The president says he called Redfield to ask about two things Redfield says that the president didn’t like. The president says, since that phone call, that if Redfield is asked now he’d probably say he didn’t understand the question on masks.
Redfield said: "I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine...”
“... because the immunogenicity may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me. This face mask will.”
Atlas stands up after briefing where Trump undercut his CDC director and accuses the press of fear-mongering around safety questions on the speed of the vaccine.
.@Noahbierman tries pointing out to Trump that he just undercut his own CDC director when he excoriates people for questioning whether science is guiding his decisions. Trump again says Redfield must not have understood the question.
"The mask is a mixed bag," Trump says, referring back to things that were said by health experts six months ago about transmission from touching the masks.
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