Wellbeing authorities accept there is still chance to forestall across the board transmission of the coronavirus in the United States, the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, even as he cautioned that progressively human-to-human transmission here is likely.

“We’re still going to see new cases. We’re probably going to see human-to-human transmission within the United States,” Dr. Robert Redfield said in a meeting with STAT.

He included that “at some point in time it is highly probable that we’ll have to transition to mitigation” as a general wellbeing system, utilizing “social distancing measures” — for instance, conclusion of certain open offices — and different strategies to attempt to confine the quantity of individuals who become contaminated.

“We’re not going to be able to seal this virus from coming into this country,” Redfield said. But, he added, “we do gain time by prolonging the containment phase as long as we can, provided that we still believe that’s a useful public health effort.”

“That’s where we are right now in the United States.”

To date the U.S. has analyzed 14 instances of the new disease. Of those, 12 were voyagers who were contaminated in China before voyaging home.

On the off chance that the United States starts to see occurrences in a few pieces of the nation in which a solitary case lights four “generations” of human-to-human contamination, Redfield said — which means an individual who gotten the infection taints an individual, who contaminates someone else, who at that point taints someone else — at that point the CDC is probably going to close regulation of the infection has fizzled.

“Once we get greater than three — so four or more is our view — [generations of] human-to-human transmission in the community … and we see that in multiple areas of the country that are not contiguous, then basically the value of all of the containment strategies that we’ve done now then really become not effective,” he said. “That’s when we’re in full mitigation.”

The CDC executive’s comments came as a gathering of specialists that prompts the World Health Organization’s wellbeing crises program prescribed that the world remain the present course of attempting to end spread of the new infection to prevent it from turning into a human pathogen.

That methodology, “containment for elimination,” was effective during the 2002-2003 SARS episode — however this scourge is as of now about multiple times bigger than SARS. During the SARS episode, about 8,000 individuals were tainted and almost 800 kicked the bucket.

Redfield said that China, which has revealed in excess of 45,000 cases to date, has not had the option to contain the infection, regardless of greatly limiting inside movement to attempt to prevent it from spreading from Hubei territory. The focal point of the episode has been the city of Wuhan, situated in Hubei.

“Those countries that are still largely seeing cases that are really, like us, directly from Hubei province, there’s reason to still stay in the containment mode rather than turning that off and going right to mitigation. Because once you’re into mitigation, you will probably start to see more cases that may have been able to be contained,” Redfield said.