And so i m worried that there s gonna be a lot of people and some of situations that will be exposed and may expose others for myself personally i m young i m healthy i ve been triple-vaccinated. my personal risk isn t high. but the rest other a my eye might infect or to my kids maybe. and that s for the personal at the family arrests now for the more important i think legal precedent. once you not a public health decision, you had a legal decision that overrode the decisions of a public health authority in the middle of a pandemic. and i m not just worried about what that means right now today for flights in the next few days. and for the uptick in cases. i m worried about what that means for the future when we respond to pandemics. when we have further pathogens that threaten us here in the u.s.. we already had dozens of states implement measures to limit public health authority, now you have a single judge in one state who has overrode a decision by the central public health decis
Still open as long as this judges ruling goes unchallenged? and what does that mean for doctors and nurses treating patients as the number of covid cases starts to tick back up again? joining us now is doctor craig spencer. he s the director of global health and emergency medicine at columbia university irving medical center, he s also an emergency room doctor pressing new york city. he s also a doctor with personal experience with scary contagious diseases. he was the first person new york city to be diagnosed with ebola. back in 2014 after he returned from treating ebola patients in africa. with the covid pandemic new york city hit in march 2020, doctor spencer was on the frontlines fighting patients at the very worst of that time. doctor spencer it s a real pleasure to have you back on the show, thanks for making time to be here this night. thank you for having me back on, it s a pleasure. so it seems to me that there are two things to think about in terms of this judges ruling.
President and i m glad to see administration challenging that. and the administration says they will challenge it provided that the cdc assesses and scientific terms that it continued mask mandate, continued mass reform of our transit actually is in the public health interest. and so there effectively, the justice department is effectively saying that they re going to follow the science. that if the cdc still thinks this type of rule should be in effect. then they will appeal the ruling in order to try to reassert the cdc s authority to make those decisions. it still does feel a little precarious in terms of the standing of the cdc to pass these rules in the future. i mean i understand with geo jay s suffering to them but that presidential issue we re talking about israel here. absolutely and also quite frankly it s a very confusing point in the pandemic for many people. if you are young and you ve been vaccinated, you may think that your personal risk is low. and you may say, well