{"id":235,"date":"2020-03-30T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=235"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:14:01","slug":"experts-increasingly-question-advice-against-widespread-use-of-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/30\/experts-increasingly-question-advice-against-widespread-use-of-face-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts increasingly question advice against widespread use of face masks."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the message from Western public health authorities has been pretty uniform in stating that the public at large shouldn\u2019t be wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19. Surgeon General Jerome Adams even sent an all-caps message to all Americans in late February imploring them to \u201cSTOP BUYING MASKS!\u201d because they are \u201cNOT effective\u201d for the general public. Experts, however, aren\u2019t so sure that\u2019s the case, particularly considering that health authorities in some Asian countries have been calling on everyone to wear face masks to prevent the virus from spreading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/03\/experts-question-advice-against-face-mask-use-coronavirus.html?fbclid=IwAR1Zyqi5TtJfmirZ4fGE7TjduldtMslalZZz6nguhdeKaN6hcDyxS9myB68\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Experts increasingly question advice against widespread use of face masks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/wearamask\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#wearamask<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the message from Western public health authorities has been pretty uniform in stating that the public at large shouldn\u2019t be wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19. Surgeon General Jerome Adams even sent an all-caps message to all Americans in late February imploring them to \u201cSTOP BUYING MASKS!\u201d &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/30\/experts-increasingly-question-advice-against-widespread-use-of-face-masks\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[84],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}