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to continue protecting the president, that s what the protocols around him are designed to do. here with me cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. the vice president is on paxlovid, she s isolating but what s going on inside the white house right now? what should be the concern? as dr. jha was saying protecting the president, making sure people around the president are wearing masks, high filtration masks, that they re being tested, all the things we ve been talking about for a couple of years. some of those things have becomes lacks at certain times and because the president is vaccinated and boosted it does offer protection against severe illness but we still know people who is getting severely ill. the vice president is taking paxlovid. i think there s a level of concern about this although they ve said they are not going to change any of the protocols at this point. i do think it s interesting, you know, being very stringent about the testing protocols and masking pr
i ll do it because the science may show that. if i do it and other people aren t, how much protection? it does depend to some extend on what kind of mask you re wearing. in the beginning when we had this discussion, don, the cloth masks and things like that were probably more benefitting the people around the mask user whereas if you look at high filtration masks and kn 95 masks, they are good. they have significant filtration and electro static fibers that help screen out the virus. but they re not perfect and to your question, the more people that are wearing, thel lle l les in the air. the way to think about this is well, keep in mind that there is a significant percentage of spread that comes from people who are totally asymptomatic. so now the situation is the following. there is no testing. you feel fine. you re not getting tested. you have no idea if you have it.
know their vaccination status especially, masks can be really effective. i will say that, you know, there was not a lot of discussion as much about the types of masks early on. these types of high filtration, n95, kn95 masks, you can find them now. they re actually not that uncomfortable to wear. look if you re going to wear a mask, wear a good mask. these are the highest filtration masks. here s something else we do. this is a co2 monitor, carbon monoxide monitor. the more people in a room breathing our carbon dioxide, you ll quickly get an assessment of how good the ventilation is. if it s not good, you may open doors, order people out of a certain space to try and decrease the carbon dioxide, decrease the likelihood you re breathing in someone s air. these are the basic things. we ve been talking about them for some time. the thing that we didn t have a year ago was the vaccines. so hopefully people take advantage of it. also, don, if i k i just wanted to spend a minute telling abou