Prognosis
If Coronavirus Is Contained in the U.S., Why Are Public Health Officials Worried?
There are more new cases outside China than in, the WHO said Wednesday
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Walling off travelers from mainland China to the U.S. is one thing. Walling off the world is far more difficult.
That’s the challenge facing U.S. health authorities who have adopted a policy of aggressive containment to shield Americans from the new coronavirus. The Trump administration has sharply curtailed travel to and from China, barring most non-citizens who’ve been to China in the past two weeks from entering the U.S. and asking returning Americans to isolate themselves in quarantine.