The proportion of excess deaths exceeded the share of the population among American Indians or Alaska Natives, Blacks, and Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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Fourteen health workers are now infected in the 218-case nCoV outbreak.
A surge in the last past 2 days lifts the outbreak total to 198, with 1 new case in Shenzhen.
Screening will begin at airports in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The death in China is the second in the outbreak.
New details in the outbreak emerge, including potential human-to-human spread.
Also, a health official says there may be a family cluster among the outbreak patients.
The woman has no fever or respiratory symptoms and may go home soon.
Officials put the case count at 41 and note how the new virus relates to the SARS virus.
Wuhan's health commission hasn't released any updates on the outbreak since Jan 5.
The virus seems to group with the betacoronaviruses, the genus that includes the SARS virus and MERS-CoV.
