“It is really essential to wear masks and for this to work we have to have like 90% of people who wear a mask in public in critical areas, if we don’t have that we won’t get control of the virus,” said Giroir, the deputy secretary of Health from the US Department of Health and Human Services said on ABC “This Week”.
“There is no problem in wearing a mask,” added Giroir.
“Masks are a double-edged sword,” said the president. “People touch them. And they grab them and I see it all the time. They go in, they take the mask. Now they hold it now with their fingers. And they drop it on the desk and then they touch their eyes and they touch their noses. No I think a mask is a … it’s a double-edged sword. “
In recent days, Trump has also criticized the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s coronavirus guidelines regarding the reopening of the school. He tweeted that they were “very tough” and “expensive,” while in another tweet he threatened to cut school funds if they resisted opening, although the federal government’s ability to do so is limited.
Giroir parted ways with Trump on Sunday, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the guidelines are “really on target,” adding that the task force “feels they are pretty strong.” He noted that the United States still needs to control the virus, “when we control it more, then we can really think about how to put children back in the classroom.”
“I highly respect Dr. Fauci,” Giroir said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “But Dr. Fauci is not 100% right, and not necessarily either, and admits that, given the entire national interest, he looks at it from a very limited public health point of view.”
The working group member told NBC that he believes “there is a full open and honest discussion within the working group.”
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