President Trump has terminated the partnership between the World Health Organization and the US, he announced
CDC director defends agency's early surveillance of coronavirus: "We were never blind"Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, participates in the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force at the White House, on April 22. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was"never blind" to the early spread of coronavirus in the United States, the agency's director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a phone call with reporters on Friday."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. "Independent of testing, we had pretty good eyes on whether there was any new respiratory influenza-like illness occurring in our country."
Redfield was discussing a new CDC report that shows the virus was already spreading some in January and early February in Washington state and other Pacific northwest areas, much earlier than when the first case of community spread was confirmed in the United States in late February.
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