The CDC is the US version of WHO. Bureaucrats rather than scientists, with a distinctly different agenda than our well being.
Regarding this contagion, the CDC is Larry, Moe and Curly.
If you have the patience to listen to CDC briefings they contradict themselves a lot...
Usually it is in the form of:
Take action x because of disease feature y.
However, we are still investigating whether disease feature y is valid.