Implement the guidelines for all phases. At home and at work and in your community. For those of the areas most affected, we just want to encourage you to listen to and respect the guidance of your state and local authorities. I recognize that this is different than two months ago both this our ability to respond and in the nature of those that are being infected and that younger americans have a particular responsibility to make sure that theyre not carrying the coronavirus into settings where they would expose the most vulnerable. And lastly as i prepare to bring dr. Birx to the podium, i would encourage every american to continue to pray. Pray for all the families that have lost loved ones. Pray for our Health Care Workers on the front lines. And just continue to pray that by gods grace every single day. We of us do our part to heal our land. With that, ill introduce the coordinator of the white house effort on the coronavirus, dr. Deborah birx. Thank you, mr. Vice president. Thank
Theyre following around 80 contacts. 80 contacts of the man who was in the hospital right here who has been diagnosed with ebola. What were told is many of the contacts are contacts of contacts, in other words the patient had contacts around him, mr. Duncan, and some of those contacts then had their contacts and theyre all being monitored, theyre taking their temperature, theyre watching for signs of ebola. Carol . Describe to us how concerned we should be that this number has ratcheted up to 80. Reporter you know, i dont find it too concerning because theyre doing it as that phrase they love to use out of an abundance of caution. The people who really need to be concerned are the ones who had close contact with mr. Duncan who were exposed to his bodily fluids. I this think they are trying to have a wide margin of error and thats why they expanded this list. Something else interesting happened the Texas Department of health told us four close family members have been ordered to stay ho
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will be forced to quarantine and therefore aren t eligible for play? reporter: i think we re going to see that, john, i think. this is a very contagious variant. to give context on this, we talked about it before. recent literature shows the viral load that you have, if you have the delta variant as an infection is about 1,000 times higher than the original strain. even in someone who may not have symptoms, the idea that they could still be contagious, they could still transmit it to others is high. younger people, these are athletes, obviously, mostly in good health. so the idea that they would develop serious illness or require hospitalization is still very low but the idea that they could test positive, they could have mild symptoms, they would need quarantine, contract trace, bring entire teams into quarantine. that s very real. that s what they re trying to deal with here. i feel like this story is