that's the cdc -- michelle wilenski. she said he could stop wearing masks indoor and oh except in very specific situations. in health care facilities, and care facilities like nursing homes, homeless shelters, and congregant living facilities like jails or prisons. or, interestingly, on transportation. buses, planes, airports, bus depots. those are the exceptions. other than those things, if you are vaccinated, it's okay to take off your mask now. indoors and out. really? are you sure? how sure are you? this is a big change. the previous cdc guidance on where and whether american safely take off their masks, was honestly really confusing and hard to explain. the chart they put out initially wasn't any help to me at all. the new guidance makes sense, if you are vaccinated, that's you on the right side there. you are good to go. happy greenland and all those circumstances. if you are not vaccinated, that's you on the. left lots of danger, lots of complexity and reason to worry. a lot to pay attention to. that's the bottom

wilensky.t we can all look forward to. we are talking about the future and where we want to go. back on that first slide. this is something that has been discussed now for some time. these two articles are in the late press, asking about the possibility of the universal coronavirus and the other in "science" magazine by john cullen. what does that mean by universal coronavirus? this is the phylogenetic tree of the coronavirus is. the ones in red font are human coronavirus' and the four that have yellow highlighting, those are the four viruses that account for anywhere from 5-15% of the common cold that we all get each year. in 2002, you had at sars kobe and in 2012 you had the mers coronavirus. the first indication that coronavirus was capable of pandemic potential. now on the next slide as you see we are dealing with a very difficult situation of the historic pandemic. so what people are asking is can we actually coming conceptually and in reality get a coronavirus vaccine? there have been a n

science, the cdc overstating the risks of outdoor transmission by, you get it, 100 fold which led wilensky to make this embarrassing admission. >> made a analysis from the journal of infectious diseases published in november was a top line result of all studies that were included in systematic review the less than 10% of cases were transmitted outdoors. top line results was less than 10%, that is where that came from. laura: she should have tuned into the ingraham angle over a year ago. >> a new study looking at 318 different covid outbreaks in china found only one of them occurred outdoors. viral transmission rarely occurs outdoors. why are those shots open but outdoor exercise classes not allowed? joining me doctor peter mccullough, internist and cardiologist, i am a cable news host, i didn't even make it through premed, had really smart people advising me and you are one of the greats too. why do we trust the cdc on almost anything now after this? >> ready for your epidemiology degree from my graduate school, you're doing a great job but the important points i that americans can be reas

wilensky. >> good afternoon. let's begin with an overview of the data. [inaudible] seven day average is 22,877 cases a day, which represents another decrease of about 25% from the prior average, and reflects seven consecutive [inaudible] the seven day average of hospital admissions with 3080, a decrease of almost 17% from the prior seven day period. the seven-day day average has also declined to 501 per day. we are continuing [inaudible] remain cautious but hopeful we will continue to trend downward. this coming weekend is memorial day. i know many of you are looking forward to spending time with family and friends. [inaudible] americans are able to get back to something closer to normal. visiting friends and family. [inaudible] [inaudible] is he so many smiles. all of this is possible because vaccinations are going up and cases across the country are going down. [inaudible] if you are vaccinated, you are protected. if you are not vaccinated, our guidance is not change for you. you remain a risk of infection. wear a mask and take other precautions. if yo

i suspect a year from now or shout wilensky will be in her job and more important, to the kids of theted states randi weingarten will be in her job to an head of the aft. and sadly based on the e-mails i saw in the near post trying to get pre-guidance on directives and the like. i was deeply saddened and disturbed. kennedy: i hope the whole thing implodes pretty really do i will not shed a tear of these teachers unions completely fall apart because there has to be a message sent to someone. joe biden was to just throw money at a bunch of problems. he is creating more problems and the cdc and the aft right now know the kids are resilient. government is not completely inflexible. that inflexibility is so cruel that's were going to see that repercussions. party petals going to return a little later in the show. coming before that while new have cyborg super soldiers to win the wars of the future. so how soon until we see humans combined with machines on the battlefield? is this the best idea ever? join with us to discuss. there he is. walter, did you know geico could save you hundreds on

honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now wilensky made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and had this to say this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere this was really ringback science driven individual assessment of your risk. whoa problem with that statement is for too many americans never saw it as a threat to begin with and the c.d.c. updated guidance could bring unintended consequences and to make matters more prickly the largest nurses union condemned the new c.d.c. mass guidance saying it's not based on science so who should we believe and may is mental health awareness month and all indicators point to disaster for americans particularly children the stressors of covert 19 job loss housing insecurity and school closures shot the rates of anxiety and depression through the roof with masking mental illness and a partisan divide it's time we start watching the hawks. if you want to go on a cd the streets. are so you could see the brass is the only state police traced graves

honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now wilensky made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and had this to say this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere they.

