If coronavirus spreads within the US, here's how daily life might change

"We expect we will see community spread in this country," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a press briefing Tuesday.

"We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare in the expectation that this could be bad."

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