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CDC cites label error in mixup involving coronavirus patient

By AMY TAXIN, JOHN ANTCZAK, and ELLIOT SPAGAT | February 12, 2020

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A labeling error caused a woman infected with the novel coronavirus to be mistakenly released from a hospital but the oversight was noticed as she was returning to a San Diego military base where more than 200 evacuees from China are...