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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 4/26/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Washington, Congress, Government, Politics, President, Scarboro, Election, Brezinski, Ms Now, News, Issues, Giest, Campaign

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

President Biden’s approval remains strong at the 100-day mark, according to new polling.

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0:00.0

Very soon, imminently, in the next few days, very likely, the CDC will be coming out with

0:06.0

updating their guidelines of what people who are vaccinated can do, and even some who are not

0:12.8

vaccinated.

0:13.8

And certainly what one can do outdoors vis-a-vis masks is going to be one of those recommendations. You're going to be seeing people wanting to do things outdoors without masks.

0:24.7

And it's common sense to know that the risk when you are outdoors, which we have been saying

0:29.6

all along, is extremely low.

0:32.1

And if you are vaccinated, it's even lower.

0:34.5

So you're going to be hearing about those kinds of recommendations soon.

0:38.9

Dr. Anthony Fauci yesterday with that news on expected updated CDC guidelines on wearing a mask outdoors.

0:47.3

Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Monday, April 26th. With us, we have White House reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan

0:55.9

Lemire, professor at Princeton University, Eddie Glaw, Jr., staff writer at the Atlantic

1:02.4

magazine and author of the book, Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, and U.S. national editor

1:09.5

at the Financial Times, Ed Luce, joins us. And Joe, you, Dr. Scarborough was

1:15.2

possibly right. We'll see. I'm not a doctor. Dr. Scarborough. But I play one on TV. And usually,

1:22.5

that's bad news for anybody. All these guidelines will catch up with each other. Everyone's just

1:26.7

trying to do the best thing and keep people safe.

1:29.4

Well, you were hearing, you've been hearing from a lot of doctors we've had on regularly that have been advising caution since last March, that it really made no sense to have mask mandates for people outside who have been vaccinated.

1:47.9

And with us seeing it in the United States, seeing the rates of vaccination slow down a good bit, we're also still finding,

1:54.5

people are still getting COVID. And I've seen it. Jack's baseball league has been stopped because of a COVID outbreak.

2:05.5

So there are one case, yeah.

2:07.6

Yeah, there are other people who have gotten, yeah, for a case.

2:10.8

But there are other people who are still suffering with COVID.

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