Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya urged the public not to panic over the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, underscoring that it’s not like COVID-19. Bhattacharya, who also helms the National Institutes of Health (NIH), defended the CDC’s contact tracing methods revolving around the seven passengers who already flew back several weeks ago, and insisted the agency is following its protocols. Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discussed the hantavirus outbreak during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper. CNN Medics escort a patients, evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, to an ambulance after being flown to Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. AP “I don’t want to cause a public panic,” Bhattacharya told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.…