Dr. Birx exerpt from 4/16/20 Coronavirus Task Force Briefing
This is a very important slide. It talks about the gatekeeping — on the gatekeeping criteria to moving into phase one. It’s very much related to what you just saw about influenza-like illness. And the United States has been tracking influenza-like illnesses through the Centers of Disease Control for years.
Both the state and public health officials are used to watching this, county health officials are used to watching it, and frankly, every family around the United States knows how to access this on the CDC website in order to get update — up-to-date information to the communities.
It also looks at a syndromic emergency room-type visits — again, housed at the CDC — and really is our surveillance program that can be utilized for a lot of different illnesses, but in this case, will be utilized for r