Exclusive: The CDC Responds (with Dr. Rochelle Walensky)

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky joins Andy to provide direct answers to today’s toughest questions about COVID-19. They discuss unvaccinated kids, the Delta variant, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. She and Andy have a candid conversation about what it’s like to run the CDC right now and she weighs in on Andy’s most controversial tweet of all time.

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Check out this New England Journal of Medicine study on the transmission of COVID among household contacts of vaccinated people: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2107717 

Watch Dr. Walensky speak about her feeling of ‘impending doom’ back in March: https://youtu.be/hL9doW9y90k 

Read the MMWR Dr. Walensky mentions in today’s episode about anxiety, depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation in public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7026e1.htm?s_cid=mm7026e1_w 

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