After resigning from her post not long ago, Dr. Rochelle Walensky handed the keys over to fellow cohort Dr. Mandy Cohen, selected by President Joe Biden for the job. Now that Cohen is at the helm she recently revealed that the CDC plans to release guidance later this year that will encourage Americans to receive a Covid booster shot, just like many do for the flu shot in the fall.

Dr. Cohen sat down for an interview with Spectrum News earlier last week to discuss what this new guidance will probably look like, along with trying regain trust of the public after it was vehemently criticized these past several years.

Spectrum wrote: ‘Dr. Cohen became a household name in North Carolina during the height of the pandemic, leading the Tar Heel State’s Department of Health and Human Services. She was lauded by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in North Carolina, as purple a state as it gets in this country.’

Cohen revealed that this new guidance is being framed to drop in September.

We’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that Covid will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot and you get your annual Covid shot.

We’re not quite there yet, but stay tuned. I think within the next couple of weeks, month we’re going to hear more from our experts on Covid shots.

As for rebuilding trust in the agency, Spectrum cited ‘a survey by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published in the journal Health Affairs in March found that roughly a quarter of Americans have little-to-no trust in the CDC for health information, including 10% who do not trust the agency at all.’

Cohen says she wants to apply her leadership and unity while she was at the helm in North Carolina to the rest of the CDC.

While we saw trust go down in lots of institutions, we actually saw trust increase in North Carolina. We measured trust in the Department of Health and Human Services and saw that increase.

We still had respectful disagreement, but at least we’re having a respectful conversation about how to approach hard, hard topics.

[…] Folks have been very clear that the CDC did lose trust.

There were some early places where the CDC didn’t perform and execute in the way they needed to.

Moreover, a big thing for Cohen is regaining trust in vaccination, relating it to the “tripledemic” fears that were touted in 2022 and apparently are still in circulation.

I’m very worried about parents not vaccinating kids. I got my kids vaccinated from the circulating viruses. There’s plenty of other things that are hard as parents that we can’t do. This is one we can do to protect our kids.

She added

She also noted that she has worked with individual lawmakers already to help better influence public opinion, as House Republicans are making propositions to cut the CDC’s funding.

Just like we have a military to protect us here and around the world, we need a CDC that can protect us. We can’t see those cuts and have the national security assets we need here at the CDC.

When people hear CDC, Cohen says she wants people to think that “there’s a trusted partner who’s looking out for me, who’s looking out to protecting my health … good, accurate information that helps me with common sense solutions to protect myself, my family and my community.”

One week prior Cohen sat down for another interview this time with NBC, once again discussing how she help to regain a positive public opinion.

You’re going to hear us with some key messages, making sure that folks hear them over and over.

She said

NBC wrote: ‘One lesson she learned as North Carolina’s health secretary is that she is not always the best conduit for public health guidance. Her team sometimes turned to faith leaders, NASCAR drivers, even TikTok influencers to get scientific information to the public.’

Certainly, the science and the data is going to come from the CDC. But there are many messengers who are trusted. This is a team effort.

She added

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

I will NEVER trust you and your crooked witchdoctors, so you can just go fly a kite and blow some bubbles, ’cause I ain’t hearing ya!

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Job 13:4

As she plainly laid-out, the way to regain “trust” is to just propagandize the public again through constant advertising and celebrity influencers.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).