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President Trump on Friday announcing
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that churches and other houses of
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worship should no longer need to abide
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by the same restrictions that have
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forced businesses across the country to
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close during this pandemic some
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governors have deemed to liquor stores
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and abortion clinics is essential but
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have left our churches and other houses
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of worship it's now right so I'm
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correcting this injustice and calling
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houses of worship essential
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I call upon governors to allow our
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churches and places of worship to open
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right now the president adding that if
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governors of those states won't let
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churches open he will override them so
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it's still not clear if he has the
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authority to do so joining us now Health
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and Human Services Secretary Alex azar
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secretary good morning thanks so much
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for being here and happy Memorial Day to
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you same to you Sandra and great to be
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with you and your viewers thanks
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absolutely it is Sunday morning Memorial
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Day weekend and millions of Americans
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across the country are waking up
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wondering if it is safe to return to
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their to their church or their place of
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worship this morning you tell them what
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well we believe it is as long as your
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church is taking appropriate precautions
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and we put out guidance to the to that
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effect you know my my church back in
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Indianapolis what are they doing there
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there they've got appointments you sign
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up so that they don't get overcrowded
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you get screened for temperature as well
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as symptoms as you come in you socially
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distance among family units in the
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church the church has been sanitized by
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the cleaning workers there so we can get
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back to work back to school and back to
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worship and safe ways because of
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president Trump's historic response here
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secretary is our it has been fascinating
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to see some of the accommodations that
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church is made even during the shutdown
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holding online services drive up
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services etc the CDC guidelines have
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been released we have some of them for
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you up on the screen while they are
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lengthy we we chose some of the most
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important ones of course that is making
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sanitizers and soaps handy for all the
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parishioners that enter the building
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wearing cloth masks keeping a high level
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of cleanliness social distancing of
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course and what struck me also was
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limiting
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the sharing of books and hymnals in pews
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and chairs that are made available you
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see the same thing with restaurants and
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in menus they're going to have one time
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menu so that you know people aren't
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using the same things in front of them
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the Washington Post this week was
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reporting that the reason for the delay
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in this guidance from the CDC on faith
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based operations was because there was
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disagreement between the CDC and the
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White House are both in agreement on
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those guidelines mr. secretary
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yes yes they are you know there's an
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iterative process that we engage in with
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CDC the White House and other parts of
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the interagency so just make sure
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whatever we put out is as good as
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possible you know it doesn't help a
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priest a pastor and a mom a rabbi much
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to get a 60 page single-spaced Public
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Health document that that goes through
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everything is if you have a master's in
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epidemiology so we we put information
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like that out also but we want to make
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sure we put actionable understandable
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information out to the leaders of faith
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communities but also our summer camp
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directors our school leaders and those
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who run small businesses so so it's just
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a process to make sure we're fitting our
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information to our audience I want to
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get to summer school and school in
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general in just a moment as well as
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those summer camps but first I want to
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take this big picture because the FDA
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Commissioner dr. Han this morning he put
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out a statement and he essentially said
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this virus is not contained yet and so
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while we understand that millions of
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Americans will be heading out to enjoy
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Memorial Day services and celebrations
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it is up to the individual to you as an
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American to protect yourself and limit
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the spread of this virus what is your
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message this morning mr. secretary well
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certainly I would endorse what dr. Han
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had to say there but I would also add
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that thanks to president Trump's and the
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our governor's historic response to this
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we have to and we can get back to work
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to school to community to engagement
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because it's not an issue of health
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versus our economy it's actually an
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issue of health versus health by being
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locked up in our homes there's very real
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health
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secuence is the social and economic
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dislocation leads to suicide and mental
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illness we have hundreds of thousands of
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fewer cancer screenings and treatments
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going on we have less preventive
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services millions of kids aren't getting
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their pediatric vaccinations those are
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real discernible immediate health
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consequences that have to be considered
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just as much as the spread of this
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disease has to be considered we have
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heard that warning from you secretary
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azar but now dr. Fauci who once said at
