Immediately after President Biden’s inauguration, CDC director Rochelle Walensky told reporters,
“There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. So while we are implementing the criteria of the Advisory Committee and of the state and local guidances to get vaccination across these eligible communities, I would also say that safe reopening of schools is not — that vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools.”
The White House immediately (and preposterously) distanced itself from this statement, claiming that the CDC director had spoken “in her personal capacity” on a White House press teleconference. And the CDC later knuckled under to political pressure from malingering teachers unions, aiming for the unambitious goal of just one-day-a-week in-person schooling at 50% of schools.
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