{"id":604233,"date":"2021-07-27T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604233"},"modified":"2021-07-27T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:21:29","slug":"psaki-on-why-biden-previously-said-that-the-vaccinated-dont-need-masks-a-different-strain-of-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-on-why-biden-previously-said-that-the-vaccinated-dont-need-masks-a-different-strain-of-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki On Why Biden Previously Said That The Vaccinated Don\u2019t Need Masks: \u2018A Different Strain Of Virus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-on-why-biden-previously-said-that-the-vaccinated-dont-need-masks-a-different-strain-of-virus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JP-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki that President Joe Biden\u2019s previous remarks about vaccinated individuals not needing to wear masks was related to \u201ca very different strain of the virus\u201d than the Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki made the remarks in response to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asking why Biden previously said, \u201cIf you\u2019ve been fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Let me repeat: If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Peter, I think we\u2019re all dealing with an evolving virus where there\u2019s no playbook and no historic precedent. And what the American people should feel confident in is that we are going to continue to be guided by science, look at public health data in order to provide new guidance, if it\u2019s needed, to save lives, to protect the American people,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cWhen he made those comments back in May, we were dealing with a very different strain of the virus than we were \u2014 than we are today.&nbsp; And Delta is more transmissible.&nbsp; It\u2019s spreading much more quickly.&nbsp; It was nearly non-existent in the United States back in May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy later pushed Psaki about the issue again, asking \u201cif the vaccines work, which this sign says that they do, then why do people who had the vaccine need to now wear masks \u2014 the same as people who have not had it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the public health leaders in our administration have made the determination, based on data, that that is a way to make sure they\u2019re protected, their loved ones are protected,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cAnd that\u2019s an extra step, given the transmissibility of the virus, that people \u2014 that they\u2019re advising people to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jen Psaki holds White House press briefing | 7\/27\/21\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAeEDm2PyK8?start=1477&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"74\">\n<p><em>DOOCY: And then, on the CDC guidance, why did the President say, \u201cIf you\u2019ve been fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Let me repeat: If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask\u201d if it was possible that that was going to turn out not to be true?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: Well, Peter, I think we\u2019re all dealing with an evolving virus where there\u2019s no playbook and no historic precedent. And what the American people should feel confident in is that we are going to continue to be guided by science, look at public health data in order to provide new guidance, if it\u2019s needed, to save lives, to protect the American people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When he made those comments back in May, we were dealing with a very different strain of the virus than we were \u2014 than we are today.&nbsp; And Delta is more transmissible.&nbsp; It\u2019s spreading much more quickly.&nbsp; It was nearly non-existent in the United States back in May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: And so my last one would be: You guys have been saying this is a pandemic of the \u201cunvaccinated.\u201d&nbsp; If that is coming from the CDC, is the President satisfied with the leadership at the CDC right now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: The President is satisfied with the fact that they are continuing to look at public health data and give \u2014 provide public health guidance to the American public about how they can protect their lives and the lives of loved ones around them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: And if it\u2019s a pandemic of the unvaccinated still, then why do vaccinated people need to put the masks back on?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: Well, Peter, first of all, I would say again \u2014 just to go back to this chart, which I will handily point to again: If you are vaccinated \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: Overwhelmingly, the unvaccinated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: \u2014 if you are vaccinated, your li- \u2014 it can save your life. And I think the clear data shows that this pandemic is killing, is hospitalizing, is making people very sick who are not vaccinated. That co- \u2014 still continues to be the case, regardless of what the mask guidance looks like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DOOCY: But if the vaccines work, which this sign says that they do, then why do people who had the vaccine need to now wear masks \u2014 the same as people who have not had it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI:&nbsp; Because the public health leaders in our administration have made the determination, based on data, that that is a way to make sure they\u2019re protected, their loved ones are protected.&nbsp; And that\u2019s an extra step, given the transmissibility of the virus, that people \u2014 that they\u2019re advising people to take.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki that President Joe Biden\u2019s previous remarks about vaccinated individuals not needing to wear masks was related to \u201ca very different strain of the virus\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}