Trump: CDC announces further steps to defend against coronavirus

WASHINGTON, April 4 (KUNA) -- The US president Donald Trump said Saturday "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing additional steps Americans can take to defend against the transmission of the virus." In his daily press briefing, Trump said "from recent studies, we know that the transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood, so you don't seem to have symptoms, and it still gets transferred." In light of the studies, the CDC is advising the use of nonmedical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure.
So it's voluntary you don't have to do it. They suggest it for a period of time. But this is voluntary. "I don't think I'm going to be doing it," Trump added.
"I'm also signing a directive invoking the Defense Production Act to prohibit scarce health and medical supplies by unscrupulous actors and profiteers, we need these items immediately for domestic use," Trump added.
"We have to have them but we've done really well with the purchase of items and you will be hearing about that shortly," Trump noted.
"We are also continuing to track significant outbreaks in New York State, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago and Boston," Trump said.
Meanwhile, C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the city projects one in seven residents will contract coronavirus, with the nation's capital seeing a peak in hospitalized patients around late June and early July.
Five infants have tested positive for coronavirus in Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan said at a press conference Friday afternoon.
The youngest of the infants is just one-month-old, Hogan said.
"The reality is that this disease does not discriminate, and no one is immune," he said." (end) asj.mb