For the reopening of California to be done safely in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, there are three principle players who must do their part
“It’s the only way we get back to work — it’s to mask,” said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, chair of UC San Francisco’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. “All of the data tells us ... it’s pretty clear that masking is the element that changes the trajectories of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The message was: “‘They don’t work,’ when, in fact, what we meant to say was, ‘We don’t have enough masks. And we need to give them to people like healthcare workers,’” Bibbins-Domingo said. “That was a mistake.”“They’re both important — don’t get me wrong. If I had to choose one over another, ... I’d choose masks,” Dr. George Rutherford, a UC San Francisco epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert, said at a campus webinar in May.
The progression of disease is unlike that of the 1918 flu pandemic in the United States, where a first wave of cases in the spring passed and the rate of disease fell before a second, and far more deadly, wave of cases was observed in the fall.have suggested that more robust adoption of wearing face masks in public would substantially reduce the effects of a second wave.If only 25% of the public wear masks, the second wave is far more pronounced than the first.
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