Workers check in residents at a mobile COVID-19 testing site set up on a vacant lot in the Austin neighborhood on June 23, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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The sentiment was expressed just as the U.S. continues to see a surge of new infections of the virus.
“We’re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new case is rapidly identified and all the contacts are traced and people are isolated who are sick and people who are exposed are quarantined and they can keep things under control,” she said.
Johns Hopkins University has put together data to show that New Zealand had 89 new cases a day when the virus was ravaging their country in April.
Schuchat added that there were so many outbreaks taking place all at once in the country, which makes it even harder to get the virus under control.
