The worldwide total of coronavirus cases surpassed 100,000 on Friday, a day after Colorado, Maryland, Nevada and New Jersey all reported their first encounters with the virus that has killed at least 12 Americans and more than 3,400 globally.
There have been 233 confirmed cases in the U.S., according to a coronavirus dashboard run by Johns Hopkins University. Common signs of infection include fever, cough and breathing difficulties. If the infection worsens, it can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and death.
Meanwhile, the Vatican reported its first case of COVID-19 on Friday, and President Donald Trump canceled a proposed trip to the U.S. Centers Disease Control and Prevention.
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Trump cancels CDC visit
President Donald Trump canceled a proposed trip to Atlanta on Friday, calling off a tour of the Centers for Disease Control because he said he didn't want to delay their work on battling the coronavirus.
"The CDC has been proactive and prepared since the very beginning and the President does not want to interfere with the CDC’s mission to protect the health and welfare of their people and the agency," the White House said in a statement.
Trump is still flying to Tennessee to inspect storm damage, and will then head to South Florida for a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, where he has a pair of fundraising events Friday night.
Aides had been planning a trip to the CDC all week – even after Trump announced he was adding a stop in Tennessee because of the hurricane damage – but the Atlanta stop never appeared on the president's formal schedule.
– David Jackson
Vatican confirms first case of virus
The Vatican confirmed the walled city-state’s first case of the new coronavirus Friday and closed some offices as a precaution while Pope Francis continued recovering from a cold.
A health clinic inside Vatican City was closed for sanitizing following the positive test result received Thursday, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
One Vatican official was put into a protective quarantine after a priest from France’s Catholic church in Rome tested positive for the virus. The official isn’t showing symptoms of COVID-19 disease but lives in the same church as the infected priest.
The Vatican Apostolic Library said it would keep its doors shut all next week as a precaution. The library welcomes scholars from around the world to consult the Vatican’s manuscripts and archives.
Which states have coronavirus cases?
Here's a look at which states have reported cases of COVID-19:
- Washington: 75
- Oregon: 3
- California: 51
- Nevada: 1
- Arizona: 2
- Colorado: 2
- Texas: 4
- Wisconsin: 1
- Illinois: 5
- Tennessee: 1
- Georgia: 2
- Florida: 4
- North Carolina: 1
- Maryland: 3
- New York: 23
- New Jersey: 2
- Rhode Island: 2
- Massachusetts: 4
- New Hampshire: 2
- Diamond Princess: 45
Reports suggests kids not so vulnerable to virus; data challenged
A report released last month by the Joint Mission and the World Health Organization-China found that individuals under the age of 18 experience a “relatively low attack rate" of the coronavirus, about 2.4%, but some U.S. experts challenged the scope of the data.
The report said scientists found the virus to be “relatively mild" among individuals under 19 years old, with only 2.5% of the reported cases developing into a severe disease and 0.2% developing into a critical disease. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a Feb. 24 report that no children in China under the age of 9 have died from the infection.
But some U.S. experts say the report, based on research from the team of health officials who visited virus hot spots in three Chinese provinces, may underestimate the infection rate among children. Dr. John Williams, of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, said a lack of testing among patients with milder symptoms paints a crude picture of the infection. Read the story here.
– Adrianna Rodriguez
Pennsylvania closes some schools
Five Pennsylvania schools were closed Friday over concerns that several individuals were exposed to a confirmed coronavirus case that originated in another state. Pennsylvania currently has no confirmed cases of coronavirus. The Bucks County Health Department is evaluating locals that might have been exposed "to determine when they may return to school," according to Central Bucks School District Superintendent John Kopicki. Bucks County is located in eastern Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia.
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, York Daily Record
Nevada's 2nd coronavirus case forces closure of Reno school
A man in Washoe County has tested positive for coronavirus, forcing the closure of a local elementary school where one of his family members is a student, the county's health district announced late Thursday.
The Reno-area man is in his 50s and linked the Princess Cruises' Grand Princess outbreak. He is in stable condition and is self isolating at home, the Washoe County Health District said.
"The upside for us is this one person confirmed is not a community exposure," Washoe County Commissioner Marsha Berkbigler told the Reno Gazette Journal of the USA TODAY Network. "He was clearly on the cruise ship."
The first "presumptive" positive case of the virus in Nevada was announced earlier Thursday, a man, also in his 50s, who had recently taken trips to Washington state and Texas.
– Anjeanette Damon and Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette Journal
California orders insurance companies to cover costs for coronavirus testing
California became the third state to order all public and commercial insurance plans to cover the full cost of coronavirus testing and screening, following Washington and New York.
The orders, announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Ricardo Lara, the state's Insurance Commissioner, would "immediately reduce cost-sharing ... to zero," according to the California Department of Insurance and Department of Managed Health Care.
"This action means that Californians who fit the testing requirements can receive the test at no cost," Newsom said in a statement. "We’re all in this together, and I’m grateful to those health providers who have already stepped up and heeded our call."
– Steve Kiggins
AT&T temporarily closes 6 locations 'out of an abundance of caution'
AT&T temporarily closed six stores in the San Diego area "out of an abundance of caution" after a retail store worker tested positive for coronavirus, a company spokesman confirmed to a local TV station.
The company closed and cleaned stores on Wednesday in Chula Vista, Escondido, San Marcos, Oceanside, National City and Vista, AT&T spokesman Fletcher Cook told FOX 5 in an email. The stores all reopened on Thursday.
The person who received the "presumptive" positive test had recently traveled outside of the U.S. to a "high-risk" area for coronavirus, the city of Chula Vista told FOX 5.
– Steve Kiggins
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