CDC's acting director says hantavirus is not "a five-alarm fire bell"
Washington ā Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the federal governmentās response to the deadly hantavirus outbreak, saying it doesnāt make sense to sound āa five-alarm fire bellā because the risk to the public is āmuch, much lowerā than what we saw with the COVID-19 pandemic.Ā āItās very different than COVID, and we should treat itā¦




















