Biden Expertly Takes a Swipe at Manchin and Sinema Who ‘Vote Extra With My Republican Buddies’

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was again forced to clarify basic facts to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy as his network has suggested, without evidence, that the CDC’s decision to change the mask policy was a political decision to divert attention from other issues.

These are two of Fox News’ mobile alerts about the decision to announce fully vaccinated Americans that they can now forego social distancing protocols including wearing masks.

So the correspondent of the conservative network in the White House, Peter Doocy, who is not a doctor, immunologist, virologist or scientist, tried to make news.

“There are many questions at the time of the CDC’s announcement yesterday,” he said after Fox News has been actively disseminating false information about masks and the coronavirus for almost a year. “So, has anyone in the Biden Administration or the Biden Administration updated these guidelines for political reasons?”

“No,” answered Psaki.

“What was the medical or scientific reason – what was the big break on that yesterday?” Asked Doocy.

(Yesterday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky spent about 30 minutes discussing the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in the US and the reasons the CDC decided to change its guidelines now in a national press conference with the American people. Among those reasons are two studies showing the incredible effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.)

“Well, I know that Dr. Walensky conducted an extensive number of interviews yesterday to answer that exact question, but since we’ve been talking quite a bit about the CDC here, not just Dr. Walensky, but through her entire team of health and medical experts, “are constantly reviewing the data to make sure they can provide accurate and timely guidance to the American people,” said Psaki. “So based on three factors she talked about yesterday, vaccines work in the real world, we’ve seen a lot of studies on them, including internally in the federal government. Vaccines stand up to the variants that at different times gave cause for concern to continue masking, even if after vaccination and vaccinated people they are less likely to transmit the virus – this is how they came to the decision, and it made it yesterday when the announcement was made Decision conveyed. “

Doocy ignored all of the science and reasons that both Dr. Walensky and Psaki had cited as well, and provided his own reasons for why he felt the mask mandate should continue.

“If you just look at the CDC website, only 45.6% of US adults were fully vaccinated by yesterday on the way here, with only 58.9% of the adult population having at least one dose. So what happened to President Biden’s statement in March that he thought lifting mask mandates before every adult American was given an injection was ‘Neanderthal thinking’? “

“Well, let me start by saying that the President, our North Star, listened to the guidance of our health and medical experts in teams, and that is exactly what we are doing in this case. And to reiterate, the CDC, doctors, and medical experts there were the ones who determined how these guidelines would be based on their own data and what the schedule would be. This was not a decision led by the White House. It was informed that the White House had been informed of this decision just to reassure the people, ”added Psaki.

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