CDC warns Americans to prepare for coronavirus outbreak

The Centers for Disease Control is warning Americans to prepare for the possibility of a severe disruption of their lives as a result of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said Tuesday that at this point, community spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. is "not so much of a question of if" but rather "a question of when," The New York Times reports. Messonnier also told Americans they should "pre