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Opinion: Every American should wear a face mask to defeat Covid-19

Let's go all-in against #Covid19 for the next eight weeks: a nationwide stay-at-home directive, ramp up face mask manufacturing capacity, and for now use makeshift face masks until ideal units…
People wearing masks walk through a sparsely populated Grand Central Terminal on March 16 in New York City.

To mask, or not to mask? That is the question.

And it needs an answer — YES — right away.

Look at photographs or video of people walking in the Czech Republic or Hong Kong, two countries where the Covid-19 epidemic appears to be contained, and almost everyone is wearing a face mask. In the United States, by contrast, only when they are out in public.

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