On April 19th CDC director Rochelle Walensky provided witness testimony
to the House Appropriations Committee. She faced a series of questions
regarding all things COVID as the committee was considering the budget
requests for the CDC, the NIH, and the ASPR.
During the hearing, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-Ga) asked Walensky about the popular Cochrane mask review
that was published by a highly respected Oxford research team. This
review emphasized that there’s no evidence showing masks are effective
during a pandemic or that wearing face masks in the community prevents
viral transmission.
Walensky stated,
“I think it’s
notable, that the Editor-in-Chief of Cochrane, actually said that the
summary of the review was…(stumble)…she retracted the summary of that
review and said it was inaccurate.”
But this isn’t true, the summary was never retracted and nothing about it has been changed at all or deemed as inaccurate.
In response to Walensky’s comments, Tom Jefferson, lead author of the Cochrane study said, “Walensky is plain wrong. There has been no retraction of anything.”...<<<Read More>>>...