WASHINGTON - The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention late on Friday revised its guidance for Americans on wearing masks, recommending wearing"the most protective mask you can", although the agency stopped short of calling for nationwide N95 usage.
The CDC said it wanted to encourage Americans to wear masks rather than push them to wear the highest grade face protection. It said the revised recommendations"reflect the science on masking, including what we have learned in the past two years". Some US N95 makers told Reuters they had record N95 sales after top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci recommended on CNN that Americans"get the highest quality mask that you can tolerate and that's available to you".
Masks remain polarising in the United States. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, this week again urged citizens to wear masks and noted that about one-third of Americans report they do not wear a mask at all. Many Republican-leaning states have no mask requirements while some liberal Democratic-controlled states like California have reimposed indoor mask mandates.
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