Help control the spread of rumors. Visit FEMA’s rumor control pageexternal icon. Beware of fraud schemes related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Visit Office of Inspector General’s COVID-19 fraud alert pageexternal icon. A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified.
The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold.
A diagnosis with coronavirus 229E, NL63, OC43, or HKU1 is not the same as a COVID-19 diagnosis. Patients with COVID-19 will be evaluated and cared for differently than patients with common coronavirus diagnosis.