CDC Director Avoids Criticizing Justice Sotomayor For Inaccurate COVID Numbers, Doubles Down On Vaccine Push

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky corrected, but refrained from criticizing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she misrepresented COVID-19 pediatric hospitalization data. Walensky focused her attention on pushing Americans to vaccinate themselves and their children.

Baier began by noting that Sotomayor falsely claimed  Friday that 100,000 children were not only hospitalized but in serious condition from COVID-19 complications.

“We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor said.

“Here’s what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now,” Walensky responded. “First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated. And for those children who are not eligible for vaccination, we do know that they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren’t vaccinated. So the most important thing we can do for those children to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and their family members around them,” she told Bret Baier on “Fox News Sunday.”