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Andy Meek
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- Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's foremost infectious diseases expert, has addressed the about-face from health officials who said early on that the public shouldn't bother wearing face masks, as they couldn't guarantee to save you from the coronavirus.
- Now, of course, face masks are one piece of a multi-part strategy to limit transmission of the virus, along with social distancing measures.
- Fauci said that's because, early on, officials didn't want the public buying up all the masks that frontline health care workers needed.
On February 29, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams sent out the following tweet from his official Twitter account: "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
That tweet is still live and still searchable on the social network, which means it still presents anyone who finds it with a contradictory and dangerous piece of advice compared to the best practices we're all being urged to follow today. You know, the advice like how we're supposed to socially distance ourselves from other people when we're in public -- and, especially, to wear face masks. In fact, a study commissioned by the World Health Organization found that face masks of any kind can effectively reduce coronavirus transmission. Which begs the question: Why were health officials like Adams saying the opposite at the start of the coronavirus pandemic? Did they realize what they were telling us was wrong?
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Fauci explains why we were told not to bother with coronavirus face masks at first originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 17:04:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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