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The Fox News Rundown

Extra: Avoiding COVID Mistakes As The World Responds To Hantavirus

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The deadly Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean last month continues to keep people on edge worldwide. U.S. health officials are monitoring dozens of people across the country for symptoms. Eighteen of them were on the Dutch cruise ship and are being quarantined in health facilities in Omaha and Atlanta. When reports of the outbreak began, many were reminded of the 2020 pandemic, when COVID-19 caused worldwide lockdowns, economic turmoil, and millions of deaths. But while officials across the globe are concerned about the spread of hantavirus, most are confident this will not be a repeat of the crisis the world faced six years ago. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield is one of those experts who says, “This is not COVID.” He joined FOX News Rundown host Dave Anthony to discuss the alarm the hantavirus is causing. He explained how hantavirus spreads and why it can be dangerous for those who are infected. He also explained how it's different from COVID, which was a mystery at the time. Redfield also discussed the mistakes made during the COVID crisis and how learning from them will help the world deal with future outbreaks. We often have to cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on the Fox News Rundown Extra, we share our entire interview with Dr. Robert Redfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Fox News Rundown. Extra.

0:07.4

I'm Dave Anthony. Today, the Hanta virus, which has made a lot of people uneasy.

0:15.3

With that outbreak on a cruise ship that left three passengers dead and others infected,

0:19.7

but we keep being assured this is not

0:24.0

going to be a COVID sequel. It's not another pandemic, which is what the former director of the

0:30.0

Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Robert Redfield told us, trying to ease our fears. He led to CDC

0:36.4

when COVID first surfaced during the first Trump administration and then spread

0:41.0

into the nightmare.

0:41.7

It became in 2020.

0:43.5

We talked to him after 18 American passengers taken off the ship were flown to the U.S.

0:50.6

and put in quarantine at a special facility in Nebraska and another in Georgia.

0:56.2

One had tested positive before coming back to the U.S.

0:59.0

Another had mild symptoms but had not tested positive for a antivirus.

1:04.1

Those two had been put in special biocontainment units.

1:09.1

The CDC is also monitoring about 20 others, more than that.

1:14.1

In several other states who either had also been passengers on that ship earlier

1:19.3

or had close contact with them while traveling.

1:23.3

And my conversation with Dr. Redfield about Hantavirus and COVID

1:26.9

was too long to fit into

1:29.2

the rundown podcast we posted the other day.

1:31.9

Today, we've put everything we trimmed back in.

1:36.2

We had to make those cuts for time reasons.

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