We have the right to be concerned about airborne diseases. However, the Andes strain isn’t new — it spreads through close contact, unlike most hantaviruses. And there’s no approved vaccine for it yet.
Remember what happened when Trump ignored COVID-19 warnings? We don’t want a repeat. Glad we caught this one early.
“This is not Covid, and we don’t want to treat it like Covid. We don’t want to cause a public panic over this. We want to treat it with our hantavirus protocols that were successful at containing outbreaks in the past.” — Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya