Why the White House seems to be playing catch-up on coronavirus messaging.
The Tuesday afternoon timing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's official recommendation that individuals who are vaccinated might need toleft White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who had repeatedly insisted in recent days that they did not, as the first public official to face questions on a policy shift White House officials had only recently learned of themselves.
The hands-off approach has at times left his White House scrambling to find its footing in the wake of some of the agency's most consequential moves.It's a stark reversal from the Trump administration, which was accused by some members of its own coronavirus task force of interfering in public health decisions and releasing false information that contradicted the messaging from CDC officials.
"This has been a consistent problem with the CDC," said Dr. Leana Wen, a former Baltimore health commissioner."The same thing happens back in May, where they got the science right but the policy and communications really confused. And that directly led to where we are today."
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