The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was 'never blind' to the early spread of the coronavirus in the United States, the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, told reporters
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was"never blind" to the early spread of the coronavirus in the United States, the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, told reporters on Friday.
Redfield defended the CDC's surveillance for the coronavirus and denied that the agency missed the spread of the virus across the country.'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.VideoPlayer.
CDC 'muzzled' by White House, sources say 03:43"We were never blind when it came to surveillance for coronavirus 19," Redfield said."The reality is the surveillance systems that CDC had developed over the years for respiratory viral diseases, particularly the influenza-like illness, really did give us eyes on this disease as it began to emerge," Redfield said.
CNN reports from CDC emergency operation center 02:09Read MoreThe new research, published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Friday, suggests that there was some community transmission of the novel coronavirus in the United States between the latter half of January and the beginning of February -- as researchers had previously thought -- and the virus likely was introduced from China.
"We really were ... basically on a pause for a few weeks within the public health system," Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, said in April."And meanwhile, the academic laboratories who had developed their own tests also were not able to test because the regulations didn't allow it at that time.
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