CDC Director Admits Vaccinated Individuals Can Transmit COVID-19 to Others

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A top U.S. health official acknowledged on April 19 that people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine can transmit the disease to others.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), made the unsupported claim in 2021 that people who had received a COVID-19 vaccine “do not carry the virus” and “do not get sick.”