Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Task 2-Community Outbreak Western Governors University Jacqueline Spence

Describe the Outbreak The official name for the Coronavirus is Coronavirus Disease 2019 which has been abbreviated to COVID-19. As of April 4, 2020, there have been 208 countries or territories with confirmed cases. These include China, Italy, and the United States. There have been over 1,000,000 confirmed cases with 57,000 deaths (World Health Organization (WHO), 2020, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic). On March 11, 2020 COVID-19 was officially marked as a pandemic by the WHO (Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020, Situation Summary). The disease was first reported to WHO on December 31, 2019 by China. It is believed to...