{"id":515215,"date":"2021-05-16T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=515215"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:05:20","slug":"cdcs-walensky-the-science-has-really-just-evolved-in-the-last-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdcs-walensky-the-science-has-really-just-evolved-in-the-last-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC\u2019s Walensky: The Science \u2018Has Really Just Evolved\u2019 In The Last Two Weeks"},"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%2Fcdcs-walensky-the-science-has-really-just-evolved-in-the-last-two-weeks%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=515215&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-16-at-2.28.24-PM-e1621201175906.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC\u2019s Martha Raddatz Sunday the reversal on mask guidance had come as a result of rapidly evolving science.<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz pressed Walensky during a Sunday morning appearance on \u201cThis Week,\u201d asking what had prompted the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/27\/rochell-walensky-cdc-releases-new-mask-guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC<\/a> to so abruptly abandon <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/16\/dana-bash-cdc-rochelle-walensky-mask-mandates-vaccine-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mask recommendations<\/a> for vaccinated Americans and why she hadn\u2019t mentioned that possibility during a Senate hearing just days earlier. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/susan-collins-cdc-director-covid-guidelines-rochelle-walensky\/\">(RELATED: Susan Collins Says The Golden Era Of Respect She Once Had For The CDC Is Over)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just Tuesday when you sat before a Senate committee and you were adamant then that masking and social distancing should remain in place,\u201d Raddatz began, citing a Washington Post report indicating the decision to lift some restrictions may have already been made by then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it was finally announced on Thursday, it came as a huge surprise, and it left some administration officials, doctors and businesses off guard. Why so suddenly, and why did you not tell the Senate panel what you had decided?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, let\u2019s celebrate this moment,\u201d Walensky replied, noting the dramatic drop off in coronavirus infections in recent weeks and the widespread availability of multiple effective vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have science that has really just evolved even in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey are effective, they are working in the population just as they did in the clinical trials that they are working against our variants that we have here circulating in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of that science was really evolving as late as last Thursday, and one of the papers was published from the CDC just before yesterday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/cdc-director-masks-guidelines-hard-to-let-go-rochelle-walensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walensky<\/a> added, saying that experts had been evaluating the latest data even as she sat in the Senate to testify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the American people I would deliver the science as soon as we had it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz continued to press, noting that the removal of federal guidance recommending masks left regulations up to local communities, individual businesses, and ultimately, up to individual people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut who is supposed to \u2014 who is supposed to be the vaccination police?\u201d she asked. \u201cYou look at Costco and Walmart, these essential workers. What are they supposed to do? They\u2019re \u2014 again, there\u2019s a quarter of the country that says they will not get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking people to take their health into their own hands, to get vaccinated, and if they don\u2019t, then they continue to be at risk. For the unvaccinated, our policy has not changed,\u201d Walensky replied. \u201cThis \u2014 we were going to get to a place in this pandemic where vaccinated people were going to be able to take off their masks. We\u2019re lucky to be there with the science that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC\u2019s Martha Raddatz Sunday the reversal on mask guidance had come as a result of rapidly evolving science.Raddatz pressed Walensky during a Sunday morning appearance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278267,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-16-at-2.28.24-PM-e1621201175906.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CDC\u2019s Walensky: The Science \u2018Has Really Just Evolved\u2019 In The Last Two Weeks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-16-at-2.28.24-PM-e1621201175906.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CDC\u2019s Walensky: The Science \u2018Has Really Just Evolved\u2019 In The Last Two Weeks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515215","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}