{"id":1172531,"date":"2021-12-30T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172531"},"modified":"2021-12-30T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:04:44","slug":"cdc-director-continues-to-backtrack-on-covid-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-continues-to-backtrack-on-covid-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC director continues to backtrack on COVID recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-continues-to-backtrack-on-covid-recommendations%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=1172531&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_2623908\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2623908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2623908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21361614991868.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrive to participate in the White House COVID-19 Response Team&#039;s regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21361614991868.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21361614991868-333x210.jpg 333w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21361614991868-694x437.jpg 694w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21361614991868-768x484.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2623908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrive to participate in the White House COVID-19 Response Team\u2019s regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:45 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, December 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has continued to change her messaging for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How long have the \u201cexperts\u201d at the CDC known that PCR tests could stay positive for 12 weeks? Why are they just NOW changing their guidelines? Is this driven by \u201cscience\u201d or is it driven by Biden\u2019s terrible poll numbers? Biden\u2019s incompetence now defines this administration!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonnyJacksonTX\/status\/1476253733424181249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The the national public health agency has been put under scrutiny recently for its new guidance, which was released Monday and shortens the isolation time for people who have COVID yet are asymptomatic from 10 to five-days. Those in isolation will also no longer need to take a test to make sure they are no longer infected once the five-day period is over.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cPeople are most infectious in the one to two days before symptoms develop and the two to three days after,\u201d said Walensky. \u201cAfter five days, the risk of ongoing transmission decreases.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This marks a huge change from the CDC\u2019s guidelines near the start of the pandemic when they recommended a 14-day quarantine period all throughout 2020. In defense of the changes Wednesday, Walensky claimed she was simply following the science.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy job right is to take all of the science and the information that we have and to deliver guidance and recommendations to the American people that adapted to the science at hand,\u201d she stated. \u201cThis pandemic has given us a lot of new, updated science over the the last two years and it is my job to convey that science through those recommendations and that is exactly what we are doing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, in a separate interview with CNN, the CDC director claimed human behavior also played a role in the decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe behavior science: what will people actually do when people need to get back to work? What is is that they\u2019ll actually do?\u201d she asked. \u201cAnd if we can get them to isolate, we do want to make sure they are isolating in those first five-days when they are maximally infectious.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While elaborating further, Walensky said because many people haven\u2019t been isolating when they need to, so they changed the guidance to reflect what people may actually be willing to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWell so it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,\u201d she expalined. \u201cWe have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic. Some science has demonstrated less than a third of people are isolating when they need to and so we really want to make sure that we had guidance in this moment where we were going to have a lot of disease that cold be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to, and that spoke specifically to when people were maximally infectious.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walensky\u2019s comments come as COVID cases are on the rise throughout the U.S. Omicron is now the dominant strain, however, accounting for over 58 percent of new cases according to the CDC. The national public health agency also acknowledged while Omicron is more infectious than other strains, many cases are either mild or asymptomatic.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-rand-paul-highlights-govt-waste-in-annual-festivus-report\/\">Sen. Rand Paul Highlights Govt. 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