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GOP Senator Implores Trump To Wear A Mask And Let COVID-19 Experts Do The Talking

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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Sen. (R-Tenn.), chair of the Senate health committee, implored President on Sunday to wear a mask “from time to time” and to leave health and medical recommendations to the experts.“I wish the president would wear a mask when it’s appropriate because millions of Americans admire him, and they would follow his lead,” Alexander, who is retiring at the end of this year, said on AdvertisementHis urging came as confirmed worldwide coronavirus cases The U.S. has the world’s highest virus death toll and on Friday reported an all-time high of 40,000 daily cases.“My suggestion to the president all along, and for the other political leaders, is let the experts do the talking about medicine. People trust them,” Alexander said when asked whether people should look to Trump for health advice.“If wearing a mask is important, and all of the experts tell us that it is in containing the disease in 2020, it would help if from time to time the president would wear one to help us get rid of this political debate that says, ‘If you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask. If you’re against Trump, you do,’” he said.AdvertisementThat partisan divide was on full display Sunday on political talk shows.Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Alex Azar, said the president and Vice President Mike Pence are exempt from having to wear masks because they are in a “unique position” in which they are tested for the virus regularly.“Anybody around them are tested that day. They’re leaders of the free world. They have very different circumstances than the rest of us,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, voiced the opposite stance.“The president should be (an) example. Real men wear masks. Be an example to the country, and wear the mask,” she said.Trump has repeatedly refused to wear a mask in public. “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it,” he while visiting a Ford Motor Co. plant in Michigan.AdvertisementTrump also former Vice President Joe Biden, for wearing a mask. A HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Sen. (R-Tenn.), chair of the Senate health committee, implored President on Sunday to wear a mask “from time to time” and to leave health and medical recommendations to the experts.“I wish the president would wear a mask when it’s appropriate because millions of Americans admire him, and they would follow his lead,” Alexander, who is retiring at the end of this year, said on AdvertisementHis urging came as confirmed worldwide coronavirus cases The U.S. has the world’s highest virus death toll and on Friday...

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