CDC Worried That Public Isn’t Taking Guidance Seriously

The director of the CDC is concerned that Americans aren’t taking warnings about COVID-19 seriously.

CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a report to Congress that he is concerned that protests due to the death of George Floyd, there might not be as much social distancing as there was previously.

“We’re very concerned that our public health message isn’t resonating,” he said, via Newsweek. “We continue to try to figure out how to penetrate the message with different groups.”

“If people were asymptomatic or pre-symptomatically infected, if they were wearing a face covering, they would have less ability to transmit to others,” he continued. “That’s why we embraced this important public health tool. I will say that we continue to see this as a critical public health tool.”

There have been just over 1.9 million reported cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak first hit in March, and there are also more than 110,000 deaths, with numbers slowly trending down.