The media have been allowed to go mask list for weeks in her presence. you say you continue to recommend people wear masks. why is it that we can sit here in the white house briefing room with no mask? well, peter, i m not a doctor. the masking guidance there is green guidance and ride. it mines me to find a woman i m not a biologist. she also was asked is the mask mandate still in the fact? she replied i don t know. okay you the press secretary and you know how government works. the answer is we respect the opinion of the federal judiciary but that s not what she says.
You may be right. there is this now. why is it that we can sit here in the white house briefing room with no masks but people can t in an airplane cabin with no masks? i m not a doctor, you re not a doctor that i m aware of. the masking guidance is green, yellow, red. this is based on health considerations and data that the cdc looks at about trance missability as we ve seen an increase in cases on airplanes. bill: jen psaki insisting the cdc is following science. two hours later thereabouts a florida judge strikes down the mandate for failing to provide sufficient justification. the white house then announcing the tsa will no longer enforce the masks on planes and so now the question, is the agency following the science or is it just playing politics? vivek ramaswamy, welcome back from columbus, ohio today. you ve seen all the videos,
750,000 daily covid cases. almost 750,000. doctor offit, we re still waiting on the cdc to update the masking guidance potentially recommending what are called n-95 or kn-95 masks for better protection. take a look at what one study found about mask leakage. take a look at this. you could see the numbers n-95 went to 10%. surgical masks 15%. cloth masks 75% mask leakage. are americans walking around with cloth masks essentially underprotected from this omicron variant which is so highly transmissible? yeah, cloth masks are better than nothing but not much better than nothing. if you could get an n-95 mask and that is certainly a value and other wise the surgical mask could offer protection. please be vaccinated and we will
The testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile. i will be anticipate to take that back and discuss that with our finance teams. yesterday lawmakers on the hill grilled members of the coronavirus response team on everything from muddled guidance on testing, isolation and quarantine rules to masking guidance and masks and test scarcity. some of the questions turned political and personal like this hot mic moment with faufrpy and senator marshall. my financial disclosure is public knowledge. where would we find it? ask for it. you are so misinformed it is extraordinary. you see things before members of congress. totally incorrect. senator marshall, dr. fauci has answered you. it is public information and he is happy to give it to you if you would ask. senator moran.