The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been quiet lately, while President Trump and his health advisors have been keeping the country informed. Sam Whitehead, the health reporter at WABE in Atlanta, interviewed CDC Director Robert Redfield. He said the virus has the ability to transmit far easier than the flu. It is probably now about three times as infectious as the flu. A significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That can be as many as 25%, which is important because there are individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute to transmission, and in fact, they do contribute to transmission. Those individuals that get symptomatic are shedding significant amounts of the virus in their oropharyngeal compartment, probably up to 48 hours before they show symptoms. This helps explain how rapidly the virus continues to spread across the country, because there are asymptomatic transmitters and individuals who are transmitting…