(AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering the air. But they were in short supply previously, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials had said they should be prioritized for health care workers.
In updated guidance posted late Friday afternoon, CDC officials removed concerns related to supply shortages and more clearly said that properly fitted N95 and KN95 masks offer the most protection.
However, agency officials noted some masks are harder to tolerate than others, and urged people to choose good-fitting masks that they will wear consistently.
“Our main message continues to be that any mask is better than no mask,” Kristen Nordlund, a CDC spokeswoman, said in a statement.
The CDC has evolved its mask guidance throughout the pandemic.
In its last update, in September, CDC officials became more encouraging of disposable N95 masks, saying they could be used in certain situations if supplies were available. Examples included being near a lot of people for extended periods of time on a train, bus or airplane; taking care of someone in poor health; or being more susceptible to severe illness.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration was planning to make “high-quality masks,” including N95s, available for free. He said more details were coming next week. The federal government has a stockpile of more than 750 million N95 masks, the White House said.
The latest CDC guidance notes that there is a special category of “surgical N95” masks, that are specially designed for protection against blood splashes and other operating room hazards. Those are not generally available for sale to the public, and should continue to be reserved for health care workers, the agency said.
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Defund the CDC !!!
El Salvador distributes medical packages that includes Ivermectin for Covid patients and their families — while the CDC tell people to change their masks.
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Dear Sugarapple,
Please read…
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“We rate LifeSiteNews far-right biased for story selection that always favors evangelical Christianity and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and many failed fact checks.”
Regards
@Not An Antiguan Hater
Are you debating the accuracy of ANYTHING contained in those TWO sentences that Sugarapple wrote?
BTW Your fact checker, mediabiasfactcheck Has a LEFT WING BIAS
So, because a news site is “far right” they can’t write the truth? Did it ever occur to you that the left is hiding the truth? Since the left has decided to lie & suppress the truth of Ivermectins efficacy on covid, I’m left with what the “far right” writes about it. And, because I wouldn’t make medical decisions based on my political leanings, but instead, on actual evidence of Drs who are treating sick people and getting real results — I’ll continue to post whatever sites decides to write about them. In a state of emergency (pandemic), solutions should be the priority — not right/ left BS. By now, it should be patently obvious, that the left’s solutions to this problem have FAILED. What El Salvador is doing, works.
I refuse to be part of the Mass Formation.
https://8days.org/sucess-in-honduras
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