CDC's Director Walensky to resign June 30
CDC's director resignation came on same day CDC drops Community Level tracking and WHO says COVID emergency is over
A number of COVID-related announcements landed last week on May 5.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky announced she was resigning effective June 30.
“The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director,” Walensky wrote in a press statement. “I took on this role, at your request, with the goal of leaving behind the dark days of the pandemic and moving CDC – and public health – forward into a much better and more trusted place.”
Walensky added, “In the process, we saved and improved lives and protected the country and the world from the greatest infectious disease threat we have seen in over 100 years.”
The press release from the CDC on Walensky’s resignation incredibly claims that “Walensky helped restore morale and a sense of normalcy to an agency that had been enduring significant public adversity related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Her resignation follows testimony in front of Congress by teacher union head Randi Weingarten, whose organization, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was instrumental in influencing CDC guidance that kept schools shuttered.
Lawmakers grilled Weingarten on AFT’s role in keeping schools closed and Weingarten admitted in her testimony that she had Walensky’s direct contact number.
On May 5, the CDC also dropped its Community Level spread tracking of COVID-19, but instead will just continue to track hospitalizations. Community Level spread tracking was the key component in K-12 school guidance being used by school districts to force children back into remote learning.
Also on May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) also announced that the COVID-19 global emergency was officially over.
“It’s with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said while adding, “That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat.”
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While the CDC was dropping Community Level tracking, Walensky resigned, and the WHO rescinded the COVID-19 global emergency all happened on May 5, another piece of information was released that day by the public health watchdog group U.S. Right To Know:
“White House received prescient warning two years before the pandemic”
According to U.S. Right To Know, an email the group obtained shows that “The National Security Council received a warning about the Wuhan Institute of Virology two years before the deadly coronavirus pandemic.”
“Concerns about China’s first maximum security lab and bat coronaviruses had reached the highest levels of the U.S. national security apparatus by December 2017 — two years before COVID-19 first emerged in Wuhan,” U.S. Right To Know’s article states.
The article goes on to reference two other cables released in 2020 by the Washington Post that underscore the lack of biohazard security in the Wuhan, China lab as laid out in the email obtained by U.S. Right To Know.