It pains Rochelle Walensky, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to hear people say that the agency can’t be trusted. But these days, she says, people should be cautious about the vaccination information on its website.

“What I can say is the vaccine information on the CDC is not necessarily that of the subject matter experts or the CDC, but there’s a lot of other great information on this CDC website that I don’t believe has been tainted with as of yet,” she said in response to a question at a media briefing in Boston Friday, calling her former colleagues heroes who are doing their best.

“What I will also say is that our medical societies — AAP, ACOG, the Infectious Disease Society of America, AMA — are putting out information,” she said about groups whos

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