Dr. Anthony Fauci may have come around on the idea of a national mask mandate to slow the spread of coronavirus.
The top White House expert, who in recent weeks has downplayed the notion that the United States may need a national requirement calling on people to wear masks, appeared to show a measure of support for the approach during a CNN appearance on Friday. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has said that these laws could work on a local level and encouraged people to use facial coverings, but had said that the idea of a nationwide rule requiring them was not feasible.
But as the number of infections continues to rise and experts predict the upward trajectory to continue through the fall and winter months, Fauci said the time may have come.
“Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it,” Fauci told Erin Burnett during an appearance on Friday evening.
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