{"id":4693,"date":"2023-08-01T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:48:19","slug":"new-biden-cdc-head-pushes-annual-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"New Biden CDC Head Pushes Annual Covid Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4694\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7.png 800w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-7-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The new Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen has announced it is expected that COVID vaccines will become annual like flu shots, prompting critics to point out that they were suspended from social media for predicting the same thing two years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cohen, who become CDC Director at the start of the month told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2023\/07\/27\/cdc-director-covid-shot-annual-\">Spectrum News<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re just on the precipice of that, so I don\u2019t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot, and you get your annual COVID shot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not quite there yet, but stay tuned,\u201d she continued, adding \u201cI think within the next couple of weeks, month we\u2019re going to hear more from our experts on COVID shots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Twitter user noted that he was kicked off the platform in 2021 for suggesting this would happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New CDC Director Mandy Cohen: \u201cWe anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot and you get your annual COVID shot.\u201d<br><br>I was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this back in 2021.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WeeECeh3ym\">https:\/\/t.co\/WeeECeh3ym<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelpsenger\/status\/1685109716182310913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cohen aggressively pushed for COVID restrictions while working as the top health official for North Carolina. She also seemed to find it funny that America was locked down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How big a Covid Nazi was she?<br><br>President Biden reportedly plans to tap longtime federal and state health official Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC after Rochelle Walensky departs at the end of June. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrFigBoOu0\">pic.twitter.com\/KrFigBoOu0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; T (@Rifleman4WVU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rifleman4WVU\/status\/1665190089238953986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New CDC director, Mandy Cohen, gleefully laughs and smiles as she reminisces about imposing abitrary totalitarian restrictions on people during the fake pandemic, throughout which she was Secretary of Health for North Carolina.<br><br>By the way, who uses the &#39;devil horns&#39; hand sign to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sKZb0zzre1\">pic.twitter.com\/sKZb0zzre1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wideawake_media\/status\/1664915939261915137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time she also repeated the lie that COVID vaccines prevent transmission and infection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mandy Cohen, Biden&#39;s pick for new CDC Director in June 2021 discussing the &quot;definitive data&quot; from CDC showing vaccines prevent you from getting or transmitting Covid.<br><br>Everyone makes mistakes, but failing to acknowledge colossal ones like this is disqualifying. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KDrRrTpdQJ\">pic.twitter.com\/KDrRrTpdQJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraPowellEsq\/status\/1664418162312613888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea of annual COVID shots has been pushed by the heads of both Pfizer and Moderna, as they rake in record profits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u00a0voted to add Covid-19 shots to the children\u2019s recommended vaccine schedule last year, despite their being no evidence that the shots reduce transmission, hospitalization, or death in children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/07\/31\/new-biden-cdc-head-pushes-annual-covid-vaccines\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/07\/31\/new-biden-cdc-head-pushes-annual-covid-vaccines\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this\u201d The new Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen has announced it is expected that COVID vaccines will become annual like flu shots, prompting critics to point out that they were suspended from social media for predicting the same thing two years ago. Cohen, who become CDC Director at the start of the month told&nbsp;Spectrum News, \u201cWe\u2019re just on the precipice of that, so I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}