CDC recommends people wear cloth masks to block the spread of COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines today recommending that people in the US wear homemade face coverings to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“This is voluntary. I don’t think I’m going to be doing it,” President Trump said in a press conference today.

Since cases of COVID-19 were first reported in the US in January, the CDC said that only health care providers and people who are acutely ill should wear face masks. Health care providers use surgical masks and N95 respirators, which filter out tiny particles in the air, to protect themselves when they’re working closely with sick patients.

The White House task force and the CDC has been evaluating their mask recommendations over the...

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