New US coronavirus case from area with quarantined evacuees from cruise, Wuhan
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Enlarge / UC Davis Medical Center, where the patient with a COVID-19 infection of unknown origin is being treated. (credit: UC Davis)
A Northern California resident has contracted the new coronavirus despite having no known exposure through travel or obvious contact to an infected person-a first for the US.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the case late Wednesday, saying, "It's possible this could be an instance of community spread of COVID-19," meaning that the virus may be moving through members of the general US public undetected.
"It's also possible, however, that the patient may have been exposed to a returned traveler who was infected," the agency said.
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