“If people aren’t wearing masks, maybe we should make it mandatory,” NIAID director Anthony Fauci told CNN on Friday evening.
Why it’s important: Fawcett made the remarks on the same day the U.S. counted its highest daily COVID-19 case count since the epidemic began.
What he says: The infectious disease specialist said in September that the national mask order “probably won’t work”, citing difficulties in implementation.
He again told CNN on Friday that “it’s going to be difficult to enforce, but if everyone agrees that this is something important and they order it and everyone pulls together, you know, we’ll order it, but let’s Just do it, I think it would be a great idea to do it equally to everyone. “
- Fawcett added that the U.K. The country should move forward in a cold climate on steps like social distance by wearing a mask.
- “They seem very simple. But we’re not doing it uniformly and that’s one of the reasons we’re seeing this boom,” Fokey said.
Big picture: East VP J Biden has called for a national mask order and said such measures are needed to save thousands of lives.
- Trump, on the other hand, rarely wore a mask in public and often denied the usefulness of facial ingots.
Go deep: U.S. Using a universal mask in can save 130,000 people
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