Dr. Seema Yasmin

now does not have a seat at the table when it comes to global health.

Public health experts say the hantavirus is not spreading in the same way COVID-19 does.

Dr. Seema Yasmin is an epidemiologist and professor at Stanford University.

Six years after the pandemic, she says Americans still have legitimate fears about new outbreaks.

I'm not going to gaslight anyone into thinking that they are foolish for being scared because of the world we're living in, and especially the fact that the U.S.

now does not have a seat at the table when it comes to global health.

Yasmin says years of political division, misinformation, and declining trust in public health agencies have left the U.S.

vulnerable, even when the overall risk from the hantavirus remains low.

Windsor Johnston, NPR News.