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Robert Redfield was totally misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus totally misquoted.

I spoke to him.

He said it was ridiculous.

He was talking about the flu and Corona coming together at the same time.

And Kuroda could be just some little flare ups that will take care of.

We're gonna knock it out, will knock it out fast.

But that's what he was referring to coming together at the same time.

And I think, rather than waiting idesk Dr Redfield to come up, say a couple of words just to straighten it out because he didn't say it was a big, big explosion.

The headline in The Washington Post was totally inaccurate.

The statement wasn't bad in the Post, but the headline was ridiculous, which is, as I say, that's fake news and CNN, its fake news like crazy, and they had just totally the rocks, which they knew.

They were asked to change it, and they wouldn't do that, and it was full.

So I'll ask Dr Redfield, who is in a real professional, to come up and explain, please.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr President.

I really do think it's important to clarify this is we build the confidence of the American people When I commented yesterday that there was a possibility of the fall winner, Uh, next fall and winter, it could be more difficult, difficult for complicated when we had to, respiratory illnesses circulated the same time influenza and the Corona virus 19.

But I think it's really important to emphasize what I didn't say.

I didn't say that this was going to be worse.

I said it was gonna be more complicate are more difficult and potentially complicated because we'll have flu and Corona virus circulating at the same time, I want to emphasize that we continue to build the nation's public health infrastructure to ensure that we have the capacity to stay in the containment mode.

Those have you heard me talk before?

I've told you that in January and February, up to February 27 28 this nation had 14 cases.

We were in the containment mode and then unfortunately, the virus overwhelmed where we got into so extreme in mitigation.

We are building that public health care capacity now to make sure that we stay in the containment mode for the upcoming fall in winter season.

So we will not need to resort to the kind of mitigation that we had to this spring.

I have confidence that our public health response of really case recognition that we've talked about isolation in contact racing, combined with our plans for increased surveillance, particularly for the most vulnerable, will be ineffective of public health strategy.

So our nation will be able to maintain itself in the containment mode again.

That will be supported by the American public's continued cooperation, obviously, in the areas of personal hygiene and the types of social distancing strategies that may be appropriate.

The key, uh uh, to my comments and the reason that I really wanted to stress them was to appeal to the American public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence.

One of the greatest tools we have is we go through the fall winter season that we're into is to get the American public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimized the impact of flu to be the co respiratory disease that we confront.

Thank you very much, Theo.

He was misquoted he was quoted, he said.

They could come together.

They didn't talk about that, and his whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot so that next fall we don't have such a big season of flu and we possibly won't.

But as you said, it's possible.

If the Corona even comes back and he doesn't know that it's going to a neither do it.

We spoke a great length, and I think the doctor will speak of You'd like to continue, but we may have some members and we're gonna put them out of Corona.

But we may have a big flu season, but that's different.

Flu is very different from Corona.

So Redfield, the Washington Post, which you did the interview with them, they quartered.

He was saying, There's a possibility that the assaults of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be much even more difficult than the one we just went through.

And when I've said this to others, they kind of put their head Bart, they don't understand what I mean.

We're going to have the flu epidemic and the Corona virus epidemic at the same time.

Is that what you said for the Washington Post.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say to you just a minute ago that the issue that I was talking about about being more difficult is that we're gonna have to viruses circulate the same time this spring that we just went through February.

We had a benefit of having the flu season ended so we could use all our flu surveillance systems to say Whoops.

This is Corona virus.

We need to focus next fall and and winter.

We're gonna have to viruses circulating, and we're gonna have to distinguish between which is flu and which is the Corona virus.

And so the comment that I made it's more difficult doesn't mean it's b'more.

Impossible doesn't mean it's going to be mawr, as some people have said.

Worse, it just made it more difficult because we have to distinguish between the two and what I was wanting to do.

And when I want to do again.

Here is a field of the American public to recognize that can really help, like they did with mitigation, which they really helped.

I need them to help now to best prepare us, but getting the flu vaccine and taking flew out of the picture way.

Accurate, right?

Certain vested from The Washington Post, you were accurately quoted correct.

I'm accurately quoted in The Washington Post as as difficult.

But the headline with the headline says CDC Director Warren Second Wave of Corona virus is likely to be even more devastating.

And isn't that what he said?

But if you have two things I don't I actually think it's actually gonna be.

I think the American public is going to heed the request to re look it.

They're vaccine hesitancy, the vaccine with confidence for flu.

And I'm confident that the public health infrastructure that we're putting together now across this country so that weakened early case tight diagnosed isolate and contact trace a Zeiss a block and tackle block and tackle.

That system is going to be there, and we're gonna be able to contain this fire.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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