Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rochelle Walensky retracted her previous statement that those vaccinated for COVID-19 “do not get sick” and “do not carry the virus.”
Walensky told a congressional committee that “We’ve had an evolution of science and an evolution of the virus,” adding that her previous statement “is no longer correct with the Omnicron subvariants that we have right now.”
Walensky provided the committee with studies supporting her claim that vaccinated individuals could not transmit the virus, although the papers do not completely support Walensky’s statement.
Reporting from The Epoch Times:
“None of the studies are randomised trials, and they all have various flaws. Irrespective of that they all show—what I think nobody can deny—that a proportion of vaccinated individuals get ill, and when ill they also have positive PCR tests as an indication that they will excrete virus,” Christine Stabell Benn, a health professor at the University of Southern Denmark, told The Epoch Times in an email. “Conclusion: vaccinated individuals can get ill and they can transmit.” ... Just two weeks after Walensky’s initial statement, made during an appearance on MSNBC, the CDC said some 5,800 Americans had contracted COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, with 74 dying. The CDC later stopped counting so-called breakthrough infections as the numbers soared. Data has shown that vaccine protection wanes considerably after several months and starts low against the current Omicron subvariants, with some papers estimating vaccinated people are more likely to become infected over time.
