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

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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.
“The CDC is additionally advising simple cloth coverings to help people who may have the virus and do not know it keep from from transmitting to others,” said US Surgeon General Jerome Adams in a press conference at the White House today.
“The CDC is additionally advising simple cloth coverings to help people who may have the virus and do not know it keep from from transmitting to others”
When 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…

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