Modified selfquarantine for two weeks. That means hell mostly stay at his home. Hell continually, he says, wear a mask. Also putting himself into quarantine this weekend for 14 days, the head of the cdc, dr. Robert redfield. He, dr. Fauchi and the head of the food and drug administration, dr. Steven hahn, all after coming into contact with people at the white house who learned this week they have tested positive for the coronavirus. Despite this urgent new development that the potentially deadly virus is now detected inside the white house, take a look at this. The president gathered with his top military officials today for a meeting inside the white house cabinet room. A bit more than normal distancing around the table, but no mask worn by any of them, not on the president or any of the generals or admirals. Lets go straight to the white house where Jeremy Diamond is with us three very Important Health officials, their organizations, the top officials in some form quarantining now for 14 days starting immediately. Theres a sense of urgency i assume inside the white house tonight, or is it simply being done out of an abundance of caution in. Reporter well, wolf, that remains to be determined. So far we know these are three top doctors on the Coronavirus Task for who for the next two weeks will be working from home practicing some form of quaranti quarantine. The latest of the three is dr. Anthony fauci. He telling our cnn colleague, jake tapper this evening that he was at low risk regarding contact with a white house staffer who tested positive for coronavirus but will, nonetheless, out of an abundance of caution be undergoing a modified quarantine, meaning that he will be wearing a mask at all times for the next two weeks, largely working from home, perhaps going into his offices at the National Institutes of health wb here he will largely be alone. He did say if called to the white house or capitol hill, he will go but hell take every precaution necessary. Dr. Redfield giving a similar plan, saying he would wear a mass forecast he had to go to the white house are folks. All after katie miller, Vice President mike pences spokeswoman tested positive for the coronavirus. The white house hasnt confirmed she was the one in coon tact wi contact with these three doctors, though we know shes often in contact with the task force as the leading spokesperson for that task force. None of them are experiencing symptoms. Theyve all tested negative for the virus. Steven miller, one of the president s to be aides, who is married to miller, he has tested negative so far. What were seeing is a piecemeal approach. The white house hasnt said whether there was a uniform policy for anyone in contact with katie miller or to the military valet who tested positive a few days ago. The white house began daily coronavirus tests for any officials coming into contact with the president. Its likely because of that policy that they were able to learn yesterday that katie miller tested positive for the virus. The day before she also had a test and she had tested negative. Jeremy, thanks very much. Jeremy diamond is going to be at the white house if more members of the Coronavirus Task force decide they, too, are going to selfquarantine, well report that as well. Were following all these developments very, very closely, Significant Developments indeed. Joining us on the phone dr. Sanjay gupta. First of all, give us your reaction to the news that dr. Fauci is now entering for 14 days what he calls modified isolation. Yeah, modified quarantine. This is in being consistent with the cdc guidelines, which is if youve had this exposure to someone with known covid, with the known infection, that you then based on the level of your contact, and i think theyre calling these low risk but enough of an interaction for these three doctors that they should go into quarantine. I know dr. Fauci is talking about the fact that he may go into his office if no one else is there, wear a mask all the time. The reality is if you look at the guidelines and you understand the thinking behind it, its at this point for the next 14 days, thats sort of the incubation period, the time between someone might be exposed and the time when theyre going to develop symptoms. If they do develop symptoms, its and that time and we know it can happen in a shorter number of days than that as well. But that sort of fits. Im glad they are sort of abiding by the guidelines that these organizations themselves have sat out. This is part of the Contact Tracing quarantining and, as you heard, theyre going to get testing periodically as well. And thursday we heard a navy valet tested positive for the coronavirus and on friday we heard katie miller, the secretary to the Vice President me mike pence, she tested positive as well. Sanjay, youve been doing a lot of reporting on these 15minute quick tests and youve neatoted there are false negatives all the time, right . Yeah. Thats one of the concerns. People ask if youre getting tested all the time, what is the necessity for quarantine . Theres two issues here. One is that youre right, one of these tests, the rapid diagnostic test sometimes studies have shown it can have a false negative rate 15 of the time, which means out of 100 people who are carrying the infection, 15 of them will be told they dont have it when in fact they do. Theyre good tests but theyre into the perfect tests. Thats why the quarantine is still important. As you know, when you get tested for the virus and you get a negative result, that means at that snapshot in time, you are negative. It is possible that you get tested the next day and you are positive. That doesnt necessarily mean in between the two tests you became exposed and tested positive. You still could have been exposed many days earlier and just now the test is turning positive. When you get exexposed, the vir building up to your body, its replicating and when it gets too to a detectable level, thats when the test picks it up. That explains why people could be getting tested and still be in quarantine. Theyve had a known exposure with somebody with the coronavirus. The 14day period is arbitrary. Thats really an important point, sanjay, because katie miller on thursday tested negative. On friday she tested positive, but she could have been contagious, could have potentially passed on the virus even before thursday. Is that right . Thats right. That is absolutely true. In fact, i dont think she has sim tom symptoms, i think she just got tested routinely. But we also know people can be contagious without symptoms. In fact, people tend to be the most contagious before they develop symptoms, if theyre going to develop symptoms. They call that the presymptomatic period. People have more virus in their nose and mouth even before they get sick and they could be shedding that virus into the environment. So for 14 days they may have had contact with whoever the person is. Its probably katie miller because shes with the Coronavirus Task force and all these people are with that same task force. Thats probably what theyre talking about. They would go back and Contact Trace and say when was the last time you had contact . How long was the contact . What was your distance from the person . Sometimes its hard to remember that. With dr. Fauci they deemed it a lowrisk contact. But based on this for 14 days, quarantine is the recommendation so you dont inadvertently spread it to someone else at this point. Thats obviously what theyre trying to avoid. The first an hour or so ago met with the joint chiefs of staff in the cabinet room. Nobody was Wearing Masks as they were sitting around that table. What was also disturbing is he went over to the world war ii memorial to honor the veterans and he walked around with these very distinguished veterans, heros in fighting during world war ii, the president is there with the first lady. Nobody was wearing a mask there either. That was disturbing. And then later the president was asked why he wasnt wearing a mask. These gentlemen were 95 years old, some were 100 years old, potentially significant. Listen to what the president said in explaining why he decided not to wear a mask. I wind was blowing so hard in such a direction that if the plague ever reached them, id be very surprised. It could have reached me, too. You didnt worry about me, you only worried about them and thats okay. We were worried about everybody. What do you think about that explanation . Should others attending that ceremony marking the end of world war ii, should all of them have been wearing a mask . Yeah, i think that if you look at the specific guidance and admittedly, wolf, we are learning all along a bit here. This is clearly a coon tntagiou virus, it is primarily spread through the respiratory droplets which is where the six feet coombs into play here. That is typically how far respiratory droplets will spread. They can spread further if people are coughing or nesneezi. If they are coughing and sneezing they absolutely shouldnt be out in public. I couldnt tell how far he was from the people. If he was far enough away, it would probably be less problematic. Being outside is helpful because its a larger space for the virus to potentially diffuse. Inside is going to be more of a concern. So when you talk about the meetings with the generals in the cabinet room no one wearing a mask, thats concerning. Its concerning we know at this point the virus is in the wuhit house. Its a contagious virus. People are in vulnerable age groups. They should be wearing a mask. I think its a good thing these three doctors are quarantining themselves. Its an example. I think that these conversations about mask, no mask and the testing, i think some of this is going to seem in a few weeks, wolf, trivial. Kind of like when we first started talking about people should be physically distancing j outside, people were reluctant and then a few weeks later it became the norm. You wear a mask so as to not spread the virus, to decrease the likelihood you would spread the virus. The virus is in the white house now. People need to wear mask. We dont have a vaccine. Weve got to do what we know how to do as best as we can do it and wears a mask is part of that. Well look back on this conversation in a few weeks and say i cant even believe we had to have that conversation. Its obvious now. It should be obvious certainly at the white house and everywhere elsewhere the virus could be spreading. Its not just katie miller, the press secretary to the Vice President who now has cornhus r coronavirus. And a valet who served the president also has the coronavirus. One more thing, sanjay. The president earlier tonight met with members of the joint chiefs in the cabinet room over at the white house. There you can see all of them sitting around a table. The secretary was there, steven mnuchin, sitting across from the president. Out of an abundance of caution, should they have been Wearing Masks in the west wing of the white house as well . Yeah, i think so, wolf. I appreciate the fact that theyre trying to keep physical distance, you know, and you remember, wolf, at the beginning when the white house Coronavirus Tasks force briefing began, no one even kept physical distance at that time. And over time you saw this gradual sort of abiding by the recommendatio recommendations. I think were seeing the same thing here. Right now there is a reluctance to wear masks and theyre necessary. It should happen now. This should not be a gradual thing to be clear. I think gradually were going to see that. People who are around the president , the Vice President , everyone in the white house should be Wearing Masks so as to decrease the president. I asked dr. Birx about this, isnt this kind of like you think about the secret service protecting the principals in e white house . The secret service, its obvious what they have to do to protect people. This is something people need to be protected from as well, as best we can. 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You know the white house well. What do you think the president was meeting with the top military brass in the cabinet room, no one, for example, was wearing a mask . Well, wolf, put quite simply, think its gross negligence. The stakes here are just so high, wolf. As you know, white house personnel are deemed essential personnel. That applies as well to members of the joint staff and other cabinet officials. That means their ability to do their jobs, which rests on them staying healthy, is paramount. You really have to ask yourself why the president and his team woo wouldnt take any precaution possible to prioritize the heal of themselves as well as the people around them. Having worked in the white house, i feel this is the tip of the spear in terms of learning about more official who is have to engage in some kind of quarantine. If the president and Vice President themselves were exposed to the virus i worked in a converted closet for years. It likely other officials will have too engage in some form of quarantine. All right, stand by. David axelrod is with us, Gloria Borger is with us, the Public Health ep deem yol skridemiolog us we have dr. Redfield, dr dr. Hahn and now dr. Fauci in some form of selfquarantine because they may have been in contact with two white house officials, who have now been confirmed they have coronavirus. This illustrates how common this virus is becoming and how everyone is at risk of being exposed to this virus. I want to know what the exposure was of these individuals. How much did contact did they have with this person . It sounds like dr. Fauci has a modified quarantine. Id like to know what the coon tact was because there may have been other individuals who had that coon tact as well and there may be more people who have to go through this quarantine. I suspect deborah birx and addiction azhar might have too do the same. What do you say, doctor, should more members go into some form of selfquarantine from a medical perspective . Its unclear how many and what kind of task foorce. We hope that the task foorz wou force would be making the ryeig decisions. The big picture question is presumably the person who exposed all of them is the Vice President s press secretary. And you have to ask, well, if thats the case, then why arent we hearing about what kind of quarantine the Vice President and poe ttentiall