This week, the hantavirus outbreak officially ended. The Americans who had been quarantining can finally go get a coffee in public again, because we are past the 42-day window that defines the Andes virus incubation period. CDC and HHS are calling the containment a success.
The backstory here is less tidy than the ending: a lot of unglamorous work went into keeping it small, with WHO leadership from the beginning, plus experts in global migration, rodent-borne disease, and special pathogens, the biocontainment teams in Omaha, and local and state health departments doing daily monitoring. But one thing that can’t be ignored is the Administration’s response, which included orders signed by Jay Bhattacharya as acting CDC director to hold American citizens in a federal facility against their will after CDC’s own medical reviewer and other outside experts recommended home monitoring.
Gobble's Take: The outbreak may be over, but the argument over how much authority was necessary is just getting started.
Source: Perplexity Search (community news)
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