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Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended her agency Sunday after finally recommending last week that fully vaccinated Americans can return to normal life.
After the CDC unveiled the new face mask guidance last week, Republicans immediately accused the Biden administration of a politically motivated decision, pointing to numerous crises facing President Joe Biden.
"While the new mask guidance is encouraging, the CDC and my Far Radical Left colleagues only chose to do this to distract from the consequences of catastrophic policy decisions that have been heard around the world," Rep. Andy Biggs, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said.
"Inflation is rising, the Middle East is in shambles, the working class can't fill up their gas tanks, our border is being overrun and the Biden Administration's leadership is nowhere to be found," he added.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Walensky denied her agency was motivated by politics when issuing their newest guidance.
Instead, Walensky claimed the science had "evolved" over the last two weeks revealing the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
"We now have science that has really just evolved even in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe, they are effective, they are working in the population, just as they did in the clinical trials, that they are working against our variants that we have here circulating in the United States, and that, if you were to develop an infection, while— even if you got vaccinated, that you can't transmit that infection to other people," Walensky said.
In fact, Walensky claimed the "science was really evolving as late as last Thursday."
CDC Dir. Rochelle Walensky defends new mask guidance for vaccinated Americans, telling @MarthaRaddatz: "We now have science that has really just evolved even in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe, they are effective." https://abcn.ws/3olSH6r\u00a0pic.twitter.com/0t0SX6OmXN— This Week (@This Week) 1621170576
Walensky was widely mocked after the interview. As critics pointed out, COVID vaccines have been proving their efficacy for more than five months now.
In fact, countries that have a high percentage of vaccinated people — Israel, the United States, Great Britain, for example — have experienced significant decreases in COVID cases and deaths.
Meanwhile, states that reopened and dropped mask mandates have not seen spikes in cases or deaths.
Despite the "evolved" science, the CDC said over the weekend students should continue to wear face masks in schools.