U.S. Surgeon General on Mask Recommendation for the Public: Significant Number Have Asymptomatic Spread of the Virus

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ADAMS: “We actually recommend that people who have symptoms or people who think they may have the disease to wear a mask so they don’t spread it to others and the W.H.O., the CDC office all initially stated that. What’s changed? What changes we found that there are significant number of people who have asymptomatic spread of the virus, and so the CDC changes recommendations today and they now suggest that the general public consider wearing masks when they’re going out in public so as not to spread disease to other people particularly in situations where they may be closer than 6 feet from each other. One back a couple of really important points that I want you to know, number one this does not replace social distancing in the most important thing to do is to still stay home. If you’re going to wear a facial covering, please make sure you don’t touch your face and that you wash your hands and leave the n95 in the surgical masks to the health care professionals because they need them to take care of high risk patients. That’s what the CDC recommends, that works just fine to protect other people from you because we are all in this together. You wear a mask to protect me and I wear to protect you.”