Opinion | Ying Ma: America deserves coronavirus accountability — including from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx. - NBCNewsTHINK
to the outbreak, disagreed with the surgeon general and said wearing a mask was"definitely effective."
Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious diseases at Korea University College of Medicine, said mask-wearing by nearly everyone in South Korea was one of the reasons the country has had a relatively low rate of infection. "Why else would doctors in hospitals wear masks?" Kim asked rhetorically."They wear them because they prevent infection."
Similarly, the Czech Republic, which had a significantly lower rate of infection compared to fellow European countries such as Spain and Italy,advising all other countries to"implement population-wide use of face masks, even homemade ones." Adam Vojtěch, the Czech health minister, stated,"Today we see this was one of the most important decisions we have made, and if it helped here, it can help anywhere.
America's lack of protective equipment is indeed a crisis. But that was not what the public health officials were telling Americans, not really. You had to read between the lines to get to that conclusion. Much more directly,
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