Everyone should wear face masks publicly , CDC now recommends

People should wear nonsurgical cloth face coverings once they leave publicly during the COVID-19 pandemic within the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended today (April 3)."Most people could just make something out of a particular material," President Donald Trump said at a press conference today. "It's very simple to try to to ." However, he added that "I won't be doing it personally. it is a recommendation."

Until now, the CDC had recommended that while health care workers and "people who have COVID-19 and are showing symptoms" should wear face masks, healthy people should don masks only taking care of somebody who was ill with the new coronavirus. the planet Health Organization (WHO) recommended an equivalent .

Under the new recommendation, healthy individuals are advised to wear mouth and nose face coverings — including homemade masks, scarves or bandanas — once they attend a public area, like the grocery or a pharmacy.

As before, the CDC doesn't recommend that the general public wear N95 respirators, which filter 95% of particles within the air. These masks are briefly supply, and that they should be reserved for health care workers who are exposed to the virus on a day to day , the CDC said. Nor should the general public wear surgical masks, which also are needed by healthcare workers, the CDC said.

Due to the limited supply, some health care workers are now reusing their N95 respirators, albeit these respirators are designed for single use only."[Surgical masks and N95 respirators] are critical supplies that has got to still be reserved for healthcare workers and other medical first responders," the CDC said.

Even with the N95 respirator off the table for the general public , there are still many options available. Live Science covered the efficacy of homemade masks, finding that they are not nearly as good as surgical masks, but still act as physical barriers against viral droplets.

If you wear a homemade cloth mask, scarf or bandana, remember to scrub your hands before you set it on, Adams said. Also, you ought to wash cloth masks after each use and to always put an equivalent side against your face, so you are not placing the surface , or the "contaminated side" against your mouth and nose, consistent with Anna Davies, a researcher at the University of Cambridge within the uk , whose research showed that surgical masks were 3 times simpler at blocking microorganisms compared with homemade face masks.

Davies also recommended removing the mask by the straps, therefore the wearer doesn't touch the contaminated part covering their face.

Now that the CDC is recommending face coverings for anyone going call at public, more people will undoubtedly begin wearing them. But the general public shouldn't let masks give them a false sense of security. The CDC still recommends that folks occupy least 6 feet (1.8 meters) faraway from others, and a few experts think that even more distance is required .