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Jun 21, 2023 · Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer. The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic.
- ‘The Need For Change’
- ‘The CDC Alone Can’T Fix This’
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Walensky’s supporters point to her success in overseeing the vaccination of millions of Americans against Covid, the successful effort to control the mpox outbreak of 2022, and her efforts to improve the CDC. But her critics, including many Republicans in Congress, see Walensky as responsible for confusing public health messaging that didn’t help e...
Walensky was appointed in December 2020 by then-President-elect Biden. As the head of Massachusetts General Hospital’s infectious disease division and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Walenksy was widely respected in public health circles for her work, including decades of HIV research. But her lack of experience navigating a fede...
Both the Covid and mpox crises raised fundamental questions about the way the CDC functions within the federal government. Allegations from lawmakers that the nation’s premier public health agency has been compromised by political pressure did not end with the Trump administration, they just started to come from Republicans. At the same time, publi...
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Jun 20, 2023 · Health News. News. Homepage. Outgoing CDC Director Says Resignation Spurred by Sense of Accomplishment and Exhaustion. The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said...
Sep 23, 2021 · But Dr. Kathleen Dooling of the CDC explained, there's flexibility. It does not need to be six months to the day. KATHLEEN DOOLING: Immunity wanes gradually over time. Therefore, it's...
Jan 1, 2020 · Kathleen Dooling M.D. is a Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2020 Meeting. Appearances ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Contraindications & Precautions. Severe allergic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) after a previous dose or to a component of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Immediate allergic reaction of any severity to a previous dose or known (diagnosed) allergy to a component of the vaccine. Known polysorbate allergy is a precaution to mRNA COVID-19 ...
Dec 1, 2020 · CDC representatives spelled out the allocation plans for phase 1b and 1c, but the advisory committee did not discuss those today. The proposed phase 1b would target "essential workers"—for example, school staff, police, grocery workers, and bus drivers—whereas phase 1c would target adults older than 65 and adults of any age who have high ...
