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He is now the director of the NIH.
Here is him on State of the Union with Jake Tapper, CNN yesterday, answering questions about the hantavirus.
Crystal, reaction to Trump and Jay Bhattacharya there.
They are going to getβI mean, so right now, we just put this New York Times tear sheet up on the screen, the next element.
Right now, what we have is U.S.
passengers who are aboard the ship.
They are beingβthey're disembarking, and as we just saw, they are now going to be quarantined at a center in Nebraska.
So, they're being transported to the center in Nebraska.
These are the American citizens who had been aboard the ship.
And the next element here, NBC News, seven states are preparing to receive Americans possibly exposed to the hantavirus.
So, the, quote, U.S.
has entered emergency response mode as a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak sails toward one of Spain's Canary Islands.
Of the 150 passengers on board, 17 of them are Americans.
Seven states are preparing their emergency response for people who are potentially exposed to this to return home and to also just tracking the spread where this could have already gone in the United States based on that incubation period Tapper was referring to of apparently up to six weeks since
six weeks, and some American passengers disembarked along with others on April 24th.
So, states like Georgia, Texas, they're monitoring two residents who were on the ship.
Arizona and Virginia each have one resident who disembarked that ship on the 24th.
California as well, there's one California resident who is on board the ship.
New Jersey has two residents who were not on the ship but could have been exposed to an infected person.
Texas as well.