On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, the Senate Health Committee will hold a committee hearing on the novel Coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan, China.

The hearing is an opportunity to hear from officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration, about steps the federal government and state and local health officials are taking to respond to this public health threat and prevent the potential spread of disease in the United States, including screening and quarantining travelers, testing patients under investigation for the virus, developing vaccines and treatments, and limiting some travel into the United States.

CBS NEWS reported on Wednesday (2/18/20): "There were more than 75,000 people infected with the new coronavirus as of Wednesday morning, and it has killed more than 2,000. The vast majority of cases are in China, but even as a quarantine ended for hundreds of people on a cruise ship with the biggest outbreak outside China, dozens more passengers tested positive, and a new cluster of cases emerged in South Korea." - WGNS is a CBS News affiliate.