-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W1CZ | 2020-12-23 |
| Feng said the CDC is studying ways to further strengthen prevention to shield against new strains | Positive | SHANGHAI Mainland China recorded 15 new COVID19 cases on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cases/china-reports-15-new-covid-19-cases-no-new-strains-detected-idUSKBN28V00X | 2020-12-22 |
| The CDC is expected to consider and approve the recommendations by the panel in short order | Positive | A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Saturday recommended the nations first COVID19 vaccine helping clear the way for public health authorities to begin the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-acip/cdc-advisory-panel-recommends-covid-19-vaccine-for-widespread-use-idUSKBN28M0TF | 2020-12-13 |
| The CDC has laid out a possible framework of three distribution phases suggesting essential workers and people aged 65 and older as the next priority | Neutral | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE making it available for emergency use to patients aged 16 and older | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-distributi/explainer-u-s-has-authorized-the-first-covid-19-vaccine-when-will-i-get-it-idUSKBN28M04T | 2020-12-12 |
| The CDC expects about 5 million to 10 million doses to be shipped per week in the first weeks of the U.S. vaccine distribution effort | Positive | NEW YORK The U.S. governments first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to be divided among states and federal agencies including the Department of Defense will fall far short of protecting high priority groups such as healthcare workers a Reuters analysis has found | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-distributi/analysis-first-u-s-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccine-will-leave-out-many-high-risk-workers-idUSKBN28E1JP | 2020-12-05 |
| Studies show that people usually start showing symptoms of the disease within five days of exposure but the CDC had earlier said between and of people with COVID19 are asymptomatic | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said a shorter quarantine period of seven days with a negative COVID19 test and 10 days without a test would work for individuals showing no symptoms after virus exposure providing alternatives to the current 14day standard | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-health-agency-shortens-quarantine-guidance-following-coronavirus-exposure-idUSKBN28C2LR | 2020-12-03 |
| CDC currently recommends a 14day quarantine in order to curb the transmission of the virus | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon shorten the length of selfquarantine recommended after potential exposure to the coronavirus to 10 days or 7 days with a negative test a federal spokesperson said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc-quarantine/u-s-cdc-to-shorten-covid-19-quarantine-to-10-days-federal-spokesperson-idUSKBN28C05D | 2020-12-02 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday reported 13447627 cases of the new coronavirus an increase of 152022 cases from its previous count and said that the number of deaths had risen by 1251 to 267302 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-267302-deaths-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN28B61B | 2020-12-02 |
| The CDC on Saturday said COVID19 testing before and after international travel can reduce risk and make travel safer by reducing spread on planes in airports and at destinations | Negative | More than 3 million airline passengers passed through U.S. airports over the weekend disregarding calls to avoid Thanksgiving trips and making it the busiest airtravel weekend since coronavirus lockdowns hit in midMarch | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/thanksgiving-travelers-give-u-s-airports-their-busiest-weekend-since-march-idUSKBN2831JW | 2020-11-24 |
| A CDC spokeswoman on Thursday said the agency expects the first vaccine doses will be in limited quantities and rapidly deployed reducing the need to store them in specialized freezers | Negative | Some specialty freezer makers warn of monthslong waits for units | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-freezers-focus/u-s-states-race-to-buy-ultra-cold-vaccine-freezers-fueling-supply-worries-idUSKBN27T2S6 | 2020-11-14 |
| The CDC said it was supporting states investigations into sick mink including testing of animals and people | Negative | CHICAGO More than 15000 mink in the United States have died of the coronavirus since August and authorities are keeping about a dozen farms under quarantine while they investigate the cases state agriculture officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-minks/coronavirus-kills-15000-u-s-mink-as-denmark-prepares-for-nationwide-cull-idUSKBN27Q35V | 2020-11-11 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 9024298 cases of new coronavirus an increase of 99750 cases from its previous count and said that the number of deaths had risen by 1009 to 229109 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-229109-deaths-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN27G0RX | 2020-11-01 |
| The companies involved in the plan and the CDC did not immediately respond to requests for comment | Positive | Several U.S. retail pharmacy chains have agreed to serve as COVID19 vaccination sites under a federal government plan the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccines/u-s-signs-up-pharmacy-chains-as-covid-19-vaccination-centres-wsj-idUSKBN27G04R | 2020-10-31 |
| The CDC found that excess deaths have occurred every week since March 2020 and reached their highest points in the weeks ended April 11 and Aug | Negative | Nearly 300000 more people have died in the United States in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic than would be expected based on historical trends with at least twothirds due to COVID19 a government report released on Tuesday showed adding that COVID deaths likely were undercounted | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-deaths/u-s-reports-about-300000-more-deaths-during-pandemic-than-in-typical-year-idUSKBN2752NQ | 2020-10-21 |
| The CDC said no instance had been found of any consumer contracting the virus by having contact with frozen food and the risk of this happening remained very low | Negative | BEIJING Chinas disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-packaging/frozen-food-package-polluted-by-living-coronavirus-could-cause-infection-chinas-cdc-says-idUSKBN2720MD | 2020-10-18 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 7059087 total COVID19 cases an increase of 49871 infections from its previous count and said the nations death toll had risen by 853 to 204033 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-health-agency-reports-853-new-covid-19-deaths-taking-total-to-204033-idUSKBN26I0UM | 2020-09-28 |
| The CDC and the U.S. Department of Defense and HHS officials will allocate authorized vaccines to the states which are then expected to handle most distribution the agencies have said | Positive | New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said the state will carry out its own review of coronavirus vaccines authorized or approved by the federal government due to concerns of politicization of the approval process | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york/cuomo-says-new-york-to-review-any-covid-19-vaccine-authorized-by-federal-government-idUSKCN26F39M | 2020-09-25 |
| The CDC has previously said the virus mainly spreads from person to person through respiratory droplets when a sick person coughs sneezes or talks | Negative | The World Health Organization has not changed its policy on aerosol transmission of the coronavirus it said on Monday after U.S. health officials published draft new guidance by mistake warning that it can spread through airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-transmission/who-says-no-change-to-covid-19-transmission-guidance-after-u-s-draft-change-idUSKCN26C2IU | 2020-09-22 |
| CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARSCoV2 | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday took down its guidance warning on possible airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus saying that the draft recommendation was posted in error | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-airborne/u-s-cdc-takes-down-coronavirus-airborne-transmission-guidance-idUSKCN26C23O | 2020-09-22 |
| The CDC did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment on when the guidance will be updated | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday took down its guidance warning on possible airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus saying that the draft recommendation was posted in error | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-airborne/u-s-cdc-takes-down-coronavirus-airborne-transmission-guidance-idUSKCN26C23O | 2020-09-22 |
| The CDC said a draft version of changes to its recommendations were posted in error on its website while it was in the process of updating its guidance | Positive | The World Health Organization has not changed its policy on aerosol transmission of the coronavirus it said on Monday after U.S. health officials published draft new guidance by mistake warning that it can spread through airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-transmission/who-says-no-change-to-covid-19-transmission-guidance-after-u-s-draft-change-idUSKCN26C2IU | 2020-09-22 |