wilensky -- walensky, what does it say about the response to the cdc's communications over the last week? mr. slavitt: dr. fauci, do you want to begin? dr. fauci: i would say fears like that are not irrational. it is understandable when you are used to a certain type of behavior, then when the science says you can actually turn around that, as we have said with the recent cdc guidelines that say we can feel comfortable, that if you are fully vaccinated that you are safe from being infected, the outdoors or indoors. you can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time it may take time for them to adjust. i would not say that is irrational. i would say that is understandable. mr. slavitt: dr. walensky? dr. walensky: thank you. i would echo much of what dr. fauci said. when we released our guidelines and the sign said it was safe to do so we also acknowledged that not everybody is going to feel like it is time to rip off their masks. 416 -- for 16 months we have been saying it is important, and now what we are saying is it is going to be

director rochelle wilensky credited the decision to quote newly evolved science and why it spread access to vaccines the c.d.c. announced thursday it was changing almost all masking and distancing recommendations for fully vaccinated americans. and it was a violent weekend here in the u.s. in chicago at least 48 people were shot 5 killed in shootings across the city this while police are reporting an uptick in violent crimes in america's biggest city trinity chavez has more on these developments in new york. today the u.s. reeling from another violent weekend of shootings in chicago at least 48 people are recovering after being shot over the weekend 5 people were sadly killed police say at least 6 children under the age of 17 were among the victims wounded 2 chicago police officers also shot after responding to reports of gunfire as the approached this person. they turned the offender charged. legally began firing a gun going off. dragging one of our feet in the hand. and a 2nd officer in the leg and in the shoulder of his vest according to a department report released may 2nd there were

director rochelle wilensky is on the defense after the agency told people who are fully vaccinated against kobe 19 if they can go without a mexican the c.d.c. recommendation comes at an odd time considering america is nowhere near herd immunity to mask or not to mask that is the question.

shout out to my future misses wilensky, but can you explain the express powers and supplied powers? guest: this is related to article one, and given the -- the big power is clause three. those commonly leak to the implied powers of congress with the elastic clause, which gives the ability to congress to regulate interstate commerce. it can be creating a national bank, even though creating a national bank is not one of the powers. i think when it comes to the president, we use the terms formal and informal powers. a formal power are those specifically listed in article two, the power to be commander-in-chief, to execute laws, to give the state of the union's. the informal powers are those that are implied and part of the energetic executive as hamilton wrote about in federalist 70. one of the big implied powers is the bully pulpit, to speak directly to the american people to try to shake public opinion to advance the president's vignette -- agenda. host: let's go to kyle from virginia. would you like to take a question or ask a question? caller: i would like to take a question. -- it

wilensky and dr. fauci. i want to start with the president's speech yesterday. after we exceeded the goals the president set in his first 100 days, yesterday the president announced the goal of the next leg of the vaccination effort. to get 70% of adults vaccinated with at least one shot and 160 million americans fully vaccinated by july 4. that amounts to approximately 100 million shot over the next two months. the infrastructure we built over the first 100 days with millions of vaccines, tens of thousands of vaccination locations, and a comprehensive network of community relationships will be critical in helping us meet the new goal. so, how are we going to get 70% of adults to have their first shot by july 4? well, we, the government, are not. but we the people have a very good chance. if you look at the slide you will see a visual representation of our approach. that's right. we are going to make it as easy as possible for every american to get a vaccine. want to know where to get vaccinated? take out your phone, text your zip code to "get vaxed." text your

director rochelle wilensky is on the defense after.

