CDC head talks screwups, 4th doses, omicron’s wave in long-awaited briefing

Photo: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Photo credit: Getty | Bloomberg. Article by Beth Mole. Ars Technica – January 7, 2022.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday held its first COVID-19 press briefing in over a year. The briefing covered a wide range of pandemic-related topics, from the rise in pediatric COVID-19 cases to the trajectory of the omicron wave and the agency’s own missteps in communicating with the public. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky fielded most of the questions herself during the roughly 35-minute phone conference […]

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