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There are electro static recharged fibers in here. it's not just filtering particles but attracting them, like your blanket attracts your socks in the dryer. it works for air coming in but also air that's potentially going out. one key thing about the n 95, you have to make sure they fit well. the two bands around the back of your head. then making sure no air is escaping around your eyes or your cheeks or your chin? studies have shown that cloth masks about 75% leakage. a surgical mask, 50%. but with an n-95, it can go down to as low as 1%. so the question is why aren't the masks being recomm...

Kn-95 or n-95 masks. we talked about this on your program for a long time now, saying, why not just recommend those masks, especially given the contagiousness of this virus and the new variants. in fact, i asked dr. walensky and dr. fauci about this at a town hall, maybe close to a year ago. listen to what they said. why not recommend it, especially with these more transmissible variants? >> yeah, it is a really good question and one we get a lot. i have spent a reasonable amount of time in an n-95 mask. they're hard to tolerate all day, every day. in fact, when you really think about how well...

Did were negative, i wouldn't bother doing the tests in the first place. the numbers are extremely low. >> reporter: and the advanced testing requirement is filtering out positive cases before people fly into japan, including 17-year-old american tennis star coco gauff who tested positive in the u.s. before flying, and katie lou samuelson who tested positive despite being vaccinated. two members of the baseball team tested positive and won't travel to japan. with transmissible variants, and 11,000 athletes descending on japan from more than 200 countries, fears are growing about the risk to th...

More transmissible variants that may start to really eat into the protection the vaccines provide. delta hasn't quite done that yet. one shot, it doesn't provide great protection against but to full vaccinations, it still seems to do so. no vaccine is perfect now, in the higher transmission rates get -- the more you will get a cases and hospitalizations. >> right. >> we should be resting on morals here. we should be trying our best to drive down the spread of delta, across the country. especially in unvaccinated communities, sadly using a lot of the measures you said that we haven't done very ...