(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) American infectious disease expert Valensky appointed director of the US Centers for Disease Control
China News Agency, Houston, January 20. American infectious disease expert Dr. Rochelle Walensky officially became the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the 20th.
Valensky recently stated that he will do his best to restore public trust in the CDC.
Valensky, 51, is a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Prior to this, she was the director of the Massachusetts Central Hospital, in charge of the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
She was an AIDS research expert at the CDC.
During the new crown epidemic, Varensky served as a member of the Massachusetts Epidemic Advisory Group and helped formulate the state's epidemic prevention plan.
She has also repeatedly spoken out, criticizing the Trump administration's epidemic prevention strategy.
According to the Associated Press, US President Biden's transition team nominated Valensky as the director of the CDC on the 6th.
She will go to the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on the 22nd.
She succeeded Dr. Robert Redfield, 69.
Redfield was appointed CDC director by the Trump administration in 2018.
During his tenure, the official in charge has kept a low profile.
In an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on the 19th, Valensky said that one of his first tasks after taking office is to rebuild public trust in the CDC.
Valensky said that the CDC will hold regular press conferences to release relevant data and update guidance and recommendations in a timely manner.
She also said that the reasons for the failure of the new coronavirus detection tool previously launched by the CDC may be reviewed.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the new crown epidemic has exposed some of the CDC's business problems. For example, the new crown virus testing tools that the agency issued to states in February 2020 proved to be flawed, and some universities launched better confirmed case tracking systems. Later, the CDC lost its central position as a data monitoring agency for the new crown epidemic.
In addition, the Trump administration has repeatedly intervened in CDC's epidemic prevention decisions, resulting in a continuous decline in public trust in CDC.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University's new crown epidemic, as of January 20 local time, the new crown epidemic has caused more than 400,000 deaths in the United States.
According to CDC data, there have been at least 122 cases of the mutated new coronavirus discovered in the UK in 20 states.
CDC scientists predict that unless measures are taken to slow the spread of the virus, this mutant virus will become the main strain in March this year.
Valensky said that the epidemic in the United States is expected to continue to spread in the next few weeks.
She emphasized that the top priority to stop the spread of the virus is to persuade people to wear masks and, at the same time, speed up the pace of COVID-19 vaccination.
It is worth noting that the US new crown vaccination work is still far slower than expected.
CDC data shows that the federal government has distributed more than 35.99 million doses of vaccine to states, 16.52 million people have been vaccinated, of which more than 2.16 million have completed two doses of vaccine.
According to comprehensive media news, public health departments in New York, Florida, West Virginia, and San Francisco have indicated that there may be a shortage of new crown vaccines this week.
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