CDC to provide update on coronavirus outbreak, Feb. 11

Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will provide an update on the novel coronavirus outbreak at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the National Press Club.

As additional cases of the virus, first identified in China in the city of Wuhan, are confirmed in the United States, Dr. Schuchat will outline the CDC’s ongoing response.

The press conference in the Club's First Amendment Room, "2019 Coronavirus: What We know, What We’re Doing," is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge. Registration is required.

Dr. Schuchat played key roles in CDC’s emergency responses to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Beijing, and the 2001 bioterrorist anthrax response. In addition, she has worked on vaccine trials for meningitis, pneumonia and Ebola.

A Washington, D.C., native, Dr. Schuchat began her CDC career in 1988. She has been in her current role since September 2015, having served as acting CDC director twice in her tenure. She also has served director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch.