{"id":1201797,"date":"2022-01-09T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201797"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:35:17","slug":"bret-baier-challenges-cdc-director-to-call-out-justice-sotomayor-on-covid-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bret-baier-challenges-cdc-director-to-call-out-justice-sotomayor-on-covid-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Baier Challenges CDC Director To Call Out Justice Sotomayor On COVID Misinformation"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbret-baier-challenges-cdc-director-to-call-out-justice-sotomayor-on-covid-misinformation%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=1201797&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--><p>Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked Dr. Rochelle Walensky three times whether she would publicly contradict false statements made by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and all three times Walensky responded by pushing COVID-19 vaccinations for anyone who was eligible to get one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/baier-to-walensky-has-the-public-lost-trust-in-cdc\/\">Walensky<\/a>, who serves as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), joined Baier on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d to discuss everything from the CDC\u2019s newly-relaxed guidance on testing and isolation to the Supreme Court\u2019s oral arguments on President Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates for health care workers and for corporations that employ more than 100 people \u2014 and Baier did not hesitate to press <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/after-cdcs-rochelle-walensky-admits-covid-19-pcr-tests-has-a-major-flaw-conservatives-demand-answers\/\">Walensky<\/a> on apparently false claims <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-sotomayor-totally-botches-covid-19-facts-about-omicron-children-in-hospital-in-line-of-questioning\/\">Sotomayor<\/a> made during those oral arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Baier began with a direct quote from Sotomayor, who claimed, \u201cWe have over 100,000 children, which we\u2019ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we can find from Friday suggest there are fewer than 3500 current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19. Is that true?\u201d Baier asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, but here\u2019s what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now,\u201d Walensky replied, going on to say that the majority of hospitalized children were unvaccinated and of those who were not eligible for the vaccine, the majority had gotten COVID-19 from their unvaccinated family members. \u201cFirst of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated, and for those children who are not eligible for vaccination, we do know that they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren\u2019t vaccinated, so the most important thing we can do for those children to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and to vaccinate their family members around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstood, but the number is not 100,000, it\u2019s roughly 3500 in hospitals now,\u201d Baier pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>Walensky agreed, but quickly pivoted to data suggesting those numbers were increasing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a number of children on ventilators?\u201d Baier asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not have that off the top of my head,\u201d she said, but immediately redirected to the vaccine once again, saying that being vaccinated would reduce the number of children who needed to be put on ventilators and the number who might deal with other possible complications of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risk of death or serious illness in children is still very small, right?\u201d Baier asked then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComparatively the risk of death is small,\u201d Walensky agreed, adding, \u201cBut of course, you know, children aren\u2019t supposed to die, so if we have a child who\u2019s been \u2013 who is sick with COVID-19, we want to make sure \u2013 we want to protect them of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m talking from your data, ages 15 to 24, for example, the risk of death is at 0.001%,\u201d Baier persisted. \u201cI guess what I\u2019m getting at in this opening is that the Supreme Court is in the process of dealing with this big issue about mandates, and do you feel responsibility as the CDC director to correct a very big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cDo you feel a responsibility as the CDC director to correct a very big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WALENSKY: \u201cYeah, um, here\u2019s what I\u2019ll tell you\u2026my responsibility is to provide guidance and recommendations to protect the American people.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlZcL7tux7\">pic.twitter.com\/tlZcL7tux7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1480186483327868931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walensky did not make the correction, instead pivoting once more to the data on how vaccination impacted the probability that one might need hospitalization or even die fro COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat my responsibility is is to provide guidance and recommendations to protect the American people. Those recommendations strongly recommend vaccination for our children above the age of 5 and boosting for everyone above the age of 18 if they are eligible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked Dr. Rochelle Walensky three times whether she would publicly contradict false statements made by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and all three times Walensky responded by pushing COVID-19 vaccinations for anyone who was eligible to get one. Walensky, who serves as director of the Centers for Disease Control and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-1201797","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\/1201797","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201797\/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=1201797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}