Dr. Rochelle Walensky says scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were "muzzled" and "diminished" by the Trump team, especially during the pandemic. She aims to fix that.
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Many Americans don’t know what to believe about COVID-19 because public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have flip-flopped so many times on so many issues it’s hard to keep
Vaccination rollout has been going well. Nearly 15% of Americans have received the vaccine, and former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimates 250 million doses will have been delivered to some 150 million people by the end of March.
Hospitalizations and death rates are also down. The daily hospital admission rate has sunk 60% since its peak on Jan. 9, and deaths have dropped by nearly 39%, according to the White House coronavirus task force. In two weeks, the number of counties with coronavirus transmission in the “red” zone, which has the highest rate of contagion, has gone from 90% to 60%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.