MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 20, 2020   [open pdf - 729KB]

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Meeting Global Targets -- Worldwide, 2018"; "Tuberculosis -- United States, 2019"; "Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths --United States, 2017-2018"; "Variation in Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription Dispensing by Age and Sex -- United States, 2008-2018"; "Delayed Identification of Infants Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing -- Minnesota, 2012-2016"; "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Surveillance and Containment Measures for the First 100 Patients with COVID-19 in Singapore -- January 2-February 29, 2020"; "Initial Investigation of Transmission of COVID-19 Among Crew Members During Quarantine of a Cruise Ship -- Yokohama, Japan, February 2020". Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html]