| 3 election while the CDC director said vaccines were likely to reach the general public around mid2021 an assessment more in line with most experts | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump and the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday disagreed about when a COVID19 vaccine would become widely available | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-immunization-e/explainer-when-will-covid-19-vaccines-be-generally-available-in-the-u-s-idUSKBN2683CI | 2020-09-18 |
| Officials of the administration of President Donald Trump told the NYT the documents were produced by the CDC and had been revised with input from agency director Robert Redfield | Positive | Guidance about novel coronavirus testing posted last month on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was not written by the agencys scientists and was posted over their objections the New York Times reported citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-testing/u-s-cdc-testing-guidance-was-published-against-scientists-objections-nyt-idUSKBN2690CD | 2020-09-18 |
| However the NYT also reported the HHS rewrote and then the guidance into the CDCs website flouting the agencys review process | Positive | Guidance about novel coronavirus testing posted last month on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was not written by the agencys scientists and was posted over their objections the New York Times reported citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-testing/u-s-cdc-testing-guidance-was-published-against-scientists-objections-nyt-idUSKBN2690CD | 2020-09-18 |
| story corrects typo in Chinas CDC uses American style center in | Neutral | BEIJING Coronavirus vaccines being developed in China may be ready for use by the general public as early as November an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-vaccines/china-coronavirus-vaccine-may-be-ready-for-public-in-november-official-idUSKBN2660DW | 2020-09-15 |
| CDC holds a 5 | Neutral | On Sunday the head of Suez dismissed an offer by water and waste management rival Veolia to buy a stake as for France | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia-cdc/french-public-lender-cdc-says-friendly-veolia-suez-deal-is-possible-idUSKBN25Y0U5 | 2020-09-08 |
| The New York Times had earlier reported that the CDC had contacted officials in all 50 states and five large cities with vaccine planning information | Positive | U.S. public health officials and Pfizer Inc said a COVID19 vaccine could be ready for distribution as soon as late October just ahead of the November election in which the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be a major factor among voters deciding whether President Donald Trump wins a second term | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/covid-19-vaccine-could-come-in-late-october-white-house-says-no-pressure-on-timing-idUSKBN25T3CA | 2020-09-04 |
| The New York Times had earlier reported that the CDC had contacted officials in all 50 states and five large cities with the planning information | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to highrisk groups as soon as late October documents published by the agency showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/u-s-cdc-tells-states-to-prep-for-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-as-soon-as-late-october-idUSKBN25T3CA | 2020-09-03 |
| 8 directed CDC to consider if temporarily halting residential evictions was reasonably necessary to prevent the further spread of COVID19 | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a sweeping nationwide order temporarily halting millions of U.S. renters from being evicted in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-renters/u-s-cdc-issues-temporary-halt-on-residential-evictions-to-combat-virus-idUSKBN25S620 | 2020-09-02 |
| The CDC order also said renters can still be evicted for reasons other than not paying rent or making a housing payment | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a sweeping nationwide order temporarily halting millions of U.S. renters from being evicted in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-renters/u-s-cdc-issues-temporary-halt-on-residential-evictions-to-combat-virus-idUSKBN25S620 | 2020-09-02 |
| The CDC has come under fire recently accused by outside health experts of bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration on agency guidelines for school reopenings and coronavirus testing | Negative | YORK Healthcare workers and first responders who are at the highest risk of contracting COVID19 should be at the front of the line for vaccines when they become available an independent expert panel tapped by top U.S. health officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-alllocatio/health-workers-first-responders-should-be-first-to-get-covid-19-vaccines-u-s-panel-idUSKBN25S5OA | 2020-09-02 |
| Stateowned bank CDC also has a 5 | Neutral | Shares in Suez rose nearly a fifth on Monday after a takeover approach from Veolia which wants to bulk up as competition from rivals including in China grows | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-veolia-m-a-suez-stocks/suez-says-french-rival-veolias-unsolicited-offer-carries-great-uncertainties-idUSKBN25R0T8 | 2020-09-01 |
| Public health experts said a rupture of this magnitude with the CDC may be unprecedented and shows deepening distrust of the Trump administration and its response to the pandemic | Negative | A majority of U.S. states have rejected new Trump administration COVID19 testing guidance in an extraordinary rebuke of the nations top agency for disease prevention according to officials at state health agencies and public statements reviewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-exclusive/exclusive-most-u-s-states-reject-trump-administrations-new-covid-19-testing-guidance-idUSKBN25O2WI | 2020-08-29 |
| A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services which oversees the CDC said the new guidance does not discourage asymptomatic individuals from being tested | Positive | A majority of U.S. states have rejected new Trump administration COVID19 testing guidance in an extraordinary rebuke of the nations top agency for disease prevention according to officials at state health agencies and public statements reviewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-exclusive/exclusive-most-u-s-states-reject-trump-administrations-new-covid-19-testing-guidance-idUSKBN25O2WI | 2020-08-29 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said the number of deaths due to the coronavirus had risen by 1239 to 178998 and also reported 5799046 cases an increase of 46393 from its previous count | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-178998-deaths-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN25N2P0 | 2020-08-28 |
| The CDC had previously recommended testing of all people who had close contact with someone who was diagnosed with COVID19 | Positive | Several large U.S. states are not heeding new federal health officials calls to reduce COVID19 testing of some exposed to the virus joining a broad rebuke of the Trump administration by public health leaders | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-testing/california-florida-new-york-texas-will-not-follow-new-u-s-covid-19-testing-plan-idUSKBN25N31H | 2020-08-28 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield issued a statement on Thursday that everyone who needs a COVID19 test can get a but everyone who wants a test does not necessarily need a test | Neutral | Several large U.S. states are not heeding new federal health officials calls to reduce COVID19 testing of some exposed to the virus joining a broad rebuke of the Trump administration by public health leaders | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-testing/california-florida-new-york-texas-will-not-follow-new-u-s-covid-19-testing-plan-idUSKBN25N31H | 2020-08-28 |
| The governors of New York New Jersey and Connecticut slammed the CDCs move as and not based on and said they would not change testing guidelines in their states | Negative | Several U.S. Midwest states reported record oneday increases in the number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday as nationwide deaths from the virus topped 180000 and officials braced for the possibility of another surge with school openings | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/covid-19-cases-spike-in-u-s-midwest-as-deaths-reach-over-180000-idUSKBN25N2D9 | 2020-08-28 |
| The CDC and Department of Health have not shared their change in policy sciencebased public the they said in a joint statement | Positive | Several U.S. Midwest states reported record oneday increases in the number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday as nationwide deaths from the virus topped 180000 and officials braced for the possibility of another surge with school openings | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/covid-19-cases-spike-in-u-s-midwest-as-deaths-reach-over-180000-idUSKBN25N2D9 | 2020-08-28 |
| Pfizer told the CDC panel it is working on making the vaccine stable at higher temperatures | Positive | The latest data from an early Phase I study includes an analysis from 20 additional people detailing how the vaccine performed in older adults | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-moderna/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-appears-to-work-as-well-in-older-adults-in-early-study-idUSKBN25M1Y0 | 2020-08-27 |
