'We're in contact with @CSiriano. Appreciate his help so much,' New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote on Twitter. 'Who's next.'
, saying that they do not recommend face masks for the general public.
“While it is cold and flu season, we don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks in the general public to prevent respiratory illness, and we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new virus,” said Dr. Nancy Messonier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
When healthy people buy up face masks they take them away from medical professionals who do need them. There is currently a worldwide shortage of face masks, and , that the U.S. has just 30 million stockpiled, and need ten times that — 300 million — to protect heath care workers.the federal government has said up to a billion masks might be needed over the next six months.is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication.
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