More is always better – I think to some extent it’s the American way. Now the philosophy seems to be playing into how we wear masks.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the unparalleled expert on everything to do with COVID-19, suggested Americans wear two masks instead of one. The scientific reason behind the buildup, he told Guthrie, is “it just makes sense” that two masks are “probably” better than one.
Following the natural arc of the doctor’s logic, it begs the question: Then why not more than two masks? Now we turn to CNBC correspondent Contessa Brewer, who picked up the mantle from there.
When she anchored Shep Smith, she said Americans should probably wear three masks, because as Fauci’s logic suggests, it’s better to wear three masks than to make just two face masks.
Here is the full CNBC report from former Fox News host Shep Smith and former CBS / MSNBC / NBC correspondent and host Contessa Brewer on the grandeur of not only double-masking but also three-masking.
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“The experts tell us that wearing masks is really about protecting ourselves and protecting others from ourselves if we are contagious,” Brewer told Smith. ‘But you know, if other people are not wearing their masks, or if they are wearing them incorrectly, we need to protect ourselves. So experts say you can double down with a mask with a firm fabric for extra protection. ”
“Now Virginia Tech researchers have found that doubling this cloth mask increases efficiency by 50% to 75%,” she added. “A three-layer mask can block up to 90% of the particles.”
One of the doctors behind the Tech study, Dr Monica Gandhi, tweeted on Tuesday that the “exact recommendation” is an N-95 mask, which is currently difficult to find on the public market. Instead, she suggests that people wear a surgical mask under a cloth mask or a double-layer cloth mask with a filter ‘like a vacuum bag’ between the layers. Eventually, however, she notes that it is only better to wear one, one-layer mask, than nothing more, and pointed out that wearing numerous masks is not really practical because it will cause your voice to be muffled and ‘u will pull it off. ”
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted the two-mask rule. On Tuesday, when she received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Harris wore two masks: a mask under surgery under a black cloth mask.
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It’s worth noting, as I did on Faithwire’s daily “4 & 3 Podcast,” that we have come a long way from what Fauci told Americans in March, that ‘people should not walk around in masks.’ , because it would not really do much of anything to protect them from the virus.
Fauci – as well as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – later changed their tune, saying that the previous message was intended to preserve the number of masks available to healthcare providers and first responders, and that it was not actually correct information. .
There is, of course, evidence to show that wearing face masks provides people with some protection and protects the vulnerable population from COVID-19.
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