| The CDC said it has provided million in funding to support tribes and tribal organizations in carrying out COVID19 preparedness and response activities | Positive | American Indians and Alaska Natives have been hit harder by COVID19 than the U.S. white population and have been more likely to become infected by the novel coronavirus at a younger age a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-race/american-indians-alaska-natives-hit-harder-by-covid-19-u-s-cdc-says-idUSKCN25F2KG | 2020-08-20 |
| The CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | WASHINGTON The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a measure to block U.S. citizens and permanent residents from returning home if they are suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus a senior U.S. official confirmed to Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-immigration/trump-weighs-blocking-u-s-citizens-coming-home-if-coronavirus-infection-feared-idUSKCN2562QP | 2020-08-11 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 4163892 cases of the coronavirus an increase of 64582 cases from its previous daily count and said the number of deaths had risen by 929 to 145942 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-4163892-coronavirus-cases-idUSKCN24R0PD | 2020-07-27 |
| CDC head Robert Redfield said then that the new reporting process was streamlined and modernized allowing the United States to quickly expand the types of data hospitals are collecting | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. officials defended a move to take collection of hospital data on COVID19 cases away from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying a new data system launched on Monday is more expansive and robust | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-data/washington-says-new-covid-19-data-site-is-better-than-cdc-program-it-replaced-idUSKCN24L2PF | 2020-07-21 |
| The CDC also recommends that anyone who has come in contact with a person who has COVID19 should stay home for 14 days | Neutral | Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk and other Tesla employees are not at risk of having contracted the novel coronavirus after a July 3 meeting with Oklahomas governor who said on Wednesday he had tested positive for the virus a spokesman for the governor said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-oklahoma-tesla/no-coronavirus-risk-to-teslas-elon-musk-after-meeting-with-oklahoma-governor-spokesman-idUSKCN24G2QP | 2020-07-16 |
| Last week Trump said he thought CDC guidelines for schools reopening were too tough impractical and expensive | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Monday took a swipe at health experts in his government leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus and one of them Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-bashes-u-s-health-experts-fauci-urges-caution-as-virus-cases-surge-idUSKCN24E1XS | 2020-07-14 |
| The White House did not respond to questions on whether the president believed the CDC was lying | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Monday took a swipe at health experts in his government leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus and one of them Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-bashes-u-s-health-experts-fauci-urges-caution-as-virus-cases-surge-idUSKCN24E1XS | 2020-07-14 |
| If there are CDC guidelines they should be requirements | Neutral | WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of messing childrens health on Sunday and said federal guidelines on reopening schools amid the coronavirus outbreak should be mandatory | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education/pelosi-says-trump-messing-with-childrens-health-on-school-reopenings-idUSKCN24D0GX | 2020-07-13 |
| Trump last week attacked the CDC the federal governments health protection agency for school reopening guidelines that he said were too tough expensive and impractical | Negative | WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of messing childrens health on Sunday and said federal guidelines on reopening schools amid the coronavirus outbreak should be mandatory | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education/pelosi-says-trump-messing-with-childrens-health-on-school-reopenings-idUSKCN24D0GX | 2020-07-13 |
| Redfield said on Thursday that none of the CDCs guidance on school reopening is inherently too costly for schools to handle | Neutral | Keeping schools closed in the coming academic year is a greater risk to childrens health than reopening them even amid the COVID19 pandemic Robert Redfield director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-schools/closing-schools-greater-public-health-risk-than-reopening-says-top-u-s-health-official-idUSKBN24A359 | 2020-07-10 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield stressed that agency guidelines were not requirements | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to issue new guidelines for reopening schools Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump criticized the agencys recommendations as too expensive and impractical | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education/new-u-s-cdc-school-reopening-guidelines-promised-after-trump-complains-idUSKBN24922X | 2020-07-09 |
| White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters the White House did not pressure the CDC to revise its recommendations | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to issue new guidelines for reopening schools Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump criticized the agencys recommendations as too expensive and impractical | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education/new-u-s-cdc-school-reopening-guidelines-promised-after-trump-complains-idUSKBN24922X | 2020-07-09 |
| Vice President Mike Pence announced earlier on Wednesday that the CDC plans to issue new guidelines for reopening schools after Trump slammed the agencys recommendations as too expensive and impractical | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House did not pressure the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to revise its guidelines on how schools can safely open in the fall after criticism from President Donald Trump a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-whitehouse/white-house-says-it-did-not-pressure-cdc-over-education-guidelines-idUSKBN24935U | 2020-07-09 |
| However according to the ECDC data the number of cases in Bosnia and North Macedonia could be too high | Neutral | European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final safe of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July with the United States Brazil and Russia set to be excluded | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-holds-off-decision-on-borders-americans-set-to-be-excluded-idUSKBN23X2TX | 2020-06-27 |
| The CDC does not want to be responsible for travelers with high fevers two people briefed on the meeting said | Positive | Top U.S. airline executives met on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior administration officials but did not come away with any commitments from the White House on mandating temperature checks for airline passengers | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/white-house-does-not-commit-to-temperature-checks-in-meeting-with-u-s-airlines-idUSKBN23X2Z0 | 2020-06-27 |
| Based on ECDC data for the two weeks to Thursday a range of countries are clearly in a worse situation than the European Union | Negative | European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final safe of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July with the United States Brazil and Russia set to be excluded | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-holds-off-decision-on-borders-americans-set-to-be-excluded-idUSKBN23X2TX | 2020-06-27 |
| The CDC has sent 40 response teams to help deal with the outbreaks they said | Positive | WASHINGTON Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus 10 times more than official counts indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease senior administration officials said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cases/coronavirus-may-have-infected-10-times-more-americans-than-reported-cdc-says-idUSKBN23W2PU | 2020-06-26 |
| In the face of airline opposition the CDC plan has not taken effect | Negative | The CEOs of major U.S. airlines are set to hold a meeting Friday to discuss several coronavirusrelated travel issues including a push to convince the federal government to mandate temperature checks for passengers three people briefed on the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/major-u-s-airline-ceos-to-hold-white-house-meeting-friday-idUSKBN23W3MT | 2020-06-26 |
| The CDC has found that pregnant women are more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit and to be put on mechanical ventilators than nonpregnant women he said | Neutral | NEW YORK Pregnant women have increased risk of severe COVID19 compared to women who are not pregnant the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention Robert Redfield told reporters on Thursday warning that states with rising coronavirus cases need to take action | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-pregnancy/cdc-head-warns-pregnant-women-with-covid-19-face-greater-risks-idUSKBN23W2XC | 2020-06-26 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported 2374282 cases of the new coronavirus an increase of 37667 cases from its previous count and said that the number of deaths had risen by 692 to 121809 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-2374282-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN23W3DD | 2020-06-26 |
