A top Health and Human Services (HHS) official has confirmed that there is a very low risk indeed of hantavirus spreading among the general public. Hopefully, that means that the federal government is not going to attempt a second round of the economically, psychologically, politically, and medically disastrous lockdowns and vaccines from the COVID-19 era.
Admiral Brian Christine, who is currently the assistant secretary for health, reassured the public about the risk of a hantavirus outbreak being extremely minimal. Most people did get COVID-19, but it had about a 99% survival rate for the general population. And yet we had more than a year of lockdowns that ruined far more lives than they saved and vaccine mandates that damaged yet more lives. Hopefully under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS will be much wiser, but Donald Trump also needs to have learned his lesson from last time; that is, he needs to not let himself be bullied into foolish decisions he himself does not agree with because the media is squawking like demented parrots.
Christine said, “Let me be crystal clear. The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low. The Andes variant of this virus does not spread easily, and it requires prolonged, close contact with someone who is already symptomatic. Even so, we have taken this situation very seriously from the very start. We've taken [it] seriously across HHS and particularly through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
BREAKING: "The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low."
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 11, 2026
Admiral Brian Christine, MD — Assistant Secretary for Health sets the record straight on the risk of hantavirus to the public:
"The Andes variant of this virus does not spread easily, and it… pic.twitter.com/YAzrohgTS5
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This ought to be enough to assure us that the federal government is not planning anything like the first round of Covid lockdowns, but then again there are also plenty of state governments run by Democrats who love nothing more than an excuse for tyranny. And perhaps after the nightmare of 2020 and 2021, I have a little bit of lockdown PTSD, which makes me wary of any disease about which the medical establishment and mainstream media consider it worthwhile to screech.
I mentioned above that the COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines did more harm than good, and I want to share just a few datasets and sources so that I am not making this assertion without proof. In 2022, a Johns Hopkins meta-analysis determined that the lockdowns had very little effect on improving public health outcomes, but “imposed enormous economic and social costs.” Later that year, researchers at the Jerusalem College of Technology argued in a paper that their analysis supported the statistic of lockdown policies claiming 20 times more lives than they saved. And of course, under the second Trump administration and HHS Secretary Kennedy, federal healthcare agencies have adjusted and overhauled their COVID-19 vaccine recommendations based on objective assessment of harms, while the Department of War no longer requires either the COVID-19 or flu vaccines for military.
Unfortunately, a huge part of the problem is that the federal government should never have been involved in healthcare to begin with, from a constitutional or practical standpoint. But now the government feels it needs to respond to any and every alleged localized or limited health crisis that the media complains about. In most cases, however, the federal government is going to make a healthcare crisis exponentially worse, just as it made the entire medical system in the United States much more expensive and inefficient ever since Obamacare.
