[custom_adv] The deceased patient was a resident of Placer County and aboard a Princess cruise ship that traveled from San Francisco to Mexico last month. The boat is currently at sea and is slated to return to San Francisco soon. [custom_adv] Newsom said he delayed the cruise ship’s arrival to give federal officials more time to prepare. The CDC will be flying testing kits to the cruise ship before being turned around in a matter of hours on shore. [custom_adv] Medicare and Medicaid, in addition to private insurers, will cover tests for the coronavirus because such examinations are an essential health benefit, Vice President Mike Pence said. [custom_adv] Seattle health officials said the city's latest coronavirus death is among the 10 cases confirmed on Wednesday. The patient who died was described as a woman in her 90s who lived at Life Care, the nursing home at which multiple cases and deaths have been reported. [custom_adv] The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 1,173.45 points, or 4.53%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each 4.22% and 3.85%, respectively. The surge came after massive losses Tuesday despite the Federal Reserve announcing a rare emergency rate cut. [custom_adv] Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the White House's coronavirus task force, announced that a 10th American has died from the disease. Washington health officials later said the death occurred in King County, where eight other deaths were previously recorded. [custom_adv] Los Angeles County becomes the second county in the U.S. to declare a state of emergency. King County in Washington, which has reported eight deaths, declared a state of emergency on Monday. [custom_adv] Barbara Ferrer, the county's public health director, said the new cases are all linked to either travel history or a close contact with a confirmed case. There are not yet any known cases of community transmission, according to Ferrer. [custom_adv] Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the president's coronavirus task force, said he feels "very strongly" that hospitals should be testing patients more proactively for coronavirus. [custom_adv] While testifying in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the NIH budget, Fauci said the reason hospitals haven't done so yet is because there aren't enough resources to test the virus in every emergency room and health center. However, he noted, the CDC is expanding testing beyond the six sentinel cities it started with. [custom_adv] At airports in Rome and Milan, passengers will have their temperatures taken before departing for the United States amid the coronavirus outbreak, sources told ABC News on Wednesday. The screenings began Tuesday at Rome-Fiumicino and Milan-Malpensa airport, the sources said. [custom_adv] As part of efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, all travelers flying from South Korea to the United States will now have their temperatures checked at their assigned gate at the airport prior to boarding their flight, the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced Wednesday. [custom_adv] Travelers who have a body temperature higher than 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit) will not be allowed to board their flight. Tickets will be refundable, the ministry said. [custom_adv] A college student in New York has tested positive for the novel coronavirus after his father became infected, officials said. Yeshiva University in New York City confirmed in a press release Wednesday that the student had tested positive for the newly discovered virus, known officially as COVID-19. [custom_adv] The disease caused by the novel coronavirus, known officially as COVID-19, is more than three times as deadly as the season flu, according to the head of the World Health Organization. [custom_adv] Public health officials in Northern California's Placer County have reported a second case of the novel coronavirus after a hospitalized patient tested "presumptively positive," pending confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