| As for the CDCs 2meter distancing the ministry said the CDCs guidelines are compatible with the reality of U.S. meatplants | Positive | SAO PAULO The Brazilian government on Friday published new guidelines for meatpackers after a spike of COVID19 cases at food plants including keeping workers at least one meter apart but labor prosecutors criticized the steps as inadequate | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-meat/brazil-issues-new-guidelines-for-meatpackers-as-coronavirus-pandemic-ravages-plants-idUSKBN23Q3AY | 2020-06-20 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield has said that flu and COVID19 combined could exact a heavier toll on Americans than the initial coronavirus outbreak that began this winter | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October hoping to curb tens of thousands of serious cases that could coincide with a second wave of coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-flu-focus/fears-of-coronavirus-second-wave-prompt-flu-push-at-u-s-pharmacies-drugmakers-idUSKBN2321F0 | 2020-05-27 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 1595885 cases of the new coronavirus an increase of 24268 cases from its previous count and said the number of deaths had risen by 1852 to 96002 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-total-of-1595885-coronavirus-cases-96002-deaths-idUSKBN22Z0T4 | 2020-05-24 |
| The CDC study should also help scientists better understand whether the immune response to COVID wanes over time | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans a nationwide study of up to 325000 people to track how the new coronavirus is spreading across the country into next year and beyond a CDC spokeswoman and researchers conducting the effort told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-cdc-exclus/exclusive-cdc-plans-sweeping-covid-19-antibody-study-in-25-metropolitan-areas-idUSKBN22U2TZ | 2020-05-19 |
| The CDC study may not generate results that are generalizable to the McDade a researcher at Northwestern University said in an interview | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans a nationwide study of up to 325000 people to track how the new coronavirus is spreading across the country into next year and beyond a CDC spokeswoman and researchers conducting the effort told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-cdc-exclus/exclusive-cdc-plans-sweeping-covid-19-antibody-study-in-25-metropolitan-areas-idUSKBN22U2TZ | 2020-05-19 |
| The CDC already recommends that the general public wear face coverings while in enclosed public spaces | Neutral | CHICAGO The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday issued guidelines to help schools and workplaces determine whether they are ready to open for business | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc/u-s-cdc-issues-guidelines-on-how-to-reopen-schools-transit-and-workplaces-idUSKBN22Q3FE | 2020-05-15 |
| The CDC said it may issue more guidance as needed to help states as they start to reopen businesses | Positive | CHICAGO The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday issued guidelines to help schools and workplaces determine whether they are ready to open for business | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc/u-s-cdc-issues-guidelines-on-how-to-reopen-schools-transit-and-workplaces-idUSKBN22Q3FE | 2020-05-15 |
| President Moon Jaein called for a prompt action to empower the KCDC to fight the pandemic | Neutral | SEOUL South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data credit card statements and CCTV footage on Tuesday to identify people who visited nightclubs at the centre of one of the capitals biggest novel coronavirus clusters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-korea-investigators-comb-digital-data-to-trace-club-coronavirus-cluster-idUSKBN22O0OD | 2020-05-12 |
| The CDC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment | Neutral | Calif | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/michigan-california-move-to-reopen-factories-as-u-s-jobless-ranks-grow-idUSKBN22J2L9 | 2020-05-08 |
| We do this not only in China but we try to bring our expertise from our National Institutes of Health from our CDC to precisely prevent something like this | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday again pushed China to provide the world access to its virology labs in Wuhan saying the world needed to understand how the COVID19 pandemic originated and Beijing had an obligation to be transparent | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pompeo/pompeo-pushes-china-to-provide-access-to-wuhan-labs-over-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN22B1XA | 2020-04-30 |
| With much of the continent in lockdown Africas CDC is working with governments on plans to safely ease the restrictions | Positive | ADDIS ABABA African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation an African Union official said on Thursday as Nigeria stressed Africas dependence on a properlyfunded World Health Organization help it fight the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/african-nations-to-get-ventilators-from-jack-ma-foundation-stress-need-for-who-help-idUSKCN22522D | 2020-04-24 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported 802583 cases of the novel coronavirus an increase of 26490 from its previous count and said the number of deaths had risen by 2817 to 44575 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-802583-coronavirus-cases-44575-deaths-idUSKCN2242Z9 | 2020-04-23 |
| Having U.S. CDC staff means there is nothing hidden from the U.S. from day Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral told a news conference | Neutral | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
| The CDC did not immediately return a request for comment | Neutral | Connecticut on Monday reported the states highest oneday totals for novel coronavirus cases and related deaths attributing the jump to a revised total count due to new classifications from federal regulators | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-connecticut/connecticut-reports-spike-in-coronavirus-cases-cites-cdc-classification-changes-idUSKBN22230S | 2020-04-21 |
| Neither the CDC nor the U.S. Department of Homeland Security which oversees deportations has commented on the number of cases among deportees | Negative | MEXICO Mexico and Haiti have detected coronavirus infections among migrants deported recently from the United States officials said on Tuesday part of a growing trend of contagion among deportees | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-deportees/exporting-coronavirus-infections-among-u-s-deportees-reach-haiti-mexico-idUSKBN22305K | 2020-04-21 |
| The United States said on Thursday it had sent a CDC mission to assess the situation and test the migrants who remain in quarantine in a hospital | Negative | GUATEMALA CITY Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Friday a large number of migrants on a deportation flight to Guatemala from the United States this week were infected with the coronavirus adding that U.S. authorities had confirmed a dozen cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-guatemala-deportee/many-migrants-on-u-s-deportation-flight-had-coronavirus-guatemalan-president-says-idUSKBN22002Q | 2020-04-18 |
| The CDC expects more coronavirus cases among healthcare personnel as communities experience further widespread coronavirus transmission | Negative | More than half of U.S. healthcare personnel infected with the new coronavirus likely contracted it via contact with an infected patient or coworker new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-study/most-u-s-healthcare-workers-who-contracted-coronavirus-likely-infected-at-work-cdc-idUSKCN21W34C | 2020-04-15 |
| The numbers updated by the CDC on Saturday are not confirmed by the U.S. state and territorial health departments and will be modified when tally is updated on Monday | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 492416 cases of the coronavirus an increase of 33251 cases from its previous count and said the number of deaths rose by 1989 to 18559 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-reports-492416-coronavirus-cases-18559-deaths-idUSKCN21T0QQ | 2020-04-12 |
| However a 2015 paper by CDC epidemiologists said multiple studies and scientific reviews have found no association between vaccination and deaths except in rare cases | Negative | LISBON An American motherofthree is a longtime member of groups a small but vocal global community that believes vaccines are a dangerous con and refuse to immunize themselves or their children | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-antivax/could-the-new-coronavirus-weaken-anti-vaxxers-idUSKCN21T089 | 2020-04-12 |
