Ainsley White House holding Ainsley White House holding first coronavirus briefing since April with the president with call to action. My administration will stop at nothing to save lives and shield the vulnerable. It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. We are asking Irving that when you are not able to socially distance wear a mask get a mask whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact here to react is Fox NEWS, medical contributor and author of Make America healthy again. Is Dr Nicole Saphier, Hey Dr Saphier Good Morning, Ainsley Ainsley good morning to you. I am sure you watched that yesterday. What did you think? I actually thought that the address by the president last night was exactly what Americans needed to hear. He gave a concise and pragmatic update without the rhetoric and without the false promises that so many people were betting on him, providing what he did was Ainsley. He told us. Yes, the cases are up and there is a spread throughout

the country and a lot of it is going unchecked right now. He gave the positive update, though saying that the hospitalization and the death rates, although they are decreased, a lot of that is largely due to the improved treatment and protecting the vulnerable, but in the same very important message. He said it is important that people are wearing masks when unable to socially distance its really important for the president to deliver this message. Ainsley, because there are a lot of people who criticize general mask wearing and rightfully so general ridessed mask wearing, is not one hundred percent full proof when we are talking about public health and really healthcare in general, its not about absolutes Ainsley, its about risk reduction. If you can reduce the risk of transmission of this virus by up to fifty percent wearing a cloth mask thats the right thing to do right now, moving forward. Yes, its very encouraging to know treatments are on the horizons, and vaccines may be on the horizons right now. We need to do what we can to lessen the amount of percent positive. We also need to call on our

industry to shorten the results time when it comes to testing right now. People are being quoted five to ten days, waiting for their test results, Ainsley thats, unacceptable moving forward. It has to be shorter than that and the president touched on that point of care testing Ainsley. Also, yesterday, five of the drug companies trying to develop the vaccines they were testifying in front of a house committee, and I was watching that and listening to them and not one of these companies has promised a vaccine by the end of the year. They were being really pressed on making sure they arent going to overcharge and wont make big profits on this whats. Your take away from watching that yesterday, well Ainsley. I think I have said no fewer times than about ten times that the vaccine is not going to be the end all be all when it comes to Covid 19. We have to move forward as a nation without the expectation that we will be having a vaccine in twenty twenty. Yes, im extremely impressed to know that at least three trials, the NIH, the Oxford and one out

of China are entering phase three, which means that theyre proving that their vaccine is safe and it actually does induce some sort of immune reaction, whether its antibodies and slash or t cells. The truth is they go into phase three. Now we are going to see. Yes, they are immunogenic, but will they actually prevent infection that takes some time Ainsley? They also need to diversify the demographic they are going to give it to im extremely optimistic in twenty twenty one. There will be at least one, maybe many successful vaccine candidates and they will be available. However, there is yet to be a successful coronavirus vaccine, so we as american people, need to be prudent to do what we can to lessen the spread and that will constitute wearing masks when necessary and continued social distancing. So we can keep our businesses open and we can get our children back to school, Ainsley. Okay, Dr Saphier, thank you so much for joining us.