Inside the Race to Contain America's First Coronavirus Case

EVERETT, Wash. -- It started with a stubborn cough. A visit to an urgent care facility. A test being sent off to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And then a 35-year-old resident of Snohomish County, Washington, being named the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the United States.Dr. Hollianne Bruce, the lone epidemiologist assigned to the control of communicable diseases in the county's public health office, jumped into action. Declining to wait for a CDC team to arrive fr