CDC Director Rochelle Walensky using today's WH COVID briefing to deliver a more urgent and emotional call for Americans not to let guard down on pandemic.
She said she was tossing her script to plead with Americans to "just hold on a little while longer"
She said she was tossing her script to plead with Americans to "just hold on a little while longer"
Just yesterday @POTUS also expressed concern that "people are letting their guard down."
"We really need to hold on to the public health measures" as more people get vaccinated, Fauci says, calling this "a race between the vaccine and what's going on with the dynamics of the outbreak. And we can win this by just hanging there a bit longer."
Many states are opening up “at a level we wouldn’t recommend,” Walensky says when asked why cases are rising again. Says she’ll discuss with governors tomorrow.
Fauci says opening up completely would be “premature.”
Fauci says opening up completely would be “premature.”
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