Dr. Walensky: CDC Delivers Changes As Evolving Medical Data Become Available

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WALENSKY: "First, let’s just acknowledge where we are in this pivotal moment in this pandemic. For 16 months we’ve been telling people, 'Be cautious, be careful, cases are going up. Deaths are still very high.' And for this very moment, we have cases coming down, they’re down a third in the last two weeks, death rates that have never been as low since April of 2020. Things in this pandemic are starting to turn around. And what’s also happening is we’re getting data, evolving data on the science. Just last Thursday, there were two papers that were published in the 'New England Journal,' and just Friday, this past Friday, there was a large study that was published in the MMWR. So taking all of these data together, we’ve been working really actively just this whole last week to try and move the science, move the data to the American people and tell people — deliver the science to them."