U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the entire Trump administration is supportive of facial coverings to stem the spread of COVID-19, although he stopped short of calling for a federal mandate to wear masks.
“I think we’re letting the politics and the policy get in the way of the actual practice,” Adams told “Fox & Friends” in an interview on July 20. “I want everybody to know that the science tells us right now that, with the high degree of asymptomatic spread—up to 50 percent of people are spreading coronavirus without knowing that they have it, that’s what asymptomatic or presymptomatic means—that face coverings are a way that we can reopen and that we can stay open.”
