The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director said he was unaware of any indication from his agency that physical barriers along U.S. borders would help halt the spread of the coronavirus — contradicting an assertion Trump made earlier today
Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that he was unaware of any indication from his agency that physical barriers along America’s borders would help halt the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. — contradicting an assertion President Donald Trump made earlier in the day.
Appearing before House lawmakers to testify about the public health crisis and the White House’s budget request for his agency, Redfield was by Rep. Katherine Clark if the CDC’s recommendations for combating the coronavirus state addressed whether “structural barriers” at the borders “would be of any use in mitigating” the growing outbreak.
On Tuesday morning, Trump claimed that his campaign trail pledge of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would also aid in containing the coronavirus,Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,Fox News in an interview on Saturday that “we’re taking our lead from the CDC and [Health and Human Services] and other health care providers,“ and said CBP was represented on the White House coronavirus task force.
“We’re very confident that as the health risks shift or change and we’re asked to operationalize that, no matter what that is, CBP is ready to do that to include the southwest border,“ Morgan said. Thus far, only seven cases of coronavirus have been
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