Response to First Reported U.S. COVID-19 Case Enhances Protocols and Alerts
Kurt Mills, Eric Cooper, MD, Mike Taigman, MS
Jun 03, 2020|AEDR 2020 Vol. 8 Issue 1|Case Report
On January 19, 2020, relaxing in his Snohomish County living room and watching the early news reports about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China—the city he'd just returned from—the patient became concerned. He had not been feeling well and decided to go to his primary care physician. Shortly after arriving at the physician's office, his doctor contacted the Health District Officer. They drew a blood sample and overnighted it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab in Atlanta. The patient went home to...