Rochelle Walensky

FEMA’s mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston is ramping up its vaccine supply beginning Wednesday in a bid to increase vaccinations in the Bay State. The Hynes Convention Center is one of 21 federally backed vaccination sites across the nation. For the next eight weeks, the site will administer 6,000 more doses daily than the 1,000…

The Vaccination Site at the Hynes Convention Center is getting a major increase supply of COVID vaccine doses.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Tuesday implored people in Massachusetts and beyond to wear masks and practice social distancing to prevent a possible new wave of the coronavirus pandemic. During a tour of the FEMA mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Walensky doubled down on her remarks…

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, toured the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on Tuesday to see one of the state’s FEMA mass vaccination sites.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky addresses COVID-19 and vaccine distribution at the Hynes Convention Center on Tuesday.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky is sounding the alarm over a possible fourth surge in COVID-19 cases as health experts deem Massachusetts among the “areas of greatest concern.” The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to “just hold on a little longer,” Monday. When cases rise as they have over the last week or so,...

Head of the CDC Dr. Rochelle Walensky is sounding the alarm over a possible fourth surge in COVID-19 cases as health experts label Massachusetts among the “areas of greatest concern.”

Dr. Rochelle Walensky made an emotional plea Monday as COVID cases across the country continue to rise.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an impassioned plea to Americans not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19, warning of a potential “fourth wave” of the virus as cases in the U.S. rose 10% over the last week.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday that new data shows that the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines both show high levels of effectiveness after one dose and were successful in preventing both symptomatic and asymptotic infections.

During a coronavirus response press conference on Monday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky went off script to issue an emotional plea for Americans to continue to be vigilant and prevent a fourth wave of the virus. “I so badly want to be done. I know you all so badly want to be done,” Walensky said. “We are just almost there, but...

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rochelle Walensky says she is concerned about the leveling off in recent declines of COVID-19 cases across the country.

Doctors and infectious disease experts are voicing concerns over new COVID-19 strains that could reverse recent trends of declining cases and hospitalizations. If coronavirus variants continue to rapidly increase, it would pose “a threat that could reverse the recent positive trends we are seeing,” according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. It remains...

The nation’s top doctors, including Dr. Anthony Faucci, are concerned that COVID mutations like those found in South Africa, the UK and Brazil, could undo the recent progress.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in her second day as head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is already executing on plans to fulfill President Joe Biden’s promise to administer 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine in his first 100 days. “We recognize that this is the most immediate emergency — to get this country back to health,”…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky takes the helm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a time when the virus’ American death toll eclipsed 400,000, with 100,000 to come by the middle to end of February at the current pace.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 51, an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, was sworn in Wednesday. She takes the helm at a time when the virus’s U.S. death toll has eclipsed 400,000 and continues to accelerate.

The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving at an agency that has been relegated to the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Dr. Rochelle Walensky of Massachusetts General Hospital to lead the CDC.

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a move praised by many of her colleagues. Dr. Rochelle Walensky began her career at the height of the AIDS crisis. She rose to the director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s infectious disease division, and she will be in charge of...