{"id":1949319,"date":"2023-06-16T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-picks-covid-19-vaccine-proponent-as-next-cdc-director\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:07:20","slug":"biden-picks-covid-19-vaccine-proponent-as-next-cdc-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-picks-covid-19-vaccine-proponent-as-next-cdc-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden selects vaccine advocate as new CDC chief."},"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\">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%2Fbiden-picks-covid-19-vaccine-proponent-as-next-cdc-director%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=1949319&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0616\/d97ebb80-60bd-45f1-9e5b-4fd8228f06d9\/audio.mp3?length=4559949&#038;duration=380\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>President Biden Chooses Dr. Mandy Cohen as CDC Director<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden has selected Dr. Mandy Cohen, a strong advocate for COVID-19 vaccines, to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This decision comes as the current director prepares to step down later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Cohen as one of the nation&#8217;s top physicians and health leaders, Biden expressed confidence in her ability to protect Americans&#8217; health and safety. Cohen, who previously served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-cuomo-shunned-experts-embraced-lobbyists-drove-top-health-officials-to-quit-over-pandemic-response-report\/\" title=\"NY Gov. Cuomo Shunned Experts, Embraced Lobbyists, Drove Top Health Officials To Quit Over Pandemic Response: Report\">top health official<\/a> in North Carolina, brings a wealth of experience to the role.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Aledade, a healthcare company, Cohen worked in the federal government&#8217;s Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services during the Obama administration. She is set to take over from Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who praised Cohen&#8217;s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and her ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-picks-covid-19-vaccine-proponent-as-next-cdc-director\/\" title=\"Biden selects vaccine advocate as new CDC chief.\">tackle future public health challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Vaccine Proponent<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout her tenure in North Carolina&#8217;s government, Cohen consistently advocated for COVID-19 vaccines, prioritizing their benefits while downplaying concerns about side effects. She urged the public to take action by staying home, avoiding crowds, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Although clinical trials showed efficacy against symptomatic infection, the vaccines did not provide evidence of protection against infection or transmission, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Despite evidence of waning protection, Cohen maintained that the vaccines were remarkably effective and encouraged booster shots.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen also supported COVID-19 vaccine mandates and took measures to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-precedent-military-to-enforce-lockdowns-in-australias-largest-city\/\" title=\"\u2018Dangerous Precedent\u2019: Military To Enforce Lockdowns In Australia\u2019s Largest City\">enforce lockdown orders<\/a>. However, she has not publicly discussed the vaccines since late 2021.<\/p>\n<h3>Flailing Trust<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the CDC&#8217;s recommendation for vaccination, the public&#8217;s trust in the vaccines remains low. Only a small percentage of children under 4 have received the vaccine, along with a fraction of the general population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has selected Dr. Mandy Cohen, a strong advocate for COVID-19 vaccines, as the upcoming director of the CDC. Dr. Cohen, previously a prominent health official in North Carolina, will assume leadership once the current director departs. Biden made this announcement on June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1949320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[11898,3620,5097,5772,13248,3954],"class_list":["post-1949319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-advocate","tag-biden","tag-cdc","tag-chief","tag-selects","tag-vaccine"],"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\/1949319","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}