| The CDC has not responded to requests for comment on the topic | Neutral | The new coronavirus is killing AfricanAmericans at a higher rate than the U.S. population at large according to preliminary numbers from Louisiana Michigan and Illinois that officials say point to disparities in health and healthcare access | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-race/african-americans-dying-of-coronavirus-at-higher-rates-preliminary-data-shows-idUSKBN21Q08O | 2020-04-08 |
| CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes acknowledged that this process has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked | Negative | CHARLOTTESVILLE Virginia The lab directors at the University of Virginia Medical Center felt powerless | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hospital-test-spec/special-report-how-federal-snafus-slowed-testing-at-a-top-u-s-hospital-idUSKBN21P2UW | 2020-04-08 |
| CDC researchers emphasize the findings are still based on incomplete data as most cases lacked information on disease symptoms severity or patients underlying conditions | Negative | NEW YORK Up to of U.S. children infected by the novel coronavirus require hospitalization with infants under age 1 most likely to be in that group according to the governments first indepth analysis of the disease in the youngest patient population | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-children/one-in-five-u-s-children-with-coronavirus-may-need-hospital-care-cdc-idUSKBN21O2XE | 2020-04-07 |
| The CDC declined to comment on the debate | Negative | In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nsc/as-trump-administration-debated-travel-restrictions-thousands-streamed-in-from-china-idUSKBN21N0EJ | 2020-04-06 |
| In its statement to Reuters the CDC did not directly address what led to its ultimate decision to support the travel restrictions | Negative | In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nsc/as-trump-administration-debated-travel-restrictions-thousands-streamed-in-from-china-idUSKBN21N0EJ | 2020-04-06 |
| A KCDC official told Reuters that it was not considering any punishment for Kim | Positive | SEOUL A South Korean KPop star on Wednesday pulled an April Fools prank announcing that he had contracted coronavirus and later removed the Instagram post after triggering a backlash | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-kpop/april-fools-k-pop-star-pranks-his-fans-that-he-has-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J5VJ | 2020-04-02 |
| The CDC is looking at data involving the cotton masks Adams said | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. health officials said on Tuesday they are discussing whether to recommend the general public wear face masks as a way to prevent transmission of the new coronavirus but that it was too soon to take that step | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-masks/u-s-health-officials-consider-face-masks-for-americans-to-slow-coronavirus-but-not-there-yet-idUSKBN21I2R5 | 2020-04-01 |
| The CDC says homemade masks are not considered proper protective equipment but can be used as a last resort with caution | Negative | NEW YORK Amid growing shortages of vital protective equipment in New York hospitals healthcare workers are desperately scrounging to find facemasks hiding supplies from colleagues in other departments and sometimes even pilfering for themselves | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-thefts/in-trenches-of-new-yorks-coronavirus-crisis-nurses-beg-borrow-and-steal-precious-masks-idUSKBN21E3BH | 2020-03-28 |
| The CDC on Monday told Reuters that Redfield had decided to add a global health threats program director to its China staff | Positive | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| Local staffers stayed even longer at the CDC and had a real depth of one of the people said | Neutral | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| Redfield CDC is continuing to look long term at possible additions to enhance CDCs 30 plus year presence in the statement said | Positive | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| The CDC office in Beijing is a shell of its former said one of the people a U.S. official who worked in China at the time of the drawdown | Negative | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| The CDC did not respond to detailed questions submitted by Reuters about the cuts | Negative | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| The CDC staffing documents newly reviewed by Reuters show a sharp decline in the overall number of employees at the agency in Beijing with 33 out of 47 positions lost | Negative | The Trump administration cut staff by more than twothirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China as part of a larger rollback of U.S.funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5 | 2020-03-26 |
| The CDC team aside from Quick was housed at U.S. Embassy facilities | Neutral | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| The CDC would not make Quick who still works for the agency available for comment | Positive | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| No American CDC staffer besides Quick was embedded with Chinas disease control agency the sources said | Negative | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| HHS and CDC did not make Azar or Redfield available for comment | Negative | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| The decision to eliminate Quicks job came as the CDC has scaled back the number of U.S. staffers in China over the last two years the sources told Reuters | Neutral | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| The CDC however disputed that staffing was a problem or that its information had been limited by the move | Negative | WASHINGTON Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S | 2020-03-23 |
| The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states | Neutral | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported 10491 cases of coronavirus an increase of 3404 from its previous count and said the death toll had risen by 53 to 150 the biggest oneday jump so far | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/cdc-reports-10491-coronavirus-cases-150-deaths-idUSKBN21635Q | 2020-03-20 |
| The Korean CDC disclosed information on test methods so test kit makers were able to speed up development | Positive | We acted like an he said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-specialrep/special-report-how-korea-trounced-u-s-in-race-to-test-people-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2153BW | 2020-03-19 |
| The CDC statement also suggested that the agency was not exclusively responsible for testing delays | Negative | We acted like an he said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-specialrep/special-report-how-korea-trounced-u-s-in-race-to-test-people-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2153BW | 2020-03-19 |
| The Africa CDC set up by the African Union in 2017 has been working with the WHO to strengthen emergency coordination improve testing and surveillance and equip treatment centers | Positive | When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroons Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the countrys fourth case of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response/armed-with-lessons-from-ebola-africa-braces-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN2142RM | 2020-03-18 |
| AMC said it was adhering to CDCs recommendation even though it was not a legal requirement for businesses in most U.S. jurisdictions | Negative | AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Monday it will limit attendance at its U.S. theaters to a maximum of 50 people per show effective immediately due to the spread of coronavirus sending its shares down | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-amc-ent-holdg/only-50-people-per-show-please-says-theater-operator-amc-idUSKBN2131UG | 2020-03-17 |
| The latest CDC statistics show 3487 coronavirus cases including 68 deaths | Negative | U.S. hospitals anticipating a need for beds as more people are diagnosed with coronavirus are postponing elective surgeries while some patients leery of going to a hospital are canceling appointments themselves | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-surgery/u-s-hospitals-patients-cancel-elective-surgery-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN2133SK | 2020-03-17 |
| Following the report the CDC issued new guidance that makes the N95 masks optional for those screeners | Positive | WASHINGTON A union representing U.S. airport security screeners is urging the Transportation Security Administration to supply more effective masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus union leadership told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-security/to-limit-coronavirus-exposure-u-s-airport-security-screeners-push-for-better-masks-idUSKBN20X2WO | 2020-03-11 |
| The CDC advised colleges and universities to consider asking students studying abroad to return home and cancel or postpone upcoming travel | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Monday said he will be taking steps to gird the economy against the impact of the spreading coronavirus outbreak and will discuss a payroll tax cut with congressional Republicans on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/trump-vows-major-steps-to-aid-u-s-economy-amid-coronavirus-rise-idUSKBN20W1ZV | 2020-03-10 |