. >> doctor anthony fauci cdc director doctor rochelle wilensky testified tuesday morning on effortscombat covid-19. watch live coverage of that senate health committee hearing beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. white house press secretary jen psaki was joined by two white house national security advisers to talk about the recent ransom or attack on the colonial pipeline. other topics that covered include the reason violence in israel, coronavirus vaccinations and calls for police reform. [background noises] 's mikhail

michelle wilensky on sirius xm's radio. >> the ability to shut the mask is so liberating for people,vation to get vaccinated as well. >> despite this liberation and despite dr. belinsky's acknowledgment that lex and the rules could be incentive for people getting vaccinated at the same time there is still confusion about the new guidelines. how to tell someone without the mask is vaccinated? why can't a vaccinated person do without a mask altogether when there is such a low chance of getting sick or spreading the virus? then the president added to the confusion when he spoke to congress this week because though he said we should come together and replace fear with hope, he continued to sound divisive by not acknowledging the successful work of the prior administration in bringing these vaccines so quickly and effectively to market. or the positive example it states like florida and texas have now shown by fully reopening with the continued decline in case rates and deaths since january. president biden continued to spread confusion by not leading by example, by wearing a mask outside

. >> doctor anthony fauci cdc director doctor rochelle wilensky testified tuesday morning on efforts to combat covid-19. watch live coverage of that senate health committee hearing beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. white house press secretary jen psaki was joined by two white house national security advisers to talk about the recent ransom or attack on the colonial pipeline. other topics that covered include the reason violence in israel, coronavirus vaccinations and calls for police reform. [background noises] 's mikhail everyone. happy monday. today we are joined by homeland security advisor deputy national security advisor doctor liss sherbet randall deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies. i know you all know who they are more to skip the introduction so we have more time for questions. we have very limited time will take as many as possible. with that alternative to liz. >> it is great to be with you today. thank you jen. i have an update from the colonial pipeline on what the ayde

. >>> coming up, cdc director michelle wilensky will talk how state should implement the guidance andontinue to be worn. you can what's interfere one on >>>tax day that was pushed back is now tomorrow. it's usually april 15, but because of the pandemic, the irs pushed tax date to may 17. if you are expecting a refund, you may have to wait longer because there is a massive backlog of unprocessed returns because of irs staffing shortages. >>> the long-lost tiger seen roaming around houston neighborhood. police say the search is over. they have found the big cat named india unharmed. investigators say a tip led them to the tiger and was likely being passed around to various locations in an effort to hide it. india will be transported to a tiger sanctuary to live out the rest of its life. >> that animal is only nine months old and weighs 175 pounds. fully grown he can get to 600 pounds. it still had its claws and it could do a lot of damage if he decided to. >> police arrested the alleged owner the tiger. it is illegal to keep a tiger in a house in houston. >>> still ahead. a roller coast

people were getting the vaccine because they were being told repeatedly by the cdc, beit rochelle wilenskynding doom. and by dr. anthony fauci, even if i were a masked go through all stressing in the hills are live i was still very much be triple mask. so what are your thoughts, matt? >> i think that actually you do the better when and should go on saturday night life of the cold open from now on. i see the same thing inez and you saw in york this weekend my went from 60% up to 40% not that i'm counting up to 100 outside and stirring every spaces i'm not doing that at all every day. on the side of the cdc at this point we have to understand for 15 months of the stuff we should learn one thing, their job as they see it is not to tells the truth. it is to model our behavior they're shaping us or attempting to shape us like clay. and like all paternalistic such efforts that is a disaster. snow that should have been doing this pandemic. they should've been saying here's what we know, here is what we don't overhear some things we recommend we are not sure about or do you know what, q3 is in the

michelle wilensky said the new guidance is based on science that shows the vaccines are working, this is just the first step. >> this country is not homogeneous. it's not uniform. there are some areas in this country that still have more disease than others. there is areas that might have close quite low vaccination rates. we can treated necessarily as uniform and a lot of those decisions are going to have to happen at the jurisdictional level. >> you can watch george stephanopoulos's full interview coming up at 7:00 on gma. this comes as the number of covid patients in hospitals nationwide dropped to the lowest level since october, and the daily average death count is below 600, the lowest since april 2020, kumasi? >>> thank you, jobina. while the cdc its math gof lifornia hasn't. here in the bay area, not everybody is ready to ditch their masks. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is johow people are feeling about these new guidelines. amy? >> reporter: hi, good morning. we are out here to check out what this first morning looks like. it looks the same. it looks very similar to all th

