The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested face masks may be “more guaranteed to protect me against Covid” than a vaccine. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Dr Robert Redfield described masks as “the most important, powerful public health tool we have.” His comments came one day after Trump said at an ABC News town hall, “A lot of people don’t want to wear masks. There are a lot of people think that masks are not good.”
Redfield also predicted a vaccine would not be widely available to the American public until “late second quarter, third quarter 2021.” The CDC director told senators, “If you’re asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, I think we’re probably looking at third -- late second quarter, third quarter 2021.” Trump claimed yesterday that a vaccine would be available within “weeks.”
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