Thu Nov 10, 2022 – 4:26 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky challenged Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky for insisting that her numerous COVID-19 vaccines made her recent bout with the virus milder than it would have otherwise been, suggesting instead that her case illustrated the failure of the shots.
Walensky tested positive for COVID twice last month, first on October 21 and then on October 30 after testing negative following a course of the government-recommended therapeutic Paxlovid.
“Thank you to my family and CDC staff for support while I recovered from COVID-19,” she tweeted Tuesday. “I am fortunate to have only had mild symptoms, which I credit to being up to date on my #COVID19 vaccines. COVID-19 vaccines may not prevent every infection, but they do provide us important protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. My updated #COVID19 vaccine helped ensure my immune system was equipped to protect me against severe illness.”
Massie, a consistent critic of the federal COVID response, responded by noting that the director had been “sidelined for three whole weeks,” and that COVID is “a simple
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