AOC

I'm going to ask Anais to come in and say this, but I want to be unequivocal here.

This is not SARS-CoV-2.

This is not the start of a COVID pandemic.

This is an outbreak that we see on a ship.

There's a confined area.

We have five confirmed cases so far.

We completely understand why these questions are coming.

And we are trying to provide all of the information that we can.

That's why we're having a press conference here to give accurate information.

And we're grateful for all of those out there who are.

asking these types of questions.

But this is not the same situation we were in six years ago.

It doesn't spread the same way like coronaviruses do.

It's very different.

It's that close, intimate contact that we've seen.

And most hantaviruses don't transmit between people at all.

Most hantaviruses are transmitted from rodents or their feces or their saliva or droppings to people.

And only this one particular virus, the Andes virus, which has been identified here, we've seen some human-to-human transmission.

I care about results.

I care about results.