Repeatedly during the Covid-19 pandemic, Director Walensky has “said things she didn’t mean to say” or was late in agreeing with what the rest of the world knew to be true- Covid was aerosolised. Her lack of integrating work from outside the US & including information from WHO delayed the US from protecting its people. Further, she’s sided with business time & again over the goals of public health. How can a public health director choose big business over the needs of the people who rely on the biggest health dept to keep them safe? 

Further, her handling of Monkeypox has been beyond atrocious. Denying that this version can be transmitted by aerosol, when epidemiologists in the US & worldwide were saying, yes it seems to be the case, is just refusing to acknowledge science. Then to continue to press a homophobic approach when not everyone in the US getting monkeypox is gay men is not only wrong, it is going to get gay people killed. In fact, not stressing that most are contracting MPX through clothes, sheets, towels, hugs, kisses, etc, is poor administrative work on her part. It’s a failure when kids catch it from other kids and it spreads far and wide once kids are in school. 

It’s for this reason, we DEMAND Rochelle Walensky to be fired from her position as CDC DIRECTOR. She has repeatedly failed as a public health director and allowed herself to be swayed by big business & personal beliefs which can harm others. We cannot have that in a CDC Director.