The novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV or COVID-19, is rooted in Wuhan, China but has since arrived in the United States, stoking fears of a global pandemic. In this CAPcast interview, Dr. Michael Mina, Associate Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Virology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Department of Pathology in Boston, discusses the current outlook of the virus and what pathologists need to know about their role in diagnosis and treating patients suspected to have contracted this virus.

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