FOX News Rundown Extra: COVID Is Staging A Comeback. Are Mask Mandates Really The Answer?

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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COVID is trying to stage a comeback, especially in areas with low vaccination rates. As the Delta variant spreads throughout the U.S., so is talk of reimposing mask mandates. Earlier this week on the FOX News Rundown, Admiral Brett Giroir -- former Assistant Health Secretary under President Trump -- joined host Lisa Brady to discuss the recent COVID spikes and whether mask mandates are the way to curb them. While Admiral Giroir says certain Americans should continue to mask up, he insists the government should not mandate them. However, he did lay out what the Biden Administration and health officials should be doing more to address the current coronavirus wave. Our interview was too long and we could not include all of it in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire conversation with former Assistant Health Secretary Admiral Brett Giroir and hear his complete take on what government should and should not do as it deals with yet another COVID surge and millions of Americans who are still reluctant to be vaccinated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the fox news run down extra
0:20.0	I'm Lisa Brady
0:22.0	COVID is trying to stage a comeback, especially in areas with lower vaccination rates.
0:28.0	The Delta variant has quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S.
0:31.0	and the mask debate is spreading again right along with it.
0:35.0	We spoke with doctor and retired Admiral Brett Jura, an assistant health secretary under
0:39.2	President Trump, about masks, breakthrough COVID infections, and the White House cracked down on misinformation.
0:45.7	We made some edits for time and thought you might like to hear the whole thing.
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0:54.8	Now here's Admiral Brett Jura on the Fox News rundown extra. All right, so I wanted to ask you first about breakthrough cases of COVID in fully vaccinated people.
1:12.8	Are you surprised by that?
1:15.4	I am not surprised by the breakthrough cases.
1:18.4	We know that the vaccines are highly effective, well over 90%, in fact a study was just published two days ago among
1:29.6	patients in the Veterans Administration here in the United States and you know a lot of the
1:34.8	veterans tend to be in poor health but their vaccine effectiveness was 97% you know
1:40.6	seven days after the second shot so I'm not surprised by the breakthrough just because you do the percentages
1:46.8	There's always going to be a few percent of individuals that will get sick despite the high protection, but we still see enormous
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