Exclusive: The CDC Responds (with Dr. Rochelle Walensky)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky joins Andy to provide direct answers to today’s toughest questions about COVID-19. They discuss unvaccinated kids, the Delta variant, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. She and Andy have a candid conversation about what it’s like to run the CDC right now and she weighs in on Andy’s most controversial tweet of all time.

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Check out this New England Journal of Medicine study on the transmission of COVID among household contacts of vaccinated people: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2107717
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Read the MMWR Dr. Walensky mentions in today’s episode about anxiety, depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation in public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7026e1.htm?s_cid=mm7026e1_w
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0:53.4	And does it feel weird not having your mask on?
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0:57.3	It doesn't.
0:58.3	I'm vaccinated, right?
0:59.3	So I'm like, well, the CDC says it's okay to not wear a mask.
1:02.2	If you're vaccinated, so I'm like, why is everyone still all maxed up?
1:06.5	Do you have any concerns now that people are- even though people are vaccinated, but do you
1:10.6	have any concerns about getting back to normal?
1:13.9	Do I have concerns?
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