Dr. Tom Frieden

Media Contributions

• Dr. Tom Frieden - Think Global Health

• Dr. Tom Frieden - Fox News

• Dr. Tom Frieden - Huffington Post

• Dr. Tom Frieden - The Hill

• Dr. Tom Frieden - Telegraph

• Dr. Tom Frieden - C-SPAN

News articles and media appearances from Tom Frieden during the second quarter of 2020, discussing the COVID-19 pandemic

June 2020

• As Covid-19 cases rise among younger adults, expect a lower death rate for now, says Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director

• Dr Tom Frieden: 'Blaming CDC for US Covid failures is like blaming someone encased in concrete for failing to swim'

• Dr. Tom Frieden speaks on Fox News: Six months of coronavirus — good news, bad news and where we go next

• Dr. Tom Frieden speaks on whether coronavirus surge in Sun Belt suggests states re-opened too quickly

• Dr. Tom Frieden discusses on Fox News new coronavirus spikes: 'The virus has the upper hand'

• What the C.D.C. Did Wrong, and Why: Dr. Tom Frieden, former C.D.C. director, and three former Epidemic Intelligence Service officers cite underfunding and lack of a national strategy as major reasons for its failures.

May 2020

• Dr. Tom Frieden: “I would feel safer and we would all be safer if we were hearing from the CDC regularly”

• WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, talks with former Director of the CDC, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH.

• Dr. Tom Frieden: Coronavirus alert levels — here's how to recover our economy without risking lives

• Former CDC director, Tom Frieden, says U.S. led the world before becoming a global health ‘laggard’

• Former CDC Director Dr. Frieden discusses his nonprofit's recommended guidelines to reopen U.S.

• Former CDC director Tom Frieden wants more coronavirus information from public health experts, not politicians

• Dr. Tom Frieden interviews with Vanity Fair and discusses his “Box It In” strategy for contact tracing

• Former CDC chief Tom Frieden warns of "many waves" of COVID-19 if economy reopens too soon

• Dr. Tom Frieden discusses 5 ways to prevent another 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the US (and beyond)

• Dr. Tom Frieden outlines the '10 plain truths' about the coronavirus pandemic, according to former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden

April 2020

• Dr. Tom Frieden in the Daily News “the strongest weapon we have against coronavirus’ and warns rushing to reopen U.S. is a 'very dangerous experiment' unless six conditions are in place

• Dr. Tom Frieden and Dr. Sam Dooley outline the 4 things we must do to avoid a COVID-19 resurgence in Fox News

• Dr. Tom Frieden in Stat News “U.S. is ‘less safe’ from coronavirus when CDC goes quiet, former director says”

• Video Chat of Dr. Tom Frieden with Stat News on the Coronavirus

• Dr. Frieden’s OpEd in the New York Time: I Used to Run the C.D.C. Here’s What It Can Do to Slow This Pandemic.

• Following a media briefing and press statement on the topic, Dr. Frieden outlined the way forward to reopen society as soon and safely as possible without risking explosive spread of the virus.

• Dr. Tom Frieden in the Washington Times “How well and how quickly we do these things will determine how soon and how safely we can reopen. And when we return, we need to reopen the faucet gradually, not open the floodgates and risk an explosion of cases again.”