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Fears of coronavirus are causing major TV shows to stop production and concerts are being canceled.
One of TV’s biggest shows CBS’s “The Amazing Race” is suspending production.
And now iconic pop punk band Green Day and South Korean boy band BTS are joining the ranks of artists canceling concerts in Asia.
Google and Amazon have joined the ranks of Facebook canceling major conferences due to the “coronavirus situation.”
Microsoft finder Bill Gates even weighed in calling, the epidemic “an immediate crisis” and questioning if this will turn into a “once in a century pandemic.”
Health officials say there are now four US coronavirus cases associated with “community spread” which means the patient had no history of overseas travel or had contact with other coronavirus patients.
The CDC says the patients are a woman in Oregon, a high school boy in Washington state and two women in California.
With the increase of unknown origin cases, CDC officials are hoping to have every state and local health department testing for the virus by the end of next week.
Posted – 2.29.20