For months, Americans have been told to wear a mask or cloth face covering in public settings. A face covering can prevent people who are asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19 from spreading the virus to other people.
But now new projections from the University of Cambridge illustrate how impactful the simple measure could be: Researchers found that that if 100% of people wore masks all the time in public, that, combined with lockdown measures, could prevent a second wave of Covid-19 from hitting during the 18 months that experts say it will take to get a vaccine to market.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/stu...d-prevent-or-lessen-second-covid-19-wave.html
But now new projections from the University of Cambridge illustrate how impactful the simple measure could be: Researchers found that that if 100% of people wore masks all the time in public, that, combined with lockdown measures, could prevent a second wave of Covid-19 from hitting during the 18 months that experts say it will take to get a vaccine to market.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/stu...d-prevent-or-lessen-second-covid-19-wave.html