Comment: In a normal society, arrest should follow. But in a pathocracy, she'll no doubt be rewarded with promotion...
© Getty ImagesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky will leave her post next month.
"I have never been prouder of anything I have done in my professional career," Walensky, 54, wrote to President Biden, informing him that her last day will be June 30.
She added that she had "mixed feelings" about the move but noted that the end of pandemic-era emergency declarations was an appropriate moment to step down.
The president has yet to announce an interim director to replace the ex-Harvard Medical School infectious diseases specialist, who had no experience running a government health agency when she took office.
Walensky caught flak as leader of the CDC for having bungled the Biden administration's COVID response on issues like school reopening, vaccination and mask mandates.
The Post has exclusively revealed through documents provided by government watchdog Americans for Public Trust that Walensky's CDC let the American Federation of Teachers suggest language for guidelines that kept schools closed for in-person learning months after studies showed children were at low risk of transmitting the virus in classes.
Walensky's predecessor, former CDC Director Robert Redfield, had claimed months before she assumed the role that it was safe for students to return to in-person instruction.
"I think it's really important to get our schools open," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" in July 2020.
Walensky was also one of several members of the Biden administration who falsely claimed in 2021 that those who received the COVID vaccine couldn't spread the virus.
The CDC director walked back that claim days later, admitting that "the evidence isn't clear" and that she was "speaking broadly."
The agency in the same year also removed mask mandates only to reintroduce them months later.
Last August, Walensky took responsibility for several "mistakes" during her tenure.
"For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations," she said in a statement.
Both the US and the World Health Organization no longer designate the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergency.
US deaths due to the virus have declined to their lowest point since the start of the pandemic.
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said of Walensky in a statement: "Her creativity, skill and expertise, and pure grit were essential to our effective response and a historic recovery that made life better for Americans across the country."
You can’t have a coronation during a “pandemic” so that’s the reason why it’s ended when it has.
Can’t have people pointing out the fact they are allowed to lead their privileged lives when it suits them yet at the slightest sneeze the whole nation has to drop everything. But the masses are too fucking dumb to notice.
And seeing as drinking coffee and gardening are now causing strokes/heart attacks, shouldn’t this coronation come with a similar warning!?
On a more serious note, how many people are going to die suddenly today for some extremely baffling reason? Going by the queen’s funeral I’m going to guess a few!! He’ll enjoy that no doubt.