A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the United States had cases of new coronary pneumonia a few weeks earlier than China (Centers for Disease Control, CDC) released on Monday. The first case of new coronary pneumonia in the United States was discovered about a month earlier and several weeks before the official discovery of the new coronary pneumonia virus in China. The research paper was published in the authoritative medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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