Birx: ‘Everyone Needs to’ Wear a Mask at Social Gatherings in Areas That Still Have Virus

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx stated everyone should wear a mask in social gathering situations that take place in areas where there is still coronavirus.

Birx said, “We know that talking, singing, certainly sneezing and coughing can pass the virus on to others. And because you can pass it when you’re asymptomatic, people don’t know that they’re infected. And so, if there’s virus in the community, or you’re gathering people from different areas of a state where there may be still residual virus…if everybody wears a face mask, then you’re protecting the other person. Because it’s really having the asymptomatic individuals wearing masks. But since you don’t know if you’re one of those, really everyone needs to, in those kind of social gathering situations, as long as there’s virus still in the community.”

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