The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will go back to its regular briefings while keeping its coronavirus response.
On Friday, the CDC held a briefing in which director Robert Redfield said the agency has never ignored the early spread of the coronavirus in the United States.
According to a senior Health and Human Services official, the session was the first session of the resumption of the regular press briefings.
The last of the regular briefings was on March 9. The last regular briefing was held shortly after a CDC official, Dr. Nancy Messonier, the agency’s director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, announced to Trump's administration that the coronavirus would spread more rapidly at a time when the White House was ignoring how serious it was.
Her comments angered President Trump and the stock market was afraid of the matter.
The CDC decided to resume its briefing as the White House has been under fire recently for sidelining the administration’s health experts on its own coronavirus task force. The doctors, including Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, have appeared less and less as the country begins to reopen, despite fears of a potential resurgence.
