Illinois lab begins testing for new coronavirus

Illiis Department of Public Health has started testing for 2019 vel coronavirus in its Chicago lab.

flu-like disease, officially named COVID-19 on Tuesday, has ranged from mild to serious and can cause pneumonia.

World Health Organization has convened outside experts to try to speed development of tests, treatments and vaccines against new coronavirus out of China, as doctors on front lines experiment on patients with various drugs in hopes of saving lives in meantime.

Illiis Department of Public Health is providing an assist to Centers for Disease Control.

Jennifer Crew, PhD, runs department's virology lab. She says false negatives are possible if somebody has just been exposed and y don't have eugh virus for us to detect, or if y're near end of an infection and re's also t going to be eugh virus to detect.