Posted by E Kofi Sakyiamah | Reference(s): Dr. Robert Redfield (Director, CDC), Bruce Japsen, forbes.com
Universal nationwide use of face masks could bring the spread of the Coronavirus strain Covid-19 under control within four to eight weeks, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
In an interview with the editor of JAMA, Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control is advocating all Americans wear masks and face coverings as a way to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The time is now,” Redfield told Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor of JAMA during the interview, which was live Tuesday afternoon. “The data is clearly there. Masking works.”
If the American public all embraced masking along with social distancing and hand-washing, Redfield said “we could bring this outbreak to its knees” within four to eight weeks.
The CDC first recommended that Americans wear face masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in early April but not all states have followed through and the Donald Trump White House hasn’t advocated that all Americans wear masks, further politicizing the issue. Trump earlier this month said he was “all for masks,” but that was considered a change in tune and he hadn’t urged the wearing of masks prior to that statement and Vice President Mike Pence has, too, sent conflicting messages on mask-wearing.
But cases of Covid-19 are surging to their highest levels since the outbreak with more than 60,000 infections being “diagnosed every day,” Redfield said Tuesday. There have been more than 3 million Americans infected with Covid-19.
Universal nationwide use of face masks could bring the spread of the Coronavirus strain Covid-19 under control within four to eight weeks, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
In an interview with the editor of JAMA, Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control is advocating all Americans wear masks and face coverings as a way to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The time is now,” Redfield told Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor of JAMA during the interview, which was live Tuesday afternoon. “The data is clearly there. Masking works.”
If the American public all embraced masking along with social distancing and hand-washing, Redfield said “we could bring this outbreak to its knees” within four to eight weeks.
The CDC first recommended that Americans wear face masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in early April but not all states have followed through and the Donald Trump White House hasn’t advocated that all Americans wear masks, further politicizing the issue. Trump earlier this month said he was “all for masks,” but that was considered a change in tune and he hadn’t urged the wearing of masks prior to that statement and Vice President Mike Pence has, too, sent conflicting messages on mask-wearing.
But cases of Covid-19 are surging to their highest levels since the outbreak with more than 60,000 infections being “diagnosed every day,” Redfield said Tuesday. There have been more than 3 million Americans infected with Covid-19.
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