Americans Will Wear Masks For ‘Several Years’ Due To Coronavirus

By NY Post
Posted on 07/07/20 | News Source: MATZAV

Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, believes Americans won’t be taking off their masks anytime soon.

“There’s going to be no summertime lull with a big wave in the fall,” he said as part of CNET’s Hacking the Apocalypse series. “It’s clear that we are having a significant resurgence of cases in the summer, and they’ll get bigger. And it’ll keep going until we lock things down again.”

Toner, contrasting the novel virus to seasonal influenza, said until there is a vaccine, communities’ best defense against it is through creating distance and wearing masks.

“I think that mask wearing and some degree of social distancing, we will be living with — hopefully living with happily — for several years,” he said. “It’s actually pretty straightforward. If we cover our faces, and both you and anyone you’re interacting with are wearing a mask, the risk of transmission goes way down.”

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