President disagrees despite the fact that more than 2,700 people have died from virus worldwide
By Terry Miller
The Center for Disease Control on Tuesday urged Americans to prepare for a coronavirus pandemic.
However, some don’t necessarily agree with the experts’ consensus including the president of the United States. President Trump is stating that in fact the coronavirus is “going to go away.”
Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a press briefing that the “rapidly evolving and expanding” COVID-19 outbreak has now seen “community spread” in multiple countries, as well as cases in several regions without a known exposure to where the disease originated, Wuhan, China.
“These factors meet two of the three criteria for a pandemic,” Messonnier said. “The world appears to be moving closer to the third criteria — worldwide spread.”
On Monday, the World Health Organization declined to declare the outbreak a pandemic, as cases emerged in Iran, Italy and elsewhere.
