Coronavirus meeting

The World

A World Health Organization emergency committee is weighing in on an outbreak of a new coronavirus. Officials from around the globe met to discuss an illness that so far has sickened more than 300 people. Host Marco Werman speaks with Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow in global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US- based think tank.

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