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> “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” It seems to me
by thakoppno 5y ago
> “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”
It seems to me from this excerpt of his email to a colleague on February 5, 2020, Fauci really did not think masks were effective initially.
- larkost 5y agoThis was the medical community's censuses at the time. Turns out now we know that this hinged on a few misunderstandings and generalizations, and have turned that corner. But at the time it was the best information we had: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...