Outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who made my list of the worst COVID-19 offenders despite being a transparently ditzy puppet rather than an evil mastermind, made one last appearance on Capitol Hill earlier this week before departing the revolving door to join the board of some multinational pharmaceutical corporation.

Via Stat News:

One of the very last duties of one of President Biden's very first pandemic response officials was to spend two hours deflecting Republican criticisms of how she did her job.

GOP lawmakers took predictable shots at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky over her comments about whether Covid-19 vaccines prevent transmission of the disease, how much influence teachers' unions had over guidance for protocols in schools, and the agency's data collection practices. House Republicans had been asking Walensky to testify for two months.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) brought up collusion between social media companies and the government — as the Twitter Files, which we would likely never have been privy to had Elon Musk not bought the company, exposed — to censor factual COVID misinformation in the interest of furthering lockdowns, masking mandates, vax mandates, etc.