American surgeon Jerome Adams says administration should take mask seriously
The Trump administration’s coronavirus task force has stepped up calls for Americans to wear masks as cases escalate in some states, but Vice President Mike Pence said he There were no plans to overrule the governors who did not yet need it.
“Please, please, please, wear a face cover when you go out in public,” the surgeon general Jerome Adams, a member of the task force, said on Tuesday.
Adams made the strongest pleas to the public from an administration that has often bypassed direct recommendations to wear masks. Health and Social Services Secretary Alex Azar and Pence both urged to wear a mask during the event in Rockville, Maryland, although Pence was only told to do so if local authorities recommended it.
Pence himself wore a mask before he started speaking.
Several southern and western states are seeing an escalation in the number of new cases, prompting some to postpone plans to reopen.
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The call for masks came the same day, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci told a Senate panel that the United States “is going in the wrong direction” in its efforts to contain the new coronavirus and that the number of daily cases could more than double if behaviors don’t recur ” t change.
Identifying indoor gatherings, especially bar scenes with queues and customers standing side by side, Fauci said new cases of Covid-19 could reach 100,000 a day, up from around 40,000 currently.
Pence said to “wear a mask, wherever indicated or wherever you are unable to practice the type of social distancing that would prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”
He also clarified that there were no plans to issue national requirements on masks, allowing states to manage their “unique circumstances”.
“And we will continue to use this model, respecting the decisions that governors make,” said Pence.
But Adams called on Americans to wear masks – not just where there are warrants to do so – and said that face covers do not restrict freedoms.
“It is actually a vehicle to achieve our goals, it adds to your convenience and freedom, because it allows us to open more places and allow those places to stay open,” he said. .
President Donald Trump made fun of his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for wearing a mask and never wore one publicly, although he is faced with calls to do so.
In some parts of the country, the problem has gone from a health problem to a political problem.
Later Tuesday in Colorado, Governor Jared Polis said he thought “there has been a breakthrough because Mike Pence is wearing a mask. The governor of Texas and Arizona says everyone must to wear a mask. They are convinced conservative Republicans. It is not an ideological and partisan thing. It is a scientific thing. “
“For a time, unfortunately, like too much in society, it all seemed to become an ideological thing or even a party thing,” Polis, a Democrat, told reporters in Denver.
– With the help of Vincent Del Giudice.
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