Outgoing CDCgov Director Rochelle Walensky refused to answer questions from GOPoversight Chairman RepJamesComer about social media censorship of medical information on COVID-19 policies and vaccine efficacy.
“Here’s what I can tell you,” Walensky said, “the most important thing that has gotten us out of this pandemic is, I think, our vaccine and how well they work and how safe they are, and it was really important that the American people understood [that].”Walensky was called before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic under the threat of possible subpoena if she did not testify willingly.
When Comer asked Walensky directly about the communications between the CDC and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta or Jack Dorsey’s Twitter concerning censoring information, Walensky repeatedly refused to speak on matters “currently under court litigation.” Later in her testimony, Walensky stressed that before the COVID-19 pandemic, “most people hadn’t heard of the CDC,” noting that the organization “was never really intended for the average [American]” but rather clinicians and medical scientists.
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