{"id":589437,"date":"2021-07-12T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589437"},"modified":"2021-07-12T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:06:11","slug":"cnn-medical-expert-urges-we-must-make-life-hard-for-unvaccinated-test-them-twice-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-medical-expert-urges-we-must-make-life-hard-for-unvaccinated-test-them-twice-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Medical Expert Urges We Must Make Life \u2018Hard\u2019 For Unvaccinated, Test Them Twice-Weekly"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcnn-medical-expert-urges-we-must-make-life-hard-for-unvaccinated-test-them-twice-weekly%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=589437&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\/07\/GettyImages-1144692499-scaled-e1617386699495.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Leana Wen, CNN medical contributor and former head of Planned Parenthood,&nbsp;argued that life needs to be made difficult for those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, suggesting they should be barred from public events and forced into twice-weekly testing for the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cIt needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated,\u201d Wen urged. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s kind of the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unvaccinated Americans are still allowed freedom, she complained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at some point these mandates, by workplaces, by schools, I think it will be important to say, \u2018Hey, you can opt out, but if you want to opt out, you have to sign these forms, you have to get twice-weekly testing,\u2019\u201d the CNN contributor said. \u201cBasically, we need to make getting vaccinated the easy choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, Wen argued on CNN that Americans\u2019 freedom should be tied to their COVID-19 vaccination status, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-medical-analyst-narrow-window-exists-to-tie-vaccination-status-to-people-getting-freedoms-back\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"44\">\n<p><em>\u201cMy main concern is that we\u2019re not going to reach herd immunity because of vaccine hesitancy,\u201d Wen said. \u201cAnd I know that\u2019s hard for a lot of people to believe, who desperately want the vaccine right now. And they\u2019re thinking, \u2018Oh, well, it\u2019s just a small percentage of people who are actually anti-vaxxers.\u2019 And that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is the anti-science, anti-vaxxer contingent,\u201d Wen continued. \u201cBut I think that there are many more people, millions of people who, for whatever reason, have concerns about the vaccine, who just don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it for them. And we need to make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing. I mean, you were mentioning, Chris, about how all these states are reopening. They are reopening at 100 percent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd we have a very narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status,\u201d Wen added. \u201cBecause otherwise, if everything is reopened, then what\u2019s the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine? So that\u2019s why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say, \u2018If you\u2019re vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have,\u2019 because otherwise, people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway. And I fear a situation of coming into the fall, where we never reach herd immunity, and then we get hit by the next surge of COVID-19, in the fall, something that we could have prevented, if we just got people vaccinated now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wen exited Planned Parenthood in July 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-planned-parenthood-president-removed-hank-berrien\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported, before landing her gig with CNN.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.338403041825\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrLeanaWen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrLeanaWen<\/a>: The Biden Admin should say to unvaccinated Americans: &#8220;Hey, you can opt out, but if you want to opt out, you have to sign these forms, you have to get twice weekly testing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gsu34HG6jz\">pic.twitter.com\/Gsu34HG6jz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1413866265605718021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/popular-left-wing-site-says-unvaccinated-right-wingers-a-threat-to-national-security-must-face-consequences-until-they-submit\">Popular Left-Wing Site Says \u2018Unvaccinated Right Wingers\u2019 A \u2018Threat To National Security,\u2019 Must Face \u2018Consequences\u2019 Until They&nbsp;Submit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-medical-analyst-narrow-window-exists-to-tie-vaccination-status-to-people-getting-freedoms-back\">CNN Medical Analyst: \u2018Narrow Window\u2019 Exists To Tie \u2018Vaccination Status\u2019 To People Getting Freedoms&nbsp;Back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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