Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted health officials relied too heavily on vaccines as a “cure-all” of sorts for COVID, and said vaccine makers didn’t warn the agency that the vaccines would be less effective against potential variants and admitted that the science, far from being “settled,” is “gray” instead of “black and white.” We need to continue to ask for truth to be revealed.

From Children’s Health Defense. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), became the latest prominent official to contradict key aspects of the official COVID-19 narrative of the past two years.

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In a March 3 appearance at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Walensky was interviewed by Dr. William G. Powderly, co-director of the institution’s Division of Infectious Diseases.

During the interview, Walensky said she learned COVID vaccines were effective from watching CNN. She also admitted health officials relied too heavily on vaccines as a “cure-all” of sorts for COVID, and said vaccine makers didn’t warn the agency that the vaccines would be less effective against potential variants.

She also admitted that the science, far from being “settled,” is “gray” instead of “black and white.”

Walensky said:

“I can tell you where I was when the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective, the vaccine. So many of us wanted to be hopeful, so many of us wanted to say, okay, this is our ticket out, right, now we’re done. So I think we had perhaps too little caution and too much optimism…”

“Nobody said waning, when you know, oh this vaccine’s going to work. Oh well, maybe it’ll work — (laughs) it’ll wear off.”

“Nobody said what if the next variant doesn’t, it doesn’t, it’s not as potent against the next variant….”

From ‘follow the science’ to the science is ‘gray’

In another startling admission, Walensky claimed “the science” is, in fact, not foolproof — a statement that contradicts the prevailing narrative of “follow the science” uttered repeatedly by public officials and numerous media outlets over the past two years.

Walensky said:

“I think the public heard that as the science is foolproof. Science is black and white. Science is immediate, and we get the answer and we make a decision based on the answer….”

“[a]nd science is not always immediate. And sometimes it takes months and years to actually find out the answer. But you have to make decisions in a pandemic before you have that answer.”

This statement contradicts the prevailing “the science is settled” narrative heard frequently since 2020, which left no room for any questioning of “the science” within the public sphere….

This unilateral “follow the science” narrative coming from public health agencies and corporate media over the past two years was described by Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary as “using science as political propaganda.” Makary said, “the absolute worst” studies came from the CDC.

Walensky also referenced the myriad health consequences stemming from COVID-related restrictions, such as mask and vaccine mandates and lockdowns, admitting public health officials didn’t sufficiently acknowledge or emphasize them.

As Walensky stated, there are “so many other things we are counting that don’t make the headlines,” including “opioid deaths, mental health challenges, cancer screenings, deferred elective surgeries….”

Walensky touts transparency, despite recent examples to the contrary

Walensky also stated during her appearance at Washington University that she was “proud of our ability to get data out,” referring to getting vaccine-related data out to the public.

According to Walensky, the CDC operated a “pedal-to-the-metal” system of data analysis and assimilation, leading to data on vaccine effectiveness being published, on average, every 48 hours….

These comments, however, contradict several recent revelations concerning the CDC and vaccine data transparency.

As reported by The New York Times on Feb. 28, the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were aware that COVID vaccines were only 12% effective in children under the age of 5, but withheld this information from the public in advance of an expert meeting that had been scheduled for Feb. 15. The FDA canceled the meeting at the last minute.

According to the Times:

“Experts worried that the news would further dissuade hesitant parents from immunizing their children….”

The same Times report referenced similar concerns, which had previously been expressed by public health officials in Scotland, who announced that they would no longer publicize data on COVID hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status “because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups….”

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(Excerpt from Children’s Health Defense. Photo Credit: Mat Napo on Unsplash)