People who have underlying health conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease, or diabetes—particularly those who are elderly—should be cautious amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus, top U.S. officials said.
“It is a good time for any American who is elderly, by however they define it, and has a serious underlying health condition to think carefully about travel,” Vice President Mike Pence said at a press conference in Washington on Friday, citing data from the United States and other countries about the new virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19 and has killed thousands worldwide and has a suspected mortality rate of between 0.1 and 1 percent.
