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(6 years ago)With increasing evidence, masks are helping prevent the transmission of the Coronavirus, even if an infected person has been wearing a mask is in close contact with others. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes that pandemic can be brought under control during four to [...]
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes pandemic can be brought under control over the next four to eight weeks if “we can all convince everyone to wear a mask now”. His comments, made Tuesday with the American Medical Association Journal, followed an editorial that he and others wrote, highlighting the abundant “asimtomatic spread projects and highlighting new studies showing how masks help reduce transmission.
The research Dr. Redfield included a recently published study suggesting that universal use of surgical masks helped reduce the levels of confirmed Covid-19 infections among healthcare workers at Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts, albinfo.ch.
His comments are still the clearest message from the CDC, amid fierce debate over facial masks, initially prompted by federal and global officials' messages about their necessity and later by those who stress individual freedoms.
