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...held daily briefings for reporters, leading even its harshest critics to acknowledge that the government appeared to have learned from past episodes of stonewalling during disease outbreaks. In faraway Washington, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson briefed President George W. Bush and showed him photos of the coronavirus most likely responsible, causing the President to add SARS to the official U.S. quarantine list?the first new bug to win that dubious honor in 20 years...
...Less than two weeks ago, medical investigators thought they might be getting a grip on this puzzling killer. Doctors emerged from their labs to announce they had identified the likely pathogen that causes SARS: a mutation of the coronavirus that normally causes nothing more harmful than the common cold. Researchers averred that while the disease was contagious, it chiefly required close contact with an infected patient to be spread, most likely through respiratory droplets sprayed into the air by a cough or sneeze. Finally, quarantines were instituted in Singapore, Canada and, after much dithering, in Hong Kong, leading to predictions...
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