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Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky on Monday said Michigan should
'shut things down' with COVID-19 cases spiking, noting that a surge in
additional COVID-19 vaccines to the state would not have an immediate
effect.
"The answer
is not necessarily to give vaccine, in fact, we know that the vaccine
will have a delayed response," Walensky said Monday during a briefing in
which she was asked about whether the U.S. would surge additional
vaccine doses to states with surging COVID-19 numbers, such as Michigan.
"The answer to that is to really close things down, to go back
to our basics, to go back to where we were last spring, last summer and
to shut things down," Walensky continued. "I think if we tried to
vaccinate our way out of what is happening in Michigan we would be
disappointed that it took so long for the vaccine to work."
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
has opposed returning to tighter restrictions amid the pandemic. She
has recently called on the administration of President Joe Biden to
provide the state with additional vaccines due to a recent spike in new
cases.
The
governor said recently as a news conference that believes vaccination
efforts in Michigan — a state where more than 5.1 million doses of the
vaccine have been administered to over 3.1 million residents — is the
key to reopening the state and ending the pandemic.
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