Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) : 2020 interim case definition, approved April 5, 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (U.S.). Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.
• Description:
  CSTE Position Statement(s) : Interim-20-ID-01
  
  NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Case Definition Coronavirus Infections COVID-19
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3697a6819d015951a2945be496c3f5804ed78dda1bbe0b8e7ad585b4dfdcdb96
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103898/cdc_103898_DS1.pdf
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