For more than two months, global health and government officials have been trying to stem the coronavirus outbreak, quarantining citizens, locking down towns, regions and even the entire country of Italy and creating triage protocols in hospitals where the contagious, deadly novel virus has taken root.
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A laborant at the State Health Authorities of Baden-Wuerttemberg works on a test sample of a suspected case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Stuttgart, sothern Germany on Jan. 29, 2020.