{"id":1925464,"date":"2023-05-06T01:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-announces-departure-from-public-health-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T01:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:59:47","slug":"cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-announces-departure-from-public-health-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-announces-departure-from-public-health-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to Leave Public Health Agency"},"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\">18<\/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-rochelle-walensky-announces-departure-from-public-health-agency%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=1925464&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--><h2>Rochelle Walensky to Step Down as CDC Director<\/h2>\n<p>Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be leaving her post at the end of next month. Walensky played a central role in the Biden administration\u2019s response to COVID-19, overseeing the nationwide rollout of vaccines and implementing a federal vaccine mandate for workers. Prior to her role at the CDC, Walensky served as chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<h3>Walensky Reflects on Her Tenure<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director,\u201d Walensky said in a statement. \u201cI took on this role, at your request, with the goal of leaving behind the dark days of the pandemic and moving CDC, and public health, forward into a much better and more trusted place.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Praises Walensky\u2019s Work<\/h3>\n<p>President Biden praised Walensky\u2019s work at the CDC, saying, \u201cDr. Walensky leaves CDC a stronger institution, better positioned to confront health threats and protect Americans. We have all benefited from her service and dedication to public health, and I wish her the best in her next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Controversies Surrounding Walensky\u2019s Tenure<\/h3>\n<p>Walensky faced criticism for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-announces-departure-from-public-health-agency\/\" title=\"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to Leave Public Health Agency\">providing teachers union officials<\/a> with \u201cunprecedented access\u201d to COVID response guidelines, which the unions used to implement a \u201ctrigger\u201d provision that would automatically close schools if COVID test positivity rates reached certain thresholds. Critics of the federal response to COVID argue that inconsistent guidance from senior officials eroded trust in the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cabinet-pick-defended-unconstitutional-religious-restrictions\/\" title=\"Biden Cabinet Pick Defended Unconstitutional Religious Restrictions\">public health agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walensky admitted last year that the CDC made mistakes in its COVID response and called for a \u201creset\u201d that would include staffing changes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-warns-cdc-has-a-bigger-motive-behind-its-shake-up\/\" title=\"Ben Shapiro Warns CDC Has A Bigger Motive Behind Its \u2018Shake-Up\u2019\">faster data releases<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Fauci, who retired from his longtime role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of last year, earned a special degree of criticism for his various recommendations regarding business closures, face masks, and vaccine boosters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite these controversies, Walensky\u2019s tenure at the CDC was marked by a commitment to equity in healthcare and a dedication to responding quickly to public health crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is slated to leave the public health agency at the end of next month. The official assumed office on the day President Joe Biden was inaugurated and played a central role in the administration\u2019s response to COVID, which involved the continued nationwide rollout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1925465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6105,5097,6350,4964,4591,3799,25962,25961],"class_list":["post-1925464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-agency","tag-cdc","tag-director","tag-health","tag-leave","tag-public","tag-rochelle","tag-walensky"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925464","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}