Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this week said he feels the United States is ready to begin reopening but will need to expand testing and contact tracing to avoid a potential second wave of CCP virus in fall or winter.
“I want to clarify that the community-based transmission, the community to community transmission that overwhelmed the public health departments in late February, March, April—that’s really coming down,” Redfield said in an interview with The Hill on May 19.
