{"id":52016,"date":"2020-03-29T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52016"},"modified":"2020-03-29T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:16:21","slug":"cdc-to-recommend-all-americans-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52016","title":{"rendered":"CDC To Recommend ALL Americans Wear Masks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CDC To Recommend ALL Americans Wear Masks?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Matt McCarthy – Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell,staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic<\/em>– claims that the CDC is about to do a 180 degree change, and to recommend that everyone wear masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If true, such a change would be very<\/em> helpful.  Specifically, numerous studies show that “facemasks play a pivotal role in the prevention and control of infectious respiratory disease transmission<\/a>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, a study last year by scientists at the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, and the FDA’s Division of Applied Mechanics, showed that – if 80% of a population wears masks – it will stop a flu epidemic<\/a> (it “essentially eliminated the influenza outbreak”).   They found that if half of a population wore masks, it “resulted in a significant <\/em>… reduction in risk” (the typical flu virus is between 80 and 120 nanometers<\/a> in diameter. The Wuhan Coronavirus is 120 nanometers<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many other studies and metastudies show that masks are effective in combatting respiratory virus pandemics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n