The real reason biden is always carrying an interior mask, Covid says official
Jeffrey Zients, the coordinator of the White House's response Covid-19, defended the decision of the President.
PresidentJoe Biden Received the second dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine near her in Delaware on January 11 - It is clear that the president has exceeded the waiting period of two weeks to strengthen immunity to the coronavirus novel. Despite this, Biden always wears masks inside - and some interviewed why. May 9,Jeffrey Zients, the COVID-19 intervention coordinator of the White House, addressed theReasoning of the President During the CNNState of the Union. Continue reading to find out what he had to say about the decision of Biden to continue to wear masks inside.
Zients says that Biden always wears a mask inside because it aligns with CDC tips.
State of the Union hostJake Tappershowed a recent video of the president saying, "When I'm inside, he's still a good policy to wear the mask." He then asked to ask Zients if it's "really necessary for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask to a limited interior gathering, if everyone is vaccinated."
Zients responded by telling a recent cdc guideline change, which suggests that people who are fully vaccinated can attend a small inner gathering with friends and a mask-free family. Tapper quickly followed with the question: "So why President Biden in a room filled with journalists, if you have everyone in this piece vaccinated, why should we wear a mask?"
The answer, according to the government official, is that biden "will continue to follow the CDC guidelines". He added, "It's just a matter of a few weeks when all states have made vaccines eligible for all Americans." ZIS then suggested that there are many people who still wait to get their second shot and others that have not been vaccinated at all.
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The CDC has updated its guidelines last month to say that the entirely vaccinated people can gather inside without masks.
On April 27, theCDC has updated its guidelines on masking. And although the entirely vaccinated and unvaccinated people should always wear a mask in most situations as a preventive measure, people who have received COVID Jab can spend time with other people vaccinated inside without mask or Stay away from six feet.Vaccinated people Can also gather inside with another unaccinated household "without masks or stay 6 feet away." The only exception to this is if a person in this household is at an "increased risk of crowded Covid-19".
However, the CDC notes: "In indoor public spaces, the immunization status of other people or if they are at increased risk of Grave Covid-19 is probably unknown. As a result, entirely vaccinated people should continue to wear a mask that Perfectly matches the sides of your face and do not have gaps, cover coughs and sneezing, wash your hands often and follow any applicable place of work or school orientation. "
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Biden has been criticized to "miss the greatest opportunity to reduce the hesitation of vaccines" by continuing to wear a mask inside.
Skinny, MD, Professor of Public Health at George Washington University and the former Baltimore Commissioner, reviewed the decision of Biden to wear a mask inside in aWashington Post OP-ED, published on April 29th. "Of course, you can not know that vaccines are so effective looking at theToo prudent guidelines of CDC. Already, a very harmful narrative takes hold: if vaccines are so effective, so why so much precautions for fully vaccinating? What is the point of being inoculated if not much changes? "She wrote.
Wen said by wearing a mask at his April 28 address of the Congress, Biden "missed his greatest opportunity to reduce the hesitation of the vaccine." Wen said that the major problem was the framework of the event, which had 200 participants in the room room, which may contain 1,600 people and each was vaccinated.
Currently, more than 40% of the American adult population isfully vaccinated, According to the CDC. But the experts warn that the rest of the population has not been vaccinated not because they can not get an appointment, but because they are worried or because they do not want to have shot.
Experts like a former FDA chief have recently suggested that the CDC begins to lift interior mask restrictions.
Former FDA and doctor commissionerScott Gottlieb, MD, suggested the CDCRaise the interior mask restrictions on CNBCThe news with Shepard SmithMay 6 "I think we should start lifting these restrictions as aggressively as we put them. We must preserve the credibility of public health officials perhaps reimplement of these provisions that we enter next winter, if we do not start to see epidemics again, "said Gottlieb. "Even if the vaccination rates slow down, we will continue to continue to grow more people vaccinated ... But I think these gains are locked. »
Referring to Gottlieb's recommendation, Zients says Tapper: "We will look at the CDC one day's president said we're going to rely on science and facts, and that's what we'll do. " Gottlieb, however, reiterated his suggestion on CBS NewsFace the nation Sunday morning."We are at a time whenwe can start up These [COVID-19] Orders, "He explained. "People must judge their own individual risk depending on their own situation."
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