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Robert Redfield

COVID-19: US Travel Bans Came Too Late For Metro Area, CDC Says COVID-19: US Travel Bans Came Too Late For Metro Area, CDC Says
Covid-19: US Travel Bans Came Too Late For Metro Area, CDC Says After months of criticizing the federal government for issuing a travel ban for Chinese residents while COVID-19 cases were actually pouring into the New York metro area from Europe, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been vindicated. Now, the government's main agency handling the crisis agrees with that assessment. A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined that by the time the federal government placed travel restrictions on Europe, it was already too late, and the virus had taken a stranglehold in the region. The federal government restricted travel from Chin…
COVID-19: You May Have Had Virus And Not Known It, CDC Says COVID-19: You May Have Had Virus And Not Known It, CDC Says
Covid-19: You May Have Had Virus And Not Known It, CDC Says There have been around 2.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States since the pandemic began in mid-March. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now saying that it's possible that just 10 percent of people infected with the virus are included in that number because most cases went undiagnosed. Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC's director, said in a media briefing that a "good estimate" is 10-to-1 for those infected with COVID to those testing positive. That means the number of people who have or had COVID in the United States is about 25 …
COVID-19: CDC Issues New Guidelines For Essential Workers COVID-19: CDC Issues New Guidelines For Essential Workers
Covid-19: CDC Issues New Guidelines For Essential Workers The federal government has provided new guidelines for essential employees battling novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that will make it easier for them to return to work after being exposed to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that essential workers who have been exposed to COVID-19 can go back to work if they are asymptomatic without having to wait out the originally mandated 14-day self-quarantine. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, said that employees such as healthcare and food supply workers will be permitted to return back to work under ce…