wilensky last night about this and she is like, well, we have to make sure, we have to make sure. then it comes out this morning. that's just politics, isn't it? >> i don't think it is politics. i think it is, you know, when -- when was she allowed to release the information that she had. >> by who? >> i think you -- you have framed this in the right way. >> wait. hold on a second. >> this is huge. >> hold on, because i'm going to get you on this one and then we'll get into what really matters. >> okay. >> she wasn't allowed to release it by who? by politicians. they were just making a play on this. i don't care she said it or not on the show, that's not the point. point is there's a legitimate criticism they've known things and not told people when they knew, almost like an over parenting of the american people. you knew about surfaces being as big a deal, you didn't tell us. you knew about aero sol being the way and you didn't communicate it. you knew outdoor was 10%, you didn't say it right away. can you justify the delays? >> here, chris, when you are releasing something like

wilensky laid out a caveat, even if you are fully vaccinated you should wear a mask when traveling. and it said the biden transportation wide mask mandate will stay in place meaning on trains, planes, buses and boats and here in terminals like the international airport. >> do we know how long the mask mandate will stay in place? >> september 13th was the latest date. it was supposed to expire this week and it was extended after a little bit of lobbying from flight attendants. they are the ones who say they're on the front lines of enforcing all of this. >> certainly the faa reported a large increase in unruly passengers on commercial flights over mask rules. i imagine there must be concern this is only going to increase now that people don't have to wear masks in most places if fully vaccinated, even though the rule says they have to wear them on the plane. >> reporter: well, anderson, the head of the largest union of flight attendants says there should be no confusion about this. the faa actually is already messaging on this on social media, saying you still have to wear a mask on

wilensky was joined by cdc's principal at beatty director dr. and shook it for this hearing. >> senator blunt and i look forward to working with you and our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to build on the progress we have made previously and help families in washington state, missouri, and across the country and i plan to follow the example set when it came to chairing hearings making sure that every member has an opportunity to ask a question. senator blunt and i will each have an opening statement and i will introduce our witnesses. after the witnesses testimony senators will each have five minutes for around of questions. before we begin i want to walk through the covid-19 safety protocols in place. we are grateful to our clerks and everyone that has worked to get this set up and help everyone stay safe and healthy. given new guidance from the cdc i will be working with senator blunt, committee members, and staff going forward to follow new guidance. for today we will be conducting the hearing following similar covid protocols as in the

wilensky, i led the effort to ensure that the american rescue plan included funding for cdc's work to address variance of the coronavirus. specifically through genomic sequencing. i am really encouraged to hear from your testimony that we are now sequencing 10% of our nation weekly cases. this is up from less than half of 1% in february, when i introduced my tracking covid-19 variance app. a couple of questions about what we are finding. last month, the white house announced it would provide initial funding to jurisdictions so that health departments could conduct, expand, and improve activities to sequenced genomes and identify mutations of the coronavirus. i would like to have you describe how health departments are making use of this funding but -- and how investment will improve our respondent to future public health threats, but also any new variance that we should know about, particularly anything troubling from the perspective of diluting the therapeutic sent vaccinations that we have produced? >> thank you so much, senator. we are grateful for those resources and ability to sc

wilensky and one for dr. marks. i want to say thank you for your leadership and the leadership of the cdc and your efforts to make sure that children and adolescents are up-to-date on vaccinations. particularly as students return to and person learning. -- in-person learning. you and others have noted there are over 11 million doses for the vaccines for children program that had been missed. these missed doses could seriously and negatively impact efforts to protect children and their families and communities from vaccine preventable diseases and conditions. of course, we are talking here about diseases other than covid-19. at the same time, with 12-15-year-olds now able to get vaccinated against covid-19, there is an even greater need to ensure parents are aware of all of the vaccines that children should receive to remain healthy. the rescue plan contains funding to build vaccine confidence and specifically includes provisions to ensure funding is allocated towards increasing vaccination rates throughout the u.s.

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