The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that norovirus outbreaks declined between April–July 2020, which may be related to COVID-19 control measures.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has tools to identify possible multistate outbreaks, investigate their cause, and communicate about them to the public. But it needs to balance the need to communicate quickly against the need to provide accurate and specific information.
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the United States, the meat industry increasingly faces the potential of pandemic-related economic and legal threats.
