The U.S. is reviewing recommendations for wearing face masks and European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments
U.S. public-health authorities are reviewing recommendations for wearing face masks and a wave of European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments on a contentious issue in the coronavirus pandemic.
European countries have largely followed the guidance of the World Health Organization which has discouraged healthy people who aren’t hospital workers from wearing masks, saying there is no evidence it slows the spread of the new coronavirus. The U.S. Centers...
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