To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes — from testing, to data, to communications.” — Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centres for Disease Control and ...

In the time since she stepped down from her position in June 2023, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, has largely stayed out of the limelight. MedPage Today Washington Editor Joyce ...

Walensky served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When I assumed leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the height of the Covid pandemic ...

WASHINGTON -- The CDC says it plans to update its mask "information" to "best reflect the multiple options available to people and the different levels of protection they provide." At Wednesday's ...

Former CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky worries that a powerful advisory panel hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. could make some childhood vaccines harder to ...

WASHINGTON -- New mask guidance for vaccinated individuals does not grant permission for widespread removal of masks, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on ...

A panel of leading doctors blasted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ failing leadership and declining credibility in a panel discussion surrounding the latest poll of ...

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release guidance on school reopenings in the coming week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Friday, amid rising tensions about ...

"This is our watershed moment," Walensky told CDC employees. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky made a remarkable acknowledgment of her agency's failures during the ...

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tested positive for COVID-19 Friday night. According to a release from the CDC, Walensky is up to date with ...

This story underlines the complexities of scientific decisions that health officials are making in real time during the pandemic. The question is, who should receive an extra shot of a COVID vaccine?

The update marks a sweeping change in CDC guidance for vaccinated Americans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has amended its guidance for fully vaccinated Americans, no longer ...