CDC’s Redd: China Travel Restrictions Were ‘Very Helpful Move’ to Slow Spread of Coronavirus

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REDD: "You know, I think there are some things that they did well and others that they didn't. Reporting the outbreak quickly, posting the sequence of the new virus. There did appear to be a period of time when probably things were going on that weren't getting out of China. I think there were questions about whether there was human-to-human transmission that initially appeared it might be just people exposed to animals, so I think that that was a period of time when we were — there's not really anything we would have done differently. We were working on a diagnostic test, we were sending materials that started the ball rolling on vaccine production. We, as you know, within weeks of identifying the outbreak — really, the restriction of travel from China, reduced travel by 90 percent, I think that was a very helpful move to prevent more cases from China coming into the United States."