CDC Director Hits Back At ABC Host’s Hints At Vaccine Passports: We Were Always Going To Get To A Point Where We Could Take Masks Off

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday slammed ABC News host Martha Raddatz for hinting that the federal government is considering implementing vaccine passports. According to Walensky, vaccines are allowing the country to move forward from the COVID pandemic, which is why masks were always temporary.

“You said on Friday that the CDC is ’empowering people to make their own decisions about their own health’ but this is all on the honor system,” Raddatz said. “There are people who refuse to get vaccinated, about a quarter of the country, and who oppose mask-wearing, who could see this as a green light to go wherever they want, putting others at risk, especially in those indoor settings, including children and the immunocompromised.”