> Politics have been getting in the way of Americans broadly adopting a crucial preventative health measure: Wearing a mask in public The experts got in the wa

> Politics have been getting in the way of Americans broadly adopting a crucial preventative health measure: Wearing a mask in public The experts got in the way. Fauci, the Surgeon General of the US, and the WHO all strongly discouraged masks for quite a while. Fauci finally admitted: “We were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply,” Fauci told The Street. "We wanted to make sure the people, namely, the healthcare workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in harm's way to take care of people who you know were infected with coronavirus, and the danger of them getting infected. We did not want them to be without the equipment they needed."