Researchers are working around the clock to develop treatments and vaccines for the new coronavirus that continues to sweep the globe.
As of March 18, there were more than 201,000 confirmed cases worldwide, about 6,500 cases in the United States, 740 cases in California, and 356 in the San Francisco Bay Area .
While COVID-19 is mild for some people, in others it can potentially be fatal. On March 16, the National Institutes of Health announced that the first U.S.