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Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’
Key takeaways
- The key message I want to send to your audience is that this is not COVID, this is not going to have — lead to the kind of outbreak, he added.
- An outbreak of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship in the Atlantic recently spiked public concerns about the virus, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The U.S. was set to send a charter flight to bring home Americans on board the MV Hondius once it docked off the Spanish coast.
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We ve been communicating the last week as the — as the sort of the, the press attention has picked up more with the public, as is appropriate, given the nature of this disease, Bhattacharya told CNN s Jake Tapper on State of the Union.
The key message I want to send to your audience is that this is not COVID, this is not going to have — lead to the kind of outbreak, he added.
An outbreak of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship in the Atlantic recently spiked public concerns about the virus, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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