***This post was last updated, Monday, March 23*** The outbreak and global spread of a deadly coronavirus has dominated news coverage and generated numerous questions about prevention, surveillance and transmission around the world.

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  Melinda Buntin, Ph.D., Mike Curb professor of health policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy, has been named the deputy editor for a new online channel published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA.