The science shows face masks work both to protect the wearer and others from coronavirus, and everyone needs to wear one around others in public, the CDC says. Even cloth face masks help enough to be worthwhile, 3 top CDC officials write in a commentary.
The science shows face masks work both to protect the wearer and to protect others from coronavirus, and everyone needs to wear one when around other people in public, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
Even cloth face masks help enough to be worthwhile, three top CDC officials said in a commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.While community use of face coverings has increased substantially, particularly in jurisdictions with mandatory orders, resistance continues," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC's chief medical officer Dr. John Brooks and Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Dr. Jay Butler said in a joint editorial.
At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials in the country were trying to make sure health care workers had enough personal protective equipment, including masks, as hospitals filled with Covid-19 patients."What got, I think, a little bit misrepresented in that message was not that it was just we wanted to preserve them, but they don't really work that well anyway," Fauci said in an interview with CNN on the Crooked Media podcast"America Dissected.
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