As Americans slowly woke up to the seriousness of the pandemic, and their own lack of preparedness, our media and government elites discouraged the general public from stocking up on masks in an effort to preserve supplies for health-care workers on the front lines.
On Fox News in early March, Adams told viewers that "You can actually increase your risk of getting a respiratory disease like coronavirus" if you wear a mask improperly.
New York City's official coronavirus guidelines instruct New Yorkers, who are at the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, that they "Do not need to wear a face mask if you are not feeling sick."
This advice, which is seemingly obvious, makes much more sense than the confusing message that ordinary people couldn't possibly figure out how to wear a mask properly, or that masks somehow only work when worn by health care providers.
"Studies have documented definitively that in controlled environments like airplanes, people with masks rarely infect others and rarely become infected themselves, while those without masks more easily infect others or become infected themselves," Howard writes.
Yes, U.S. health-care workers are short on masks and they desperately need them, and of course healthy people should not be stockpiling them, especially N95 masks.
On Monday, President Donald Trump said he could see a recommendation, proposed by former Food and Drug Administration head Scott Gottlieb, that all Americans wear masks.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/31/media-and-government-officials-told-americans-not-to-wear-masks-they-were-wrong/
On Fox News in early March, Adams told viewers that "You can actually increase your risk of getting a respiratory disease like coronavirus" if you wear a mask improperly.
New York City's official coronavirus guidelines instruct New Yorkers, who are at the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, that they "Do not need to wear a face mask if you are not feeling sick."
This advice, which is seemingly obvious, makes much more sense than the confusing message that ordinary people couldn't possibly figure out how to wear a mask properly, or that masks somehow only work when worn by health care providers.
"Studies have documented definitively that in controlled environments like airplanes, people with masks rarely infect others and rarely become infected themselves, while those without masks more easily infect others or become infected themselves," Howard writes.
Yes, U.S. health-care workers are short on masks and they desperately need them, and of course healthy people should not be stockpiling them, especially N95 masks.
On Monday, President Donald Trump said he could see a recommendation, proposed by former Food and Drug Administration head Scott Gottlieb, that all Americans wear masks.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/31/media-and-government-officials-told-americans-not-to-wear-masks-they-were-wrong/
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