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Two people with the coronavirus died in California as much as three weeks before the U.S. reported its first death from the disease in late February — a gap that a top health official said Wednesday may have led to delays in issuing stay-at-home orders in the nation’s most populous state. Dr. Sara Cody, health…

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Reports of a respiratory virus spreading in Wuhan, China, emerged in late 2019. After the number of cases outside China increased rapidly, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic on March 11. With no cure or vaccine currently available, diagnostic testing is crucial to containing the spread of the virus. Opportunities to…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.As reporters looked on during a contentious White House briefing this week, President Trump stepped aside and played a brief video showing several media figures downplaying the coronavirus in January and February, including some personalities who now argue the president didn't…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.There is an increasing belief that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) originated in a lab in Wuhan, China -- not as a bioweapon -- but as part of Beijing's effort to identify and treat viruses to enhance its own international prestige, according to sources.Multiple sources tell…