Washington: The Trump administration has used work by Australian public health experts as the basis for a new set of guidelines to help Americans protect themselves from the coronavirus.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, centre, addresses the media alongside Vice-President Mike Pence, right, and Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, on Monday. Credit:Bloomberg

At a briefing on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases boss Anthony Fauci urged Americans to consult the new guidelines.

"All of this came from a paper that Dr Fauci provided from the Australians," Birx said.

Fauci said the advice, to be uploaded to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's website, would cover how to minimise the risk of contracting the disease in the home, the workplace and while travelling.