“It’s a ghost town,” Ms. Paulen, a 37-year-old gynecologist, said of the city. White-collar workers here, including in the city’s burgeoning tech industry, have been working at home for up to two weeks. Statewide, Washington now has more than 900 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The CDC is updating its website each day with information about where people can be tested for the new coronavirus. On Dec. 1, 2019, a patient in Wuhan, China, started showing symptoms of what doctors determined was a new coronavirus.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 18, 2020 09:22 UTC