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Biden says masks will be sent by mail to prevent covid infections

2021-02-24T15:58:17.033Z


President Joe Biden said the White House will "probably" send face masks to people to prevent COVID-19 infections.


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(CNN) -

US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the White House "likely" will send face masks directly to Americans as the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.

It is a plan originally proposed by health officials during the Trump administration, but was blocked by the former president.

"We'll probably be shipping a lot of masks around the country very soon, millions of them," Biden said during a panel discussion with front-line black workers.

He said that the issue of masks became a political issue, which cost "many, many lives."

“We could have literally saved a lot of lives if people had listened.

We turn the use of masks into a political statement.

If they were in favor of this, they would use it, if we were for the other person, they would not use it, when in fact, it's just basic science, "said Biden.

The White House did not immediately respond to a CNN request for additional details.

Studies have shown, and Dr. Anthony Fauci has pointed this out many times: masks are the most effective way to protect yourself and others from the coronavirus infection that causes covid-19 disease.

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“Masks are a two-way street.

Masks protect you and me "by preventing the spread of drops and sprays that may contain the virus, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its guide on mask.

Biden has asked everyone to wear a mask when in public, and has made it mandatory on federal property.

Masks are required in public transport and at airports and transit stations.

Most states and some local governments have some type of mask mandate, and most retailers require shoppers to wear them in their stores.

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Shipping face masks to Americans

Earlier this month, White House Secretary General Ron Klain said the Biden administration hopes to resuscitate a proposal by the Trump administration to send masks directly to Americans.

"This was an idea that really came up last year in the Trump administration - public health agencies recommended it, President Trump vetoed it for some reason," Klain told NBC's Lester Holt on February 4.

We want to get this back.

I hope that in the next few days, or next week, we can announce some progress on this.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) had planned to distribute 650 million masks to the Trump administration last April, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN in September.

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A senior administration official told The Washington Post at the time that the plan was scrapped by the White House because some aides were concerned it could create "concern or panic."

Not all masks are the same, and it is unclear what type of masks would be shipped.

N95s are the gold standard for face masks because they block 95% of large and small particles using an electrostatic filter.

Cloth masks have the advantage of being washable and reusable: the more layers the better.

"If you wear a cloth mask, it should be a multi-layer mask so that you have multiple layers of potential protection for a single mask," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recently told Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta of CNN.

The CDC recently updated their guidance to suggest wearing a cloth mask over a disposable mask, like one of those blue surgical masks, as a way to add more protection.

New data from the CDC shows that placing a cloth mask over a disposable medical mask can block the escape of 92.5% of potentially infectious particles by creating a tighter fit and eliminating leaks.

Dr. Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently donned two face masks, one on top of the other.

- CNN's Theresa Waldrop contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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