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Meeting with people? should all of us given the prevalence right now and the rising number of cases be masking more indoors in your mind? >> i think this is where i turn to the cdc and the cdc guidance which i think is quite clear. cdcs community levels lays out depending on what community, what covid level you are at you should make decisions about wearing masks indoors based on that and, you know, we follow that here at the white house. and i recommend that people follow that across the countr...

Call to rein state some of that. dc is in a moderate covid community transmission and that is an area that we would think about masking, particularly people with chronic conditions. the same thing that they should be doing is just offering, i know that in the white house, it is the press corps, there is it press core, theres rigorous testing. for staff, its not regular testing. they should implement regular surveillance testing, as a broad step. at campuses, infections can happen. ba.5 is infect...

The goal of paxlovid is to prevent serious illness, its doing a great job of that. >> as of this morning what do you know about where president biden caught this? >> we dont know much about it. obviously he could have gotten it anytime in the preceding days. theres obviously an incubation period but theres a lot of variation in all of that. so we dont know. right now what were focused on number one were focused on making sure president biden continues to do well as he was through last night, sec...

Point. different from what it was back in 2020. >> and there is that kind of evolution of thinking and how we think about covid now versus back in 2020 that i think -- that people still need to have. this gets to the new op-ed that you wrote in "the washington post" because you -- you wrote that the presidents diagnosis is actually an opportunity here. explain for folks. >> its a teachable moment first to let people know about what is the right thing to do once you get covid, that you are suppos...

Mandatory masking in public places. we see very few of our public figures coming out into public wearing a mask. and it has put in place this sort of sense of complacency that were done with this, were moving on. i hear people talking about sort of -- using the pandemic in past sense. but its still very much present. >> yeah. >> and the fact -- and the fact that the president of the united states tested positive is a stark reminder of that. >> and lets remind our viewers also for example, congre...

In recent months, Paris Regional Medical Center had moved to a mask-optional policy as Covid-19 cases began declining. With the rise of the new and highly infectious BA.5 variant, however,

This virus is killing over 400 people a day, and hundreds of thousands are getting infected. we need to have a more aggressive stance, and bring masks back to the united states. ill point out that japan has been in the news recently because of the tragic death of the former prime minister. but japan is a country of 140 million people, about 40% the size of the united states. but they have had 30,000 deaths. so its a country 40% the size of the united states, with only 3% of the mortality for cov...

Cdc guidance in that regard. shell be masking as well and so this is going to be something worth tracking going forward. yasmin, just to step back and put this obviously in the context of where this president is at this moment, obviously weve been talking so much about lately the speculation about his political future and the concerns about his age, he turns 80 this year, the white house has been saying for weeks now that this is something they acknowledge is going to be something talked about i...

Take precautions, whether its being vaccinated and twice boosted. whether its knowing if you are eligible for paxlovid, whether its masking, or, and thank god, biden is not in this category, but for folks that are immuno suppressed is critical, because the virus is still out there. >> doctor, you have within a medical advisor to the white house. what is the white house medical team doing right now? >> first of all, making sure that the president gets the standard of care. there can be a tendency...

Back to koven, a california doctor just uncovered video showing that l.a. spending moved to employ masking. its based on complete lies. vo >> the video and that doc a are here in moments. i say this because i care about potential here with very good looks. so without the science, i think you might have ever been caught up in or trust you. its just that i dont trust you find something that brings you a lot. youve got family ties and that goes on and off here. im hungry. im tired. im back here. le...