I can tell you that the data and this issue of whether it's going to contribute is being aggressively reviewed as we speak.Ĭoronavirus models the Trump administration has been looking at suggest an initial surge in hospitalizations and deaths in April or May. Obviously you can see the complexity of that, if you assume that 25% are asymptomatic, the only way you would do it - if you then sort of went into areas that were high transmission zones and had a significant individuals then wearing masks, assuming that they were infected. Particularly with the new data, that there's significant asymptomatic transmission, this is being critically re-reviewed to see if there's potential additional value for individuals that are infected or individuals that may be asymptomatically infected. if I wear a mask, is it something that protects others, from me?
Is the mask something that protects me or. there is data from obviously Singapore, Hong Kong and China that looks at the issue and you can look at masks in two ways. We're always critically looking at new data and. Are you taking another look at the CDC's mask recommendations? This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country, because we have asymptomatic transmitters and we have individuals who are transmitting 48 hours before they become symptomatic. That's important, because now you have individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute to transmission, and we have learned that in fact they do contribute to transmission.Īnd finally, of those of us that get symptomatic, it appears that we're shedding significant virus in our oropharyngeal compartment, probably up to 48 hours before we show symptoms. One of the information that we have pretty much confirmed now is that a significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. It's probably now about three times as infectious as flu. This virus does have the ability to transmit far easier than flu. Has the CDC learned anything new about the virus, such as how contagious it is or how it is transmitted, in recent weeks? This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity. On Monday, Redfield agreed to a phone interview with Sam Whitehead, the health reporter at WABE in Atlanta, where he also hosts a coronavirus podcast. Robert Redfield, and the agency, based in Atlanta, has not held a media briefing since March 9. The public has heard much less from the CDC director, Dr. Deborah Birx is the global AIDS coordinator for the State Department. Anthony Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which focuses on biomedical research, and Dr. President Trump has been holding almost daily press conferences at the White House, but the primary health advisers at his side are not from the CDC. Yet the nation's public health agency, with its distinguished history of successfully fighting scourges such as polio and smallpox, has been conspicuously absent in recent weeks as infections and deaths from the new coronavirus soared in the U.S. During the H1N1 flu of 2009, the Ebola crisis in 2014 and the mosquito-borne outbreak of Zika in 2015, the CDC has led the federal response. When infectious pathogens have threatened the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been front and center.
Michael Brochstein/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing about the coronavirus on March 11.
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