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In media news today, a Utah newspaper calls for the National Guard to prevent the unvaccinated from going anywhere, lawmakers call on NBC to cover human rights protests during the Winter Olympics in China, and CNN frets about Biden’s press treatment.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky acknowledged her agency’s poor messaging in recent weeks as the Omicron variant continues to surge in the United States.
“One year into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky acknowledges that she should have communicated certain things better to the American public,” the Wall Street Journal reported about its exclusive interview. “She says the pandemic threw curveballs that she should have anticipated. She thinks she should have made it clearer to the public that new rules and guidelines were subject to change if the nature of the fight against Covid-19 shifted again.”
Rochelle Walensky, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. The hearing is titled “Addressing New Variants: A Federal Perspective on the COVID-19 Response.” Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Walensky told the WSJ, “I think what I have not conveyed is the uncertainty in a lot of these situations.”
According to the WSJ, Walensky has committed to “communicating CDC policy more clearly” and that she is being coached by a media consultant is set to hold more media briefings outside those held at the White House.
There was extreme confusion over the CDC’s guidance on whether those who test positive for COVID with or without symptoms should be isolating and for how long.
NEW YORK TIMES DRAGS CDC DIRECTOR WALENSKY FOR ‘FUMBLING’ COMMUNICATIONS, RELEASING ‘ABRUPT’ GUIDANCE
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