America’s top health agency has rowed back on a bold claim made by its director that ‘vaccinated people do not carry the virus’.
Dr Rochelle Walensky, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a TV interview this week: ‘Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that is not just in the clinical trials but it’s also in real world data.’
The CDC has now distanced itself from her claim, issuing a statement saying that ‘the evidence isn’t clear’ and its director was ‘speaking broadly’.