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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Outgoing CDC director says resignation spurred by sense of accomplishment and exhaustion

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during the House Oversight and Accountability select subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus pandemic at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Departing CDC chief urges Congress to help the agency restore reputation after COVID-19 failures

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walensky submitted her resignation Friday, May 5, 2023, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to depart next month, citing pandemic transition

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies at a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On March 23, 2022, Dr. Walensky said her agency is tracking the BA.2 omicron subvariant that caused spikes overseas but the strain, but that it does not appear to make infected persons any sicker and is not straining hospital capacity. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

CDC’s call for people to mask up for flu, RSV provokes backlash due to thin evidence it works

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 6, 2020, file photo, the headquarters for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shown in Atlanta, Georgia. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 voted that the agency should update its recommended immunization schedules to add the COVID-19 vaccine, including to the schedule for children. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Three-quarters of CDC workforce is working remotely all or most of the time, report says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC director tests positive for COVID again

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sign stands at the entrance of their offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

CDC director announces organization shake-up aimed at speed

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. The spread of monkeypox in the U.S. in 2022 could represent the dawn of a new sexually transmitted disease, or it could yet be contained. Or it might be too early to tell. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Monkeypox virus could become entrenched as new STD in the U.S.

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

People stand in long lines to receive the monkeypox vaccine at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

U.S. officials: States getting more monkeypox vaccine soon

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

In this file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP) **FILE**

CDC relaxes masks guidance in major change to agency’s view of risk

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A middle school principal walks the empty halls of his school as he speaks with one of his teachers to get an update on her COVID-19 symptoms, Friday, Aug., 20, 2021, in Wrightsville, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

CDC recommends shorter COVID isolation, quarantine time

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

A health care worker receives a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot at Jackson Memorial Hospital Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) ** FILE **

CDC panel advances plan for mix-and-match booster vaccines for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky receives her flu shot on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 in Atlanta. The U.S. is gearing up in case of a bad flu season on top of the continuing COVID-19 crisis, with a plea Thursday for Americans to get vaccinated against both. (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases via AP)

U.S. health experts urge flu shots to avoid ‘twindemic’

By LAURAN NEERGAARD Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY 2022 budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

CDC head acknowledges confusion over vaccine boosters

Associated Press

In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo resident of Harmony Court Assisted Living receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Jackson, Miss. With booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine now authorized in the U.S., government advisers reconvened on Thursday, Sept. 23, to tackle the most contentious question yet: Exactly who should roll up their sleeves right away? (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

CDC leader adds people with risky jobs to COVID-19 booster list

By Lauran Neergaard and Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

In this Monday, July 19, 2021, photo, shoppers wear masks inside of The Cool store in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday, July 27, 2021, on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

CDC reverses mask guidance in high-transmission areas

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2021, photo, Karen Martin receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic hosted by James River Church West Campus in conjunction with Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield, Mo. Missouri's health department is reporting the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases since the dead of winter, and the association representing the state's hospital has warned that the health care system is potentially on the brink of a crisis. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP) **FILE**

CDC head says rise in COVID variant cases is ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this May 19, 2021, file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY 2022 budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington. Walensky said Wednesday, June 30 the CDC is leaving it up to local officials to set guidelines for mask-wearing as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus surges in areas with low vaccination rates. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

CDC chief: Vaccinated persons are protected from the delta variant

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on the Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

CDC blows it (again) with mangled mask-mandate message

By Joseph Curl

The sight of protective masks in public will start to fade away as totally vaccinated Americans feel safe to go out without them. (Associated Press/File)

CDC: Mask policy driven by ‘evolving science,’ not Joe Biden

By Tom Howell Jr. and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times