A top Biden administration official’s own agency is on cleanup duty after she asserted government data shows vaccinated people do not carry COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the clarification on Tuesday, saying Director Rochelle Walensky was speaking “broadly” during a recent interview on MSNBC when she was referring to a study looking at the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
“It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19. The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence,” an agency spokesperson told the New York Times.
Walensky drew backlash from the scientific community because of her comments in an interview with host Rachel Maddow on Monday. “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data,” she said.
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The CDC director also made headlines on Monday, when she cited a sense of “impending doom” as rates of new cases and hospitalizations due to the coronavirus climb again.
