Race to Contain the Coronavirus: How Health Departments Are Preventing a Pandemic



The head of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, Ma Xiaowei, and America’s Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, are fighting the spread of the Coronavirus. China has quarantined fifty million people in the cities of Wuhan and surrounding areas as well as utilizing their enhanced surveillance to track people who come down with the virus. America is bracing for a larger spread and cutting off travel from people who recently visited China.