CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tested positive for COVID and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” the agency said in a statement Saturday.
Walensky, who is up-to-date with her vaccines, tested positive on Friday night, the agency said. “Consistent with CDC guidelines, she is isolating at home and will participate in her planned meetings virtually,” the statement said.
The agency added that “CDC senior staff and close contacts have been informed of her positive test and are taking appropriate action to monitor their health.”
Walensky, the former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, started as the CDC’s 19th director in January 2021.
She’s at least the third high-ranking health official to test positive for COVID in the last four months.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Pres. Biden’s top health official, tested positive on June 13. Two days later, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that he also tested positive for the virus.
Saturday’s announcement comes a month after Walensky shared on social media a photo of herself receiving the updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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She may have had all her boostershots, some even 100º, but did she follow all the other protocalls she had the nation suffer through and was still recommending?
Further verification that the vaccine does not stop the China virus, but these fools are still pushing Mandates for it on US and now all our CHILDREN! These mandates need to end NOW.
What is the vaccine really doing? Does anyone really know.
Whoopie do you stay home for a while.
So how’s those booster shots working out Rochelle??
How’s that for Karma??
Oops! She should have taken the vitamin protocol and Ivermectin as a preventative. Stupid idiot.