In the weeks and months ahead, the Biden-Harris administration will take key steps to dramatically increase #vaccinations in this country. Read more about our plan in USA TODAY:
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Thank you Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 for having me on In the Bubble, and for the great conversation about getting to work at the CDC to boost vaccinations and get the pandemic under control. Tons of work ahead – so glad we'll have your help!

I promise to work with my colleagues at the C.D.C. to harness the power of American science to confront the enormous challenges we face.
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Studies have demonstrated the COVID-19 vaccine is safe. The vaccine gives us hope. And I urge everyone to take it once it is available. Until then and after you are vaccinated, please continue to stay safe and vigilant.

Today, I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at MassGeneral News. I've never had more faith in the promise of science and the power of hope to get us through this. I urge all Americans to get vaccinated as soon as you're able, wear a mask, and stop the spread.

New Year's Resolutions from the Boston ID Chiefs. Please ring in the New Year at home and let us all look to a vaccine-full, bright 2021 ahead! MGH Division of Infectious Diseases MassGeneral News CDC Helen Boucher

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The road ahead will be challenging and together we can get through it.

The CDC will be committed to the science, promoting public trust, transparency, and communicating to the American people the good and the bad news when we know it.

Help is here; vaccine rollout is underway. But vaccines will not get us out of our current surge.

Please wear a mask, social distance, and make smart decisions—especially for the holidays—to keep your loved ones and neighbors safe.

In thinking about silver linings from a harrowing 2020, at the top of my list is this beautiful baby girl born to one of my very first pediatric cancer patients - a miracle survivor of multiple relapses and now a beaming Dad. Picture posted below with parental permission 🥰

Opioid use disorder does not discriminate—It crosses geographic, demographic, and socio-economic lines.

Vivek Murthy, Xavier Becerra, and I will work together in the name of every person and family who has suffered to combat this epidemic and prevent further addiction and loss.

I’m proud that my husband Dr. Loren Walensky got the COVID-19 vaccine today. He’s on the front lines caring for children with cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Please stay safe…more vaccines are coming!

Not seeing our loved ones, not being able to be together or embrace each other, is incredibly hard. I know people are frustrated. But we need your patience just a little while longer. Your 9-1-1 call is being answered.

Today is a momentous day. At the CDC, we will lead with science to distribute the vaccine quickly, equitably, conveniently and safely.

To speed our path to recovery, we must give the vaccine less work to do. Please do your part by wearing a mask. buzzfeednews.com/article/amberj…

.Vivek Murthy Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH is great to see leadership even before they get to The White House if we let Health leaders speak, we can get COVID under control quicker! We are here to support your efforts of bringing USA together to beat this virus! #WearAMaskSaveALife

Government service was never part of my plans. But every doctor knows that when a patient is coding, your plans don’t matter. You run to the code.

And when a nation is coding—if you are called to serve, you serve.

Stellar job by my colleague @ADPaltiel in conveying our work with Jason L. Schwartz and Amy Zheng in Health Affairs. Major investments in vaccine distribution and trust are an essential next step to implementation. Vaccines don’t save people. Vaccinations do...