Is an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.[1]
Prior to her appointment at the CDC, she was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Early life and education
Walensky was born Rochelle Paula Bersoff in Peabody, Massachusetts[3] to Edward Bersoff and Carol Bersoff-Bernstein.[4]
She was raised in Potomac, Maryland.[5][6]
In 1991, Walensky received a B.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Washington University in St. Louis.[6] In 1995, she received an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. From 1995 to 1998, she trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Walensky then became a fellow in the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. In 2001, she earned an MPH in clinical effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health.[7]
Academic career
Walensky had been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 2001, first as an instructor, then as a professor.[8]
Walensky was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2012-2020, and served as chief of the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017-2020. She served on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic and conducted research on vaccine delivery and strategies to reach underserved communities. Walensky has worked to improve HIV screening and care in South Africa, led health policy initiatives, and researched clinical trial design and evaluation in a variety of settings.[9]
Walensky was Chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health from 2014 to 2015 and has served as a member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011.[10]
She serves on the board of directors of Mass General Brigham.[11]
She has been co-director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2011.[10]
COVID-19
In a paper published in Health Affairs in November 2020, Walensky and her co-authors showed that the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine will be strongly affected by:
- The speed with which the vaccine is produced and administered. Some of the potential vaccines have logistical challenges including the need for ultra-cold storage or requiring two doses.
- The willingness of people to be vaccinated.
- The pandemic’s severity when the vaccine is introduced.[12]
CDC Director
The Biden transition announced Walensky’s presumptive appointment as CDC director on December 7, 2020.[13] Doctors and public health experts widely praised the choice.[14] As the position of director of the CDC does not require Senate confirmation to take office,[15] Walensky’s tenure at the CDC began on January 20, 2021.
On August 3, 2021, Walensky instituted a 60-day extension of a federal COVID-related ban, which had just expired, on landlords evicting their tenants. The extended ban applies only to “counties experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels”, but under the criteria of the ban this covers an area holding 90% of the U.S. population.[16] A previous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services, is generally believed by legal scholars to hold that any such extension, if not enacted by the U.S. Congress, would be considered unconstitutional.[17]
Personal life
Walensky is married to Loren D. Walensky, also a physician-scientist. They have three sons.[18] They are Jewish and members of Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts.[19]
Remember in March when Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, decided to share her private hunch at a White House press briefing? Dr. Walensky intoned, “I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom.”
Many Americans have learned not to trust her feelings about Covid. But what really should concern the citizenry is that the fearful government disease doctor might have been referring to constitutional liberty.
How else can one explain her decision to sign her name to what appears to be an unlawful Tuesday eviction moratorium order? Desperate times call for desperate measures.
But Dr. Walensky’s own data show that the times are much less desperate than they used to be. Her CDC website reports that the seven-day average of daily Covid deaths in the U.S. has fallen in half since her March declaration about her fearful feeling, and has tumbled roughly 90% from the peak levels of early January.
Did President Joe Biden demand that Dr. Walensky sign an order that they both believe to be unconstitutional? The Journal’s Andrew Ackerman and Siobhan Hughes report:The Biden administration Tuesday announced a new federal moratorium on evictions, bowing to pressure from progressive Democrats to revive lapsed tenant protections despite White House officials saying they lacked the legal authority to do so.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ban targets areas that have experienced “substantial or high” levels of Covid-19 transmission and is expected to cover more than 80% of U.S. counties…
The White House had said for days that lawmakers would need to pass legislation to extend the moratorium after a recent Supreme Court decision signaled the CDC couldn’t lawfully extend its moratorium again absent congressional authorization. Tuesday’s decision marks a sharp turnabout for the White House. Administration officials said Monday that Mr. Biden on Sunday had asked the CDC to come up with a new, 30-day eviction moratorium focused on areas with high Covid-19 rates, rather than the monthslong options previously proposed.
But the White House said the CDC said it hadn’t found the legal authority for that action, and signaled it was loath to take an action that could lead to the Supreme Court striking down its public-health powers. Until the Supreme Court slaps down this latest assault on the property rights of landlords, Dr. Walensky’s order asserts that Americans who violate her directive may be subject to criminal penalties including up to a year in jail. Imprisoning people on such dubious grounds is bound to give Americans a sense of impending doom about due process. And for the record, the alleged emergency is a sham, and not just because daily Covid deaths are fortunately far below their levels of early January.
REPORT: Husband Of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Has Received Millions In HHS Grants.
By Mike LaChance – August 6, 2021
Remember all the times Democrats and people in the media insisted that Trump was going to use the power of the White House to enrich his family and friends?
Well it turns out this may have been another case of liberal projection.
The husband of CDC director Rochelle Walensky has reportedly received millions in HHS grants.
If this is true, doesn’t it look particularly bad during a pandemic?
RedState reports:
New information provided exclusively to RedState by syndicated radio talk show host Howie Carr shows that Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is finding multiple ways to benefit from her new position. Walensky, who took over as director with Biden’s inauguration, is married to Loren D. Walensky, a renowned pediatric oncology researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard.
In October 2019 Loren Walensky became the scientific co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Lytica Therapeutics, “an early-stage biotechnology company working on an innovative platform for developing next-generation antimicrobials.” (LabCentral)
Just four months later, Walensky’s Lytica received a $16.9 million dollar HHS grant to “develop antibacterial peptides with broad activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria.” Only $5.3 million of that money was initially dispersed to Lytica, and the remaining $11.6 million is scheduled to be disbursed upon the achievement of “certain development milestones.”…
In this particular case Crunchbase, which monitors funding for corporations and nonprofits, shows that the only funding that Lytica has received to date is the $5.3 million allocated from the grant received.
Again, the only funding this new company has received to date – nearly two years after its founding – is the $5.3 million allocated from the HHS grant.
The liberal media doesn’t seem very interested in this story. That’s odd, isn’t it?
If CNN ever does mention this story, it will be an attempt to discredit it. Just watch.
((( Walensky is an expert on HIV/AIDS. [2] )))
(1) Anthony Fauci 80’s aids – Bing
(2) Anthony Fauci 80’s aids – Bing video
Latest two weeks’ data from PHE shows 88% of cases in people over 50s were vaccinated. For that age group 88% are double vaccinated and 2% single vaccinated. You’d see similar results if you’d injected saline. There is — no justification for vaccine passes or vaccinating children. They, like flu jabs, continue to provide protection against hospitalisation and death. Devastating New Data From PHE Shows Vaccine Effectiveness Down to 17% and No Reduction in Infectiousness – But Mortality Cut by 77% – The Daily Sceptic
Similar viral loads between #vaccinated and #unvaccinated people.
So, if it doesn’t prevent infection (at all) what kind of “vaccine” is it?
Fauci Admits Covid ‘Vaccines’ Are Spreading Disease (humansarefree.com)
Study: Some vaccinated and unvaccinated people in Wisconsin
have similar COVID-19 viral loads (tmj4.com)
https://www.brighteon.com/16374568-ebe6-4ffe-b4a1-c578b0003b13