"I bet this is under intense discussion," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and a longtime adviser to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "These are not easy decisions," said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease specialist and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. "We'll take whatever the appropriate evidence-based public health measures are with them, as we would in any other situation," he said. "We value freedom in the US and we tend to restrict people only when really necessary," said Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Hotez, the infectious disease expert at Baylor, agreed that a middle-of-the-road approach made sense.

Source: CNN January 28, 2020 22:41 UTC