{"id":1143677,"date":"2021-12-22T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143677"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:50:24","slug":"cdc-director-walensky-dodges-question-about-preparation-for-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-walensky-dodges-question-about-preparation-for-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director Walensky dodges question about preparation for Omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-director-walensky-dodges-question-about-preparation-for-omicron-variant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2620241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2620241\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2620241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wail-655x437-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. Earlier this week Walensky gave final approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wail-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wail-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wail-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wail.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2620241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:12 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, December 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rochelle Walensky appeared to dodge a question regarding how the Biden administration prepared for the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on Monday, Walensky largely ignored a question about when the agency knew Omicron was going to spread quickly. Instead of giving a timeline, the Biden official just said \u201cthings are moving quickly\u201d and denied to give specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden said the variant spread \u201calmost overnight.\u201d This comes as critics have accused Biden of inadequately preparing for the latest variant amid his claims nobody expected its rapid emergence.<\/p>\n<p>Walensky said the agency is awaiting more data about the variant and claimed individuals who are vaccinated have a much lower chance of contracting a severe case.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TODAYShow<\/a> to break down the latest on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OmicronVariant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OmicronVariant<\/a>. While there may be breakthrough cases as we see more <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Omicron?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Omicron<\/a>, those vaccinated + boosted will have less severe outcomes &amp; less risk of mortality. Get vaccinated &amp; get boosted when eligible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6233KNWceh\">https:\/\/t.co\/6233KNWceh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCDirector\/status\/1473645830368337921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI really do want to say we are in a very different position now than we were just a year ago because now we have the science,\u201d Walensky stressed. \u201cWe have the tools that we need in order to combat this pandemic, even the Omicron variant and that includes getting vaccinated and the booster and practicing prevention measures we have been talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walensky went on to advise everyone to continue wearing masks while indoors regardless of their vaccination status. She also added the \u201cvast majority of people who are in the hospital right now are unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/white-house-extends-student-loan-repayment-moratorium-through-april-30\/\">White House Extends Student Loan Repayment Moratorium Through April 30<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}