The White House is “actively exploring” whether to make higher quality masks like KN95 and N95s available to all Americans
, the administration’s Covid-19 coordinator said Wednesday, but though the omicron variant has made medical-grade masks more essential, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is so far not expected to advise that Americans should ditch their cloth masks for them....
Zients’ comments follow reports that the White House is considering a program to hand out better quality masks to any American who wants one, with PoliticoWednesday the agency will update the information on its website “soon” to “provide information” about different kinds of masks and the different levels of protection they provide, so that people can make a more informed decision about “what mask is right for them.
Walensky suggested the agency would not formally recommend that Americans wear N95s or KN95s and not wear other masks, however, saying it instead “want[s] to highlight that the best mask for you is the one you can wear comfortably.”
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