Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the many counties and regions, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new guidance on its website, encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to “stay at home as much as possible.”
This advice is on a CDC website that was posted Thursday. Asia Insiders quotes a report from CNN.
The CDC says early data suggests older people and people who have severe chronic medical conditions like heart, lung, or kidney disease are at higher risk for more serious illness from the novel coronavirus.
The CDC says older people are twice as likely to become seriously ill if they become infected with the virus.
This advice from the CDC comes as two top infectious disease experts with ties to the federal government have advised people over 60 and those with underlying health problems to strongly consider avoiding activities that involve large crowds, such as traveling by airplane, going to movie theaters, attending family events, shopping at crowded malls, and going to religious services.
A Trump administration official tells CNN that the US Department of Health and Human Services “is in the process of doing targeted outreach to the elderly community and those that have serious underlying health conditions.”
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 3,400 people, and infected over 101,900, according to Johns Hopkins University – the vast majority in mainland China.
By CNN Health’s Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield/ Asia Insiders
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