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CDC DIRECTOR FACT-CHECKED ON MYOCARDITIS

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Soft-spoken CDC Director Mandy Cohen has taken to posting regularly on social media, making claims that are often hard to back with peer-reviewed science. Well this time she went too far for Jefferey Jaxen and Del Bigtree, compelling Del to demonstrate just how far off she was on a recent claim she made about the risks of myocarditis in the unvaccinated, versus the vaccinated. Del demonstrates!

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0:00.0

The one of the most important issues I have come up from these vaccines, we have the cancers

0:04.2

and the blood clots, but that myocarditis has so much science behind it and so many doctors

0:09.4

and academics standing up and saying, no, we're done here.

0:12.0

This is this is the line in the sand from COVID-19.

0:14.6

So we had Mandy Cohen.

0:16.1

She's the CDC director.

0:17.2

She stepped in and she, her primary goal is to bring integrity and trust back to the

0:22.1

CDC, back to an agency that lost it during the COVID pandemic because Rochelle Olinsky basically

0:27.6

went out there and was changing the messaging all the time and was really not a science

0:32.8

based communicator.

0:34.1

So all eyes were on Mandy Cohen.

0:36.2

What was she going to do with this, with this promise?

0:38.5

Well, here's what she did on CDC's Twitter page.

0:43.0

Hi everyone, Dr. Mandy Cohen from the CDC.

0:46.0

I wanted to talk today about the COVID-19 vaccine and kids.

0:50.3

While we know kids are less impacted than adults from COVID, the unfortunate news is that

0:55.1

kids can still get sick and sometimes really sick from COVID-19 just like adults.

1:01.8

In fact, half of the very young kids who ended up in the intensive care unit with COVID

1:07.8

had no underlying medical reason to make us think they would get sick.

1:12.8

They didn't have asthma or another underlying condition.

1:16.3

The COVID virus just made them really sick.

1:19.6

Second, the vaccine is safe for all kids over six months.

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