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a Capitol Hill hearing that he is only
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looking at the science and the medical
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side of things he is now putting out a
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new warning in a new interview sounding
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the alarm on shutting down and staying
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shut down for too long
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I'll throw his words up on the screen he
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said this we can't stay lockdown for
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such a considerable period of time that
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you might do irreparable damage and have
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unintended consequences included
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consequences for health perhaps is this
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a sign that dr. Falchi and others inside
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the administration that task force team
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itself might be seeing that some states
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are taking their lock down and shut down
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orders too far secretaries are well III
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think doctor foul cheese a perspective
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right there is very wise which is it
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requires balance you know we took the
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measures of shut down at the time
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because the president out of the
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circumstances those were the right
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measures to recommend but now now that
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we have the one of the world's best
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testing systems more testing going on
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than anywhere else in the world now that
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we have our state's really in the
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driver's seat with contact tracing
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testing and isolation of cases and and
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and seeking out and and containing
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various outbreaks we have the tools to
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get back up and running again in a safe
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smart way and we just can't stay
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lockdown forever as dr. Falchi said we
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hear you and I know there's many
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Americans who feel the same way about
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that while wanting to still be safe and
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stop the spread of this virus
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that being said we've heard a lot of
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that from President Trump and in a new
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interview speaking to Maria Bartiromo
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this week he not only sounds the alarm
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about staying closed too long but he
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also starts to point fingers and says
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that there's politics at play here
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here's the president your critics want
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you to keep it closed going into the
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election yeah I do I do I think it's a
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it's a political thing in addition I
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think you're putting money business
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ahead of lives no no I think the people
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that want to see the right thing
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happened they agree with me we have to
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get our country open secretary Hayes our
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our politics at play and if politics
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played any part in impeding your ability
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to keep the country safe well I don't
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want to get into any type of politics
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discussion but I'll tell you this Sandra
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I just had the pleasure of traveling on
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commercial airlines down to North
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Carolina and Florida this week North
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Carolina led by Democratic governor
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Cooper and Florida led by Republican
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Governor to Santos and in both states
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we're seeing reopening we're seeing
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reopening in safe ways the coca-cola 600
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is gonna run today NASCAR I got to see
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the precautions that they're taking at
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the Charlotte Speedway to make that
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happen I got to be in Florida at the
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Mayo Clinic to see how they're reopening
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to get elective procedures back up and
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running to do preventive care and make
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sure people are getting the health care
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they need and I just I think it's great
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to see how we're working closely with
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our governor's and and just helping to
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bring this country back again all right
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final thoughts because I just told our
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viewers had asked you about it and you
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asked parents anywhere in this country
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right now they're wondering about summer
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camps they're wondering about summer
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school and most importantly they're
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wondering about their kids returning to
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school in the fall what can you tell us
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about where you stand on whether or not
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that's gonna happen well first and
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foremost I would say to any parent judge
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your individual circumstances first are
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you your child or other household
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members particularly vulnerable or at
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risk because you've always got to be
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looking out to protect your household
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unit first in making these decisions
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then I'd say follow the guidance of your
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local leaders this is a locally lead
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state supervised federally supported
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we've put out guidance about schools and
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summer camps getting reopen and safe
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procedures to do so but as always your
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local and state leaders know the
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circumstances on the ground best follow
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their guidance but I hope that we'll be
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back at summer camp I hope we'll be back
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at school again there are ways to do it
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safely
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we don't have to be in our houses to be
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safe we can do this safely with the few
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seconds I have left as far as a vaccine
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you and I spoke earlier this week about
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that are you optimistic as the White
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House is that we could see one by end of
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year this is a very credible objective
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you know we just signed a deal with
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Astra Zeneca for the Oxford vaccine
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whereby October we could have a hundred
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million doses of vaccine and 300 million
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doses by early next year and we're gonna
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place multiple bets like this and and
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drive operation warp speed because the
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president Trump has said he demands that
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we reduce an efficiency in that system
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when we get these kind of results if at
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all possible
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secretary Hayes I really appreciate your
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time on this Memorial Day weekend thank
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you prepare your Sunday morning with us
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