Republican former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says in a new national TV ad that he regrets not wearing a mask while at the White House earlier this year, which led to him landing in the hospital for a week in October with the coronavirus. Before contracting the virus, Christie attended an event introducing then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, at which it's believed several others contracted the virus, and also did debate prep with President Trump. Christie says in the ad: "This message isn't for everyone. It's for all those people who refuse to wear a mask. You know lying in isolation in ICU for seven days I thought about how wrong I was to remove my mask at the White House. Today, I think about how wrong it is to let mask wearing divide us, especially as we now know you're twice as likely to get Covid-19 if you don't wear a mask. Because if you don't do the right thing, we could all end up on the wrong side of history. Please wear a mask." CNN reported that the ad is being paid for by the family foundation of philanthropist Ray Chambers, a former New Jersey financier who's the ambassador for global strategy for the World Health Organization.
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