Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’

Director Jay Bhattacharya said Sunday that hantavirus “is not COVID,” in reference to an outbreak of the virus on a Dutch cruise ship.
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CDC boss douses media’s hopes for COVID sequel

With the media sting fears over a potential sequel to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC’s acting director dropped a reality check on the hantavirus outbreak. Passengers aboard […]
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Support for CDC pick offset by ‘worrying’ ACIP update

Experts voiced support for the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, a deeply credentialed physician with public health experience and a history of supporting vaccines, to be the next director of the CDC.
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CDC Director’s Nomination Is an Opportunity to Reconstitute the CDC

A window has opened to repair the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reconstitute it to meet new realities, and regain essential bipartisan trust and confidence among the American people. Success requires Congress to take up its ...
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Trump nominates Erica Schwartz as CDC director amid turmoil around leadership, vaccine policy

President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has been going through turmoil and several leadership shakeups under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

CDC leader says hantavirus not "a five-alarm fire bell"

Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CBS News that the hantavirus outbreak should be treated differently from COVID.