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CDC Director: ‘We Can Stop This in Its Tracks’ if Everyone Wears Masks Until More Are Vaccinated
Breitbart ^ | 07.31.2021 | Hannah Bleau

Posted on 08/02/2021 3:12:57 AM PDT by USA Conservative

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in an interview with Healthline published Friday that the country can stop the Chinese coronavirus “in its tracks” if everyone wears a mask until more are vaccinated.

Healthline asked the CDC director if she agrees with former CDC director Tom Frieden’s estimation that “we could get to 200,000 new cases a day.”

“I’ve seen modeling data. Some of the modeling data do go up that high. Not all of them do. Do I think it’s possible? Yes, I think it’s possible,” she said.

“What I do want to reiterate, though, is a unified approach as a country would stop this [pandemic] in its tracks. We know what we need to do to stop this virus. It can fall short of many of the things we had to do last year. Do I think we all need to stay home right now? I do not,” she continued before pitching masks as a crucial mitigation strategy.

“But if we are able to get the vast majority of people vaccinated and if, in the meantime until they are fully vaccinated, we had everybody wearing masks, we can stop this in its tracks and really be in a way better place in a relatively short period of time,” she added.

It remains unclear why she believes this action would stop the virus “in its tracks,” given the mass spread of the virus last year, particularly in heavily restricted blue states which had mask mandates in place for months on end.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; chinavrus; covid; democrats
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To: greeneyes

Clowns for Demographic Control.


21 posted on 08/02/2021 3:36:09 AM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: Fresh Wind

The good, expressive one.

:)


22 posted on 08/02/2021 3:37:03 AM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: USA Conservative

Yeah, we’ve heard this shit before.


23 posted on 08/02/2021 3:38:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Salamander

Sorry, the rage is building, then the infantry comes out.


24 posted on 08/02/2021 3:40:42 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: USA Conservative

So in summary, government once again demands “two weeks to flatten the curve.”


25 posted on 08/02/2021 3:41:03 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: USA Conservative

and yet they continue their “work” making new
viruses to patent along with their latest DNAoperating
systems.

they are TRAITORS to Health and the Republic
interested ONLY in their profits and continuing their LIES.


26 posted on 08/02/2021 3:47:29 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: USA Conservative
“I’ve seen modeling data."


27 posted on 08/02/2021 3:48:12 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: sphinx
Walensky is a liar.

The Reproduction Number, Ro , is a measure of how infectious a pathogen is. The higher the number , the more infectious it is.

The reproduction number for the Wuhan Virus Delta variant is reported to be 8-9 which is about as high as it gets. For comparison, the Ro for the cold or the flu is 2, maybe 3. The earlier covid variant had a number of about 2.75

This variant has the same infection rate as chicken pox - which means everyone who is susceptible of catching this virus is going to catch it.

Masks will do little to stop it's spread and may actually increase the spread due to improper disposal of contaminated masks

28 posted on 08/02/2021 3:49:09 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: USA Conservative

“I’ve seen modeling data. Some of the modeling data do go up that high. Not all of them do. Do I think it’s possible? Yes, I think it’s possible,” she said.

So are we supposed to follow the “modeling data” or the “science”?


29 posted on 08/02/2021 3:53:20 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: Salamander

Corona Demons Crappolosa


30 posted on 08/02/2021 3:56:25 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: USA Conservative

Rochelle can SIUHA.


31 posted on 08/02/2021 3:57:29 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It seems they are doing everything they can to prevent natural herd immunity. Had we not been forced to lock down and masked up, we would be nearly free of covid by now.


32 posted on 08/02/2021 4:00:26 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: All

fifteen years to slow the spread


33 posted on 08/02/2021 4:01:00 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: USA Conservative

The CDC’s authority on COVID-19 ended one moment after the two weeks of flattening the curve in the Spring of 2020.


34 posted on 08/02/2021 4:01:15 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: USA Conservative

What a ditz.


35 posted on 08/02/2021 4:06:06 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: USA Conservative

LIAR!!! INCOMPETENT CORRUPT LIAR!


36 posted on 08/02/2021 4:07:57 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: All

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-3/coronavirus-sweden

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa/page/page_0/


37 posted on 08/02/2021 4:08:09 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Salamander

F word?

Facts?


38 posted on 08/02/2021 4:08:14 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Bulwyf

A dear friend has been sending me bagpipe and drum videos for two days.

I’m all jacked up, now.

;D


39 posted on 08/02/2021 4:25:07 AM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: moovova

Well played.

;D


40 posted on 08/02/2021 4:26:54 AM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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