New CDC Chief Rochelle P. Walensky warned on March 29, 2021 of her ‘Impending Doom‘ as Covid-19 Cases Rise. The following is a summery of her statement…
“Yesterday, we in America surpassed 30 million cases of COVID-19. CDC’s recent data shows that the 7 day average of new cases is slightly less than 60,000 new cases a day. This is a 10% increase compared to the prior 7 day period. Hospitalizations have also increased. Admissions rose from 4600 to 4800 a day compared to the prior seven day period. And deaths, that typically lag behind cases and hospitalizations, have started to rise, increasing 3% to about 1000 deaths a day.”
“When I fist started at CDC about two months ago, I made a promise to you. I would tell you the truth even if it is not the news you wanted to hear. Now is one of those times when I have to share the truth, and I have to hope and trust that you will listen.”
“I am going to pause here, I am going to loose the script and I am going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom. We have so much to look forward to. So much promise and potential of where we are. And so much reason for hope. But right now I am scared. I know what it is like as a physician to stand in that patient room, gowned, gloved, masked, shielded and to know you will be the last person to touch someone’s loved one, because their loved ones could not be there. I know what it is like when you are the health care provider and you are worried that you do not have the resources to take care of the patient in front of you. I know that feeling of nausea when you read the crisis standards of care, and you wonder if there are going to be enough ventilators to go around, and who is going to make that choice. I know what it is like to pull up to your hospital every day and see the extra morgue sitting outside.”
“So I am speaking today not only as your CDC Director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to hold on just a little while longer. I so badly want to be done, I know you all want to so badly be done, we are almost there but not quite yet. And so I am asking you to just hold on a little longer, to get vaccinated when you can, so that all of those people that we all love, will still be here when this pandemic ends.”