Rochelle Walensky makes Gretchen Whitmer look good.
Posted on 04/12/2021 6:02:25 PM PDT by lightman
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put forth an opposing view to the Michigan governor’s administration Monday about how to deal with the CCP virus surge, saying the answer to Michigan’s “acute situation” with the virus is not to surge vaccines but to shut down the state and “flatten the curve.”
“The answer to that is to really close things down to go back to our basics, to go back to where we were last spring—last summer—and to shut things down, to flatten the curve,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a Monday press briefing.
“For example, we know that if vaccines go in arms today, we will not see an effect of those vaccines, depending on the vaccine, for somewhere between two to six weeks. So, when you have an acute situation, an extraordinary number of cases like we have in Michigan, the answer is not necessarily to give the vaccine. In fact, we know that the vaccine will have a delayed response,” Walensky added.
On Friday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on the Biden administration to increase supplies of the vaccine to Michigan, particularly the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, to deal with the rising cases.
“The variance in Michigan that we are facing right now won’t be contained if we don’t ramp up vaccinations as soon as possible,” Whitmer said. “We need an additional supply of the one-shot J&J vaccine, which we believe is vital to our strategy of rapidly distributing vaccines and slowing the rise of spread. From public health research we know that the one-shot vaccine is critical to protect younger Michiganders or those who may have difficulty getting back for a second shot.”
She implored citizens to continue wearing their masks, socially distancing, and not gathering in large groups indoors or going to restaurants.
Walensky was responding to a reporter’s question about remarks made Sunday by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, who said the Biden administration should have increased vaccine supplies to Michigan to deal with the rise in hospitalizations and spread of the variant.
“It’s a request that’s been made for weeks now, and I think we should have done it weeks ago,” Gottlieb said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Whitmer echoed Gottlieb’s sentiments about the need for more vaccines in her state. “So, I’m urging the federal government to create a vaccination surge program to help states like Michigan now because it’s Michigan and the Midwest today, and tomorrow or next week it could be the Northeast or the south or another part of our country.”
But Walensky said the effect of vaccines is delayed, and is therefore not a viable strategy for dealing with the current surge.
“I think if we tried to vaccinate our way out of what is happening in Michigan, we would be disappointed that it took so long for the vaccine to work, to actually have the impact,” added Walensky.
Walensky added that other states also need the vaccine, “and we don’t know where the next place is going to be that it’s going to surge.”
White House officials say they are not allocating doses to states based on surges, but by population. However, Whitmer did say that the federal government has pledged more therapeutics, mobile units, testing supplies, and vaccinators for Michigan to help with the hot spots.
White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said during Monday’s briefing that the variants present in Michigan are also present in other states and his officials have to “follow the science.”
“Our ability to vaccinate people quickly in all of each of those states—rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing Whack-a-Mole—isn’t the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out,” Slavitt said at a briefing. Michigan has the second-highest number of the UK variant of the CCP virus.
Rochelle Walensky makes Gretchen Whitmer look good.
Looks like a feed bag for a horse......s ass.
Just two weeks.
Fifty-six weeks ago.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Hello out there.
Anyone of sentient intelligence still believe that collection of Democrats, er, “doctors”?
Which Counties are the problem?
Those that went for Jao Xi Din?
So is the side effect when you lockdown to “flatten the curve” you extend the life of the virus so that you get more variants?
Definitely a methane-catcher.
Which Counties are the problem?
Those that went for Joa Xi Din?
Michigan’s ‘State Symbol’ and Flag are a male and female GOAT fighting?
OMFG! That explains SO MUCH, LOL! ;)
Center for Democrat Control
Open
Everything
Now
“Flatten the curve” aka prolong the misery.
Close ‘em down again...they voted for it! (However, I have good friends there on our side and hate to see them suffer because of the moron gene pool in Detroit.)
Good question!
Are we sure this wasn’t posted in Babylon Bee? “Flatten the curve?”
But so many people are just willing to bend over and grab their ankles and say “thank you”.
"Flatten the curve"...isn't that what Monica said about Clinton?😎
MI suckers
Thank You Ma’am, may we have another 2 Weeks!
Shut us down, Please!
/demasochist-mode-off
CDC- Crap Diarrhea Crap
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