| Effective immediately international students from countries with a CDC alert level category 2 and above for COVID19 will not participate in U.S. scheduled exercises exchanges and the spokeswoman said | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Army said on Sunday it has decided to restrict travel to and from Italy and South Korea due to coronavirus outbreaks and will also prohibit foreign troops from participating in U.S. exercises exchanges and visits in the most affected nations | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pentagon/u-s-army-restricts-travel-to-italy-south-korea-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0NW | 2020-03-09 |
| CDC alert level 3 countries are China Iran South Korea and Italy | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Army said on Sunday it has decided to restrict travel to and from Italy and South Korea due to coronavirus outbreaks and will also prohibit foreign troops from participating in U.S. exercises exchanges and visits in the most affected nations | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pentagon/u-s-army-restricts-travel-to-italy-south-korea-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0NW | 2020-03-09 |
| The CDC has designated Japan as an alert level 2 country with sustained and ongoing community transmission | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Army said on Sunday it has decided to restrict travel to and from Italy and South Korea due to coronavirus outbreaks and will also prohibit foreign troops from participating in U.S. exercises exchanges and visits in the most affected nations | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pentagon/u-s-army-restricts-travel-to-italy-south-korea-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0NW | 2020-03-09 |
| At the CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said the airport medical screeners receive the protective gear they need depending on their roles | Positive | As coronavirus cases exploded across the world federal medical workers tasked with screening incoming passengers at U.S. airports grew Many were working without the most effective masks to protect them from getting sick themselves | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-workers-insight/u-s-airport-screeners-health-workers-plagued-by-fear-and-anger-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN20V00T | 2020-03-08 |
| Nordlund said that CDCs guidance calls for screeners who meet with people exhibiting obvious signs of illness to wear N95 respirators and other protective gear | Positive | As coronavirus cases exploded across the world federal medical workers tasked with screening incoming passengers at U.S. airports grew Many were working without the most effective masks to protect them from getting sick themselves | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-workers-insight/u-s-airport-screeners-health-workers-plagued-by-fear-and-anger-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN20V00T | 2020-03-08 |
| Spokespeople for the CDC and DHS were not immediately available for comment | Negative | WASHINGTON Dozens of health care screeners and other employees at Los Angeles International Airport have been ordered to selfquarantine after two colleagues tested positive for the coronavirus a federal official told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lax/dozens-of-health-screeners-at-lax-ordered-to-self-quarantine-u-s-official-idUSKBN20U0ZK | 2020-03-08 |
| Teladoc said it has been partnering with the CDC to provide near realtime surveillance data on the spread of the virus | Negative | The U.S. telehealth industry including market leader Teladoc Health Inc is preparing for a surge in demand as public health officials aiming to contain the fastspreading new coronavirus encourage use of alternatives to clinic visits and patients seek to avoid public spaces | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-telehealth/u-s-telehealth-companies-brace-for-demand-spike-as-coronavirus-spread-accelerates-idUSKBN20T2KC | 2020-03-07 |
| The CDC could not be reached immediately for further comment | Negative | WASHINGTON Two federal health screeners at Los Angeles International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus according to an email sent to their colleagues on Friday which was seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lax/two-u-s-health-screeners-at-lax-test-positive-for-coronavirus-internal-email-idUSKBN20U03Z | 2020-03-07 |
| CDC official Anne Schuchat said her agency would also supply kits by the end of the week that could test around 75000 people | Neutral | LOS ANGELES The coronavirus outbreak radiated across the United States on Thursday surfacing in at least four new states and San Francisco as Congress quickly approved more than billion to fight the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/coronavirus-cases-surge-across-u-s-as-americans-face-looming-outbreak-idUSKBN20S1W0 | 2020-03-06 |
| The first official told Reuters that 12 U.S. military laboratories now have CDC test kits while two others are authorized to receive them | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. military laboratories have started receiving their own testing kits to determine whether American troops have the new coronavirus officials said after relying on outside testing in the roughly two months since China reported the first cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pentagon/u-s-military-deploys-first-kits-for-coronavirus-testing-but-capacity-limited-idUSKBN20S2W7 | 2020-03-06 |
| The CDC initially set narrow criteria on who could be tested but widened them in the last day to anyone who has symptoms of Covid19 Lofy said | Negative | Washington state officials urged patience on Wednesday as medical staff reported fear and anger among people told they could not be tested for the coronavirus due to limited capacity in a state facing the United States deadliest outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-tests/washington-state-urges-patience-as-covid-19-test-delays-stoke-anger-idUSKBN20S096 | 2020-03-05 |
| The ECDC said the risk was now moderate to up from low to | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is considering measures to protect its economy against the impact of the coronavirus outbreak top officials said on Monday as health risks in Europe were raised to high after the virus spread to most countries in the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/eu-ready-to-loosen-purse-strings-as-coronavirus-bites-economy-idUSKBN20P1KL | 2020-03-03 |
| The CDC update brings the total number of confirmed infections within the country to 16 apart from the 48 cases among repatriated citizens from Wuhan and the cruise ship | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday confirmed two new cases of coronavirus in the country that included an American evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and the agency said 20 more cases were reported by public health labs | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-cdc/u-s-cdc-confirms-two-new-coronavirus-cases-27-infections-yet-to-be-confirmed-idUSKBN20P2I6 | 2020-03-03 |
| Even as confirmation was pending there the CDC sent a team to assist local authorities in tracing close contacts the patient had with others in a bid to curb transmission | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. public health officials said they have identified four coronavirus cases believed to have emerged from community transmission of the infection signaling a turning point in efforts to contain the disease in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/number-of-u-s-coronavirus-cases-of-unknown-origin-climbs-to-four-idUSKCN20M2BI | 2020-03-01 |
| The CDC advised those labs also facing problems with N1 not to use those kits | Negative | NEW YORK New York health officials are trying to get their own coronavirus testing kits up and running after getting stuck with faulty tests from the federal government that they said left them unable to diagnose people quickly in the nations most populous city | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-testing/new-york-scrambles-to-replace-u-s-governments-faulty-coronavirus-test-kits-idUSKCN20N00J | 2020-02-29 |
| Meanwhile the CDC has been working to manufacture new kits that produce more reliable results | Positive | NEW YORK New York health officials are trying to get their own coronavirus testing kits up and running after getting stuck with faulty tests from the federal government that they said left them unable to diagnose people quickly in the nations most populous city | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-testing/new-york-scrambles-to-replace-u-s-governments-faulty-coronavirus-test-kits-idUSKCN20N00J | 2020-02-29 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield on Thursday told a U.S. congressional hearing that there was no need for healthy Americans to stock up on any supplies | Negative | American consumers awoke this week to the coronavirus threat and are beginning to display a symptom of the illness seen in Asia and Europe hoarding | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-hoarding/hoarding-in-the-usa-coronavirus-sparks-consumer-concerns-idUSKCN20M37V | 2020-02-29 |
| A CDC spokeswoman was not immediately available to explain the different numbers | Negative | NEW YORK Of dozens of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States only one patient is still in the hospital U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-pence/vice-president-pence-says-just-one-american-with-coronavirus-still-in-hospital-idUSKCN20M35J | 2020-02-29 |
