CDC’s acting director says hantavirus is not “a five-alarm fire bell”
Washington — Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the federal government’s response to the deadly hantavirus outbreak, saying it doesn’t make sense to sound “a five-alarm fire bell” because the risk to the public is “much, much lower” than what we saw with the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s … Read more