CDC Urges Universal Mask Wearing for First Time

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CDC Urges Universal Mask Wearing for First Time

As the United States faces a worsening surge of SARS-CoV-2 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has, for the first time during the almost year-long pandemic, urged Americans to wear face masks universally.

The recommendation — published on December 4 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — was highlighted as the first of 10 key strategies to mitigate the spread of the virus and to restore the American economy and community life.

The agency also reiterated the evidence supporting the following mitigation strategies, which it recommends to help reduce the surge:

  • Maintaining physical distance from other people and limiting in-person contacts

  • Avoiding nonessential indoor spaces and crowded outdoor spaces

  • Increasing testing to rapidly identify and isolate infected persons

  • Promptly identifying, quarantining, and testing close contacts of people known to have COVID-19

  • Safeguarding those people most at risk for severe illness or death from infection with SARS-CoV-2

  • Protecting essential workers by providing of adequate personal protective equipment and safe work practices

  • Postponing travel

  • Increasing room air ventilation and enhancing hand hygiene and environmental disinfection

  • Achieving widespread availability and high community coverage with effective COVID-19 vaccines

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