Former CDC director gives '10 plain truths' about coronavirus to House committee

The former director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has given the House “10 plain truths” about the coronavirus pandemic during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
Dr Tom Frieden, speaking to the committee, characterised the coronavirus as “scary” and “unprecedented,” confessing that in his 30 year career in public health, he’d “never seen anything like this”.

Responding to the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the nature of the virus, ranging from it being a creation of a Chinese lab to a recently released video of a discredited doctor claiming the coronavirus is just a bad strain of flu from the mid-aughts, Mr Frieden laid out 10 things he says are undeniably true about the virus.