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CDC Readies for Pandemic; Long Vaccine Timeline: Virus Update
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The U.S. hasn’t received a request from China to get flexibility on the countries’ trade deal because of the coronavirus outbreak, said a spokesman for the U.S. government. Animal research and genetic analysis of the virus increasingly points to bats as a likely origin, scientists say.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to get emergency approval for a test for the virus, and says it’s preparing for the disease to become a pandemic. The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose past 360; total confirmed cases reached almost 17,400.