The White House declined to say that President Joe Biden’s positive coronavirus test should motivate Americans, especially at the White House, to ramp up their mask use.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, joined press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Thursday’s briefing to discuss the president’s condition and was pressed on the topic by the Grio‘s April Ryan.
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“The CDC says if you are in a high-risk area, and a large swath of the nation is in a high-risk area, they recommend wearing masks indoors,” Ryan said. “And this White House was still seeing people back and forth in D.C. as in that high category. Is there now a push to tell people to start wearing masks inside, especially as the president now you see has COVID?”
“I actually, off the top of my head, can’t remember where D.C. is on the orange, yellow, green map … but the bottom line is we follow CDC guidelines,” Jha responded. “And the policy of the White House is to follow CDC guidelines in terms of mask-wearing based on CDC COVID community levels.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently classifies D.C. as having a medium transmission rate.
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You can watch Thursday’s briefing in full below.
