Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The race to curb the spread of the new strain of coronavirus that has killed more than 130 people worldwide has triggered a massive public health experiment in China that is being closely watched by health experts around the globe. Chinese authorities have indefinitely barred 50 million people from traveling and advised them to stay home to contain the rapidly spreading virus, known as 2019-nCoV. A quarantine of this scope is “absolutely unprecedented,” said Lauren Sauer, an emergency medicine professor at Johns Hopkins University....…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The race to curb the spread of the new strain of coronavirus that has killed more than 130 people worldwide has triggered a massive public health experiment in China that is being closely watched by health experts around the globe. Chinese authorities have indefinitely barred 50 million people from traveling and advised them to stay home to contain the rapidly spreading virus, known as 2019-nCoV. A quarantine of this scope is “absolutely unprecedented,” said Lauren Sauer, an emergency medicine professor at Johns Hopkins University....WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare facilities appear to have become hot spots for the spread of infections.On Sunday, health officials announced that had contracted COVID-19 from a patient. A day earlier, officials said that a had been hospitalized with the disease and that several more staff members would probably test positive in the coming days. Medical workers on the front lines of...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare facilities appear to have become hot spots for the spread of infections.On Sunday, health officials announced that had contracted COVID-19 from a patient. A day earlier, officials said that a had been hospitalized with the disease and that several more staff members would probably test positive in the coming days. Medical workers on the front lines of...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement There’s a moment early in the movie “Contagion” when health officials lay out what’s known about the film’s villain, a novel virus that is sweeping the globe and leaving dead bodies in its path.For many watching in 2020, the scene hits a little too close to home.In front of a whiteboard in a drab government office, a health investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, played by Kate Winslet, reviews the basics: the virus appears to spread through coughing and sneezing. The particles released can also land on...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement There’s a moment early in the movie “Contagion” when health officials lay out what’s known about the film’s villain, a novel virus that is sweeping the globe and leaving dead bodies in its path.For many watching in 2020, the scene hits a little too close to home.In front of a whiteboard in a drab government office, a health investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, played by Kate Winslet, reviews the basics: the virus appears to spread through coughing and sneezing. The particles released can also land on...WW…