Wearing masks or other face coverings is now recommended as one way of slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
The CDC recommended face coverings Friday after“The transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood,” President Trump said Friday when announcing the new advice at a White House briefing. “So you don’t seem to have symptoms and it still gets transferred.”acknowledged that government advice about masks had been “confusing to the American people.
Until now, the CDC has said that healthy people do not need a mask unless they are working in a healthcare setting or caring for an infected person. “The best available evidence” did not suggest that wearing a mask would do much to protect a healthy person from contractingWhat changed that thinking was a recognition that people were spreading the virus even when they seemed healthy.
One of those clusters began with two tourists from Wuhan, China, who visited a church when they arrived in Singapore on Jan. 19 and fell ill several days later. Three other people who attended the same church that day became sick over the next four to 15 days. One of those patients sat in the same seat as one of the tourists, according to closed-circuit camera footage of the church.
Now that it’s clear asymptomatic people are spreading the virus, U.S. health officials decided everyone should wear cloth face coverings in places such as grocery stores and pharmacies, Adams said. The masks will “help people who do have the virus and do not know it” by limiting their ability to transmit it to others, he said.
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