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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky went off script at a briefing Monday and made an emotional plea to Americans not to let up on public health measures amid fears of a fourth wave.
What they’re saying: “I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom,” Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears. “We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge.”
Driving the news: The White House coronavirus response team is seeking to confront the current dichotomy in the U.S., in which immense optimism from the speed of the vaccine rollout must be balanced with continued restraint in moving forward with normalcy.
– “The thing that’s different this time is we actually have it in our power to be done with this scale of vaccination and that will be so much slower if we have another surge to deal with as well,” Walensky said.
– “I’m speaking today not necessarily as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer. I so badly want to be done. I know you all so badly want to be done. We are just almost there, but not quite yet.”
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NEW: CDC director warns of "impending doom" of "fourth surge" as COVID cases increase https://t.co/136rKTqpnf
— Axios (@axios) March 29, 2021
"Right now, I'm scared," a visibly shaken Walensky said, as new cases are topping 30 million in the U.S. and deaths are once again averaging about 1,000 a day.https://t.co/Nj5pquTSSW pic.twitter.com/tIAbyS2i4P
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