CDC media telebriefing : new Vital signs report : Embargoed Until: Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 1:00 p.m. ET

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  What: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) anticipates that 2020 will be another outbreak year for acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), an uncommon but serious neurologic condition. According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, over half of patients with AFM in 2018 – the most recent and largest outbreak of AFM – were admitted to the ICU, and 1 in 4 of those patients required a ventilator. Pediatricians and frontline providers in emergency departments and urgent care centers should be prepared to quickly recognize AFM and immediately hospitalize patients.
  
  Who: CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D.; Thomas Clark, M.D., M.P.H., Pediatrician and CDC Deputy Director of the Division of Viral Diseases
  
  When: Tuesday, August 4, at 12:00 p.m. ET
  
  
• Subjects:
  Central Nervous System Viral Diseases Disease Outbreaks Myelitis Neuromuscular Diseases
• Document Type:
  Press Release
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:54bc039a949f2de86b7d7dc63ebbaf42d9754b30179112c6dd76efe359a6c50b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/91492/cdc_91492_DS1.pdf
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