Morning Jolt: CDC’s Rochelle Walensky Overrules Her Own Agency

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On the menu today: CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky decides to overrule her own agency's advisory panel and recommend boosters for workers who interact with the public a lot, calling into question the administration's simplistic and often inaccurate slogan, "follow the science"; a little anecdote about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrates that she's not the principled, fearless truth-teller she likes to style herself as; and The New Yorker declares that I'm too harsh on President Biden.

The Biden Team Doesn't Always 'Follow the Science'

We can now make a pretty good guess about who told President Biden to say that every American they would need a COVID-19 booster shot eight months after their second shot, advice that top officials at the FDA opposed: "The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday overruled a recommendation by an agency advisory panel that had refused to endorse booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for frontline workers. It was a highly ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY September 24 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY September 24 2021 CDC's Rochelle Walensky Overrules Her Own Agency On the menu today: CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky decides to overrule her own agency's advisory panel and recommend boosters for workers who interact with the public a lot, calling into question the administration's simplistic and often inaccurate slogan, "follow the science"; a little anecdote about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrates that she's not the principled, fearless truth-teller she likes to style herself as; and The New Yorker declares that I'm too harsh on President Biden. The Biden Team Doesn't Always 'Follow the Science' We can now make a pretty good guess about who told President Biden to say that every American they would need a COVID-19 booster shot eight months after their second shot, advice that top officials at the FDA opposed: "The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday overruled a recommendation by an agency advisory panel that had refused to endorse booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for frontline workers. It was a highly ...   READ MORE

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