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With cases of COVID-19 growing rapidly in the US and evidence mounting that the virus responsible, SARS-CoV-2, can be spread by infected people before they develop symptoms, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended April 3 that people wear cloth face coverings in public places This guidance is a shift from the center’s previous position that healthy people needed to wear masks only when caring for a sick person The recommendation also follows recent calls by experts on social media and other platforms for the general public to don nonmedical, cloth masks to help reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus “Members of the general public should wear non-medical fabric face masks when going out in public in one additional societal effort to slow the spread of the virus down,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tweeted March 29 These experts hope the View: PDF ;Full Text HTML
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