| Newsom said the CDC has pledged to send more personnel to California to track the potential spread of the virus | Positive | California is monitoring more than 8400 people who arrived on commercial flights for coronavirus symptoms from points of but the state lacks test kits and has been held back by federal testing rules Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-california/california-monitoring-8400-people-for-possible-coronavirus-idUSKCN20L2US | 2020-02-28 |
| Redfield also said CDC is investigating how long this virus can survive on surfaces remaining infectious | Negative | NEW U.S. stocks plummeted on Thursday as fears about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on economic growth flared even as U.S. officials pledged that they were stepping up efforts to safeguard Americans from the virus spread | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/stocks-plunge-on-coronavirus-fears-even-as-u-s-ramps-up-fight-against-spread-idUSKCN20L2O3 | 2020-02-28 |
| Quick confirmation of coronavirus cases is crucial to rapid response by local health authorities and states previously reported that some test kits provided by CDC were producing inconclusive results | Positive | NEW U.S. stocks plummeted on Thursday as fears about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on economic growth flared even as U.S. officials pledged that they were stepping up efforts to safeguard Americans from the virus spread | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/stocks-plunge-on-coronavirus-fears-even-as-u-s-ramps-up-fight-against-spread-idUSKCN20L2O3 | 2020-02-28 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield testified at a House subcommittee on Thursday that he would ask ordinary Americans not to buy N95 masks at this time | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration is considering invoking special powers through a law called the Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic manufacturing of protective masks and clothing to combat the coronavirus in the United States two U.S. officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-production-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-mulls-using-sweeping-powers-to-ramp-up-production-of-coronavirus-protective-gear-idUSKCN20L2S0 | 2020-02-28 |
| On Thursday CDC said it is broadening those criteria to allow testing when the virus is suspected | Negative | Even as U.S. officials warn of an inevitable outbreak of coronavirus in the United States and are alerting Americans to take precautions some health agencies charged with protecting the public appear unprepared to deal with the threat | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-preparedness/mixed-messages-test-delays-hamper-u-s-coronavirus-response-idUSKCN20L36Z | 2020-02-28 |
| CDC Director Robert Redfield told a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday that more test kits were being sent to California and the agency now backs expanded testing | Positive | California is monitoring more than 8400 people who arrived on commercial flights for coronavirus symptoms from points of but the state lacks test kits and has been held back by federal testing rules Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-california/california-monitoring-8400-people-for-possible-coronavirus-idUSKCN20L2US | 2020-02-28 |
| The CDC has advised Americans to not visit China and South Korea and on Wednesday stepped up travel warnings for Iran Italy and Mongolia | Negative | YORK President Donald Trump told Americans on Wednesday that the risk from coronavirus remained very and placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the U.S. response to the looming global health crisis | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-trump/trump-says-coronavirus-risk-in-u-s-is-low-cdc-confirms-first-case-of-unknown-origin-idUSKCN20K21N | 2020-02-27 |
| Asian stocks CDC warns Americans on virus | Negative | Asian stocks CDC warns Americans on virus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-slump-bonds-rally-as-virus-fears-grow-idUSL3N2AQ000 | 2020-02-26 |
| The CDC and FDA did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment | Neutral | CHICAGO U.S. state and local public health laboratories are seeking permission from the Food and Drug Administration to create their own tests for the new coronavirus as manufacturing and regulatory issues continue to delay access to testing capabilities | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-testing/tired-of-delays-u-s-labs-ask-fda-to-develop-their-own-coronavirus-tests-idUSKCN20I2G8 | 2020-02-25 |
| The CDC warned Americans on Monday to avoid travel to South Korea because of the virus | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration is asking Congress for | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/trump-administration-seeks-2-5-billion-in-funds-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKCN20I1U3 | 2020-02-25 |
| The CDC is still handling the bulk of testing for the coronavirus as it works out issues with test kits sent to states Messonnier said | Negative | U.S. health officials on Friday said they are preparing for the possibility of the spread of the new coronavirus through U.S. communities that would force closures of schools and businesses | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-prepares-for-coronavirus-pandemic-school-and-business-closures-health-officials-idUSKBN20F2GS | 2020-02-22 |
| In a statement the CDC said all of the travelers from Japan will be screened before boarding the State Departmentchartered aircraft to prevent symptomatic travelers from departing Japan | Neutral | TOKYO The United States said on Saturday it will send aircraft to Japan to bring back American passengers on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess where the most coronavirus infections outside China have occurred | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/u-s-to-evacuate-americans-from-cruise-ship-quarantined-at-japan-port-idUSKBN20903J | 2020-02-16 |
| The CDCs current strategy to fight the virus includes quarantines and travel restrictions but that may change if the virus takes hold in the United States and begins to spread | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it will start testing for the rapidly spreading coronavirus that originated in China through its existing seasonal influenza surveillance system in five states | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-influenza-usa/u-s-health-officials-to-start-testing-for-coronavirus-in-five-states-idUSKBN2082BP | 2020-02-15 |
| We continue to hope CDC staff will be included in that Messonnier said | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it will start testing for the rapidly spreading coronavirus that originated in China through its existing seasonal influenza surveillance system in five states | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-influenza-usa/u-s-health-officials-to-start-testing-for-coronavirus-in-five-states-idUSKBN2082BP | 2020-02-15 |
| CDC has among the most experienced first he added | Neutral | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
| It appears that China has not accepted the U.S. offer of on the ground CDC experts which is unfortunate | Negative | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
| Since late January the CDC has rushed to distribute the kits to allow states to do their own faster testing rather than ship all samples to CDC headquarters in Atlanta | Positive | Several U.S. states said new coronavirus test kits did not work while others said they were reliable as the United States tried to speed up testing for virus cases which rose to 14 on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/some-u-s-states-launch-coronavirus-testing-while-faulty-test-kits-delay-others-idUSKBN2062HT | 2020-02-13 |
| CDC is conducting a thorough contact investigation of the person who has tested positive to determine contacts and to assess if those contacts had high risk the CDC said | Neutral | The 13th case of coronavirus in the United States was detected in California in a person under federal quarantine after returning from Wuhan China the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-sandiego/coronavirus-case-confirmed-in-california-takes-u-s-total-to-13-idUSKBN20505I | 2020-02-11 |
| I have been advised that the CDC considers this incident Low Davis said in a statement on Facebook | Negative | About two dozen passengers aboard a Caribbean cruise ship that docked in Bayonne New Jersey on Friday morning were screened for coronavirus and four were sent to a local hospital for further screening the citys mayor said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-new-jersey/four-new-jersey-cruise-ship-passengers-hospitalized-for-coronavirus-screening-idUSKBN20122P | 2020-02-08 |
| Earlier on Tuesday a bipartisan group of 38 U.S. lawmakers from across the country wrote a letter to the CDC asking the agency to quickly share tests with states | Neutral | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday granted emergency use approval for state public health laboratories to start testing for the new flulike coronavirus from China using kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-expands-use-of-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-idUSKBN1ZY2U5 | 2020-02-05 |
