Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said the hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius does not carry pandemic risk comparable to COVID-19, according to CNN. Said Bhattacharya: "This is not COVID, this is not going to have — lead to the kind of outbreak." The CDC deployed a team of epidemiologists to the Canary Islands and said it will conduct an exposure risk assessment for each American passenger when the ship docks in Tenerife, Spain.