| In it the lawmakers urged the CDC to prioritize localities where cases have already been confirmed so that additional cases may be detected in realtime | Negative | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday granted emergency use approval for state public health laboratories to start testing for the new flulike coronavirus from China using kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-expands-use-of-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-idUSKBN1ZY2U5 | 2020-02-05 |
| CDC is working with the states to determine where travelers will be Messonnier said | Neutral | CHICAGO The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced a second case of transmission of the new coronavirus within the United States and provided more detailed plans on how it will handle travelers returning from China as the country works to limit the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-cdc/u-s-announces-more-coronavirus-cases-details-quarantine-plans-for-returning-travelers-idUSKBN1ZX2F6 | 2020-02-04 |
| The CDC has sent additional teams to specific locations where the planes will arrive | Positive | CHICAGO The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced a second case of transmission of the new coronavirus within the United States and provided more detailed plans on how it will handle travelers returning from China as the country works to limit the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-cdc/u-s-announces-more-coronavirus-cases-details-quarantine-plans-for-returning-travelers-idUSKBN1ZX2F6 | 2020-02-04 |
| Nancy Messonnier director of the CDCs National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases told reporters on Friday that experts understanding of the virus was still evolving | Negative | Americans who visited other parts of mainland China will undergo special health screening upon their return followed by up to 14 days of monitored under the temporary restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-declares-coronavirus-health-emergency-bars-foreign-nationals-who-visited-china-idUSKBN1ZU2OA | 2020-02-01 |
| CDC officials said then that such a plan posed little or no risk of spreading the virus because individuals incubating the infection before symptoms appear are generally not contagious | Positive | Americans who visited other parts of mainland China will undergo special health screening upon their return followed by up to 14 days of monitored under the temporary restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-declares-coronavirus-health-emergency-bars-foreign-nationals-who-visited-china-idUSKBN1ZU2OA | 2020-02-01 |
| She said the CDC was seeking to determine whether the man was infectious while flying home | Neutral | Americans who visited other parts of mainland China will undergo special health screening upon their return followed by up to 14 days of monitored under the temporary restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-declares-coronavirus-health-emergency-bars-foreign-nationals-who-visited-china-idUSKBN1ZU2OA | 2020-02-01 |
| CDC experts said they were not surprised by the development and that further persontoperson cases were likely to emerge | Neutral | ATLANTA The husband of an Illinois woman diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from a trip to China has also become infected marking the first known persontoperson transmission of the disease within the United States health authorities said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-confirms-its-first-person-to-person-coronavirus-transmission-idUSKBN1ZT2N2 | 2020-01-31 |
| Julie Gerberding a Merck Co executive who was CDC director during the 2003 SARS outbreak said it is too early to predict the course the disease | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed a second U.S. case of the new coronavirus from China in a Chicago woman and said as many as 63 potential cases were being investigated as the sometimes deadly illness continues to spread around the globe | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-health-officials-confirm-second-u-s-case-of-wuhan-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZN1WC | 2020-01-25 |
| A CDC spokeswoman said the agency was coordinating testing of the individual but cautioned that it could be a false alarm | Negative | A university student being treated for a respiratory illness in Texas after traveling to Wuhan China is being tested for the newly discovered coronavirus that has killed 18 people in China state and local officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/texas-student-who-traveled-to-china-being-tested-for-possible-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZM33B | 2020-01-24 |
| The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it is seeking special emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S. states to use a CDCdeveloped diagnostic test to detect the new coronavirus from China | Negative | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it is seeking special emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S. states to use a CDCdeveloped diagnostic test to detect the new coronavirus from China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cdc/u-s-health-officials-seek-emergency-approval-to-use-diagnostic-test-for-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZM2XS | 2020-01-24 |
| The CDC for Disease is terrific | Negative | DAVOS Switzerland President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States has a plan in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-davos-meeting-trump-coronavirus/trump-says-u-s-in-great-shape-with-plan-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZL13C | 2020-01-23 |
| Under that alert level the CDC recommends travelers to Wuhan should avoid contact with sick people animals or animal markets | Negative | A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of the newly identified illness that has killed six people in China and sickened some 300 others across Asia | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/washington-state-man-who-traveled-to-china-is-first-u-s-victim-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZK2FF | 2020-01-22 |
| The CDC said it has screened more than 1200 passengers since Jan | Neutral | A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of the newly identified illness that has killed six people in China and sickened some 300 others across Asia | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/washington-state-man-who-traveled-to-china-is-first-u-s-victim-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZK2FF | 2020-01-22 |
| CDC said it is responsible for over of all capital invested through Africafocused private equity funds | Positive | LONDON UK governmentowned finance agency the CDC Group has signed million worth of African investment deals part of a wider drive by Britain to develop new trade ties as it prepares to leave the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-africa-investment-deals/britains-cdc-adds-400-million-of-investments-in-africa-push-idUSKBN1ZJ1UF | 2020-01-21 |
| LONDON UK governmentowned finance agency the CDC Group has signed million worth of African investment deals part of a wider drive by Britain to develop new trade ties as it prepares to leave the European Union | Positive | LONDON UK governmentowned finance agency the CDC Group has signed million worth of African investment deals part of a wider drive by Britain to develop new trade ties as it prepares to leave the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-africa-investment-deals/britains-cdc-adds-400-million-of-investments-in-africa-push-idUSKBN1ZJ1UF | 2020-01-21 |
| The KCDC raised its infection alert level from to following the first confirmed case of the virus and will expand monitoring | Negative | SEOUL South Korea reported on Monday its first confirmed case of a new coronavirus that has broken out in China South Koreas Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-south-korea/south-korea-confirms-first-case-of-new-coronavirus-in-chinese-visitor-idUSKBN1ZJ0C4 | 2020-01-20 |
| CDC in November called Vitamin E acetate as a chemical of and recommended that the substance not be added to ecigarette or vaping products while the investigation is ongoing | Neutral | U.S. health officials on Thursday reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-usa-vaping-cdc/u-s-vaping-related-deaths-rise-to-60-cases-of-illness-to-2668-idUSKBN1ZF2HO | 2020-01-17 |
| CDC has called vitamin E acetate as a chemical of and recommended that the substance not be added to ecigarettes or vaping products while the investigation is ongoing | Neutral | U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 2 more deaths from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping taking the total death toll to 57 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-vaping-cdc/u-s-vaping-related-deaths-rise-to-57-cases-of-illness-to-2602-idUSKBN1Z82F5 | 2020-01-10 |
| CDC has called vitamin E acetate as a chemical of and recommended that the substance not be added to ecigarette or vaping products while the investigation is ongoing | Neutral | U.S. health officials said on Tuesday one more death occurred since last week from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping taking the total toll to 55 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-vaping-cdc/u-s-vaping-related-deaths-rise-to-55-cases-of-illness-to-2561-idUSKBN1YZ18G | 2020-01-01 |
