“It’s a mistake,” Scott Gottlieb, former FDA chief says, urging states to require face masks. “They’re losing precious time.'
As cases of coronavirus spike in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, more health officials are calling on those states to mandate the use of face masks in public.
But the three other states that have seen record-high spikes in daily cases of COVID-19 have not yet issued statewide mandates to wear masks in public, and that’s a problem, said Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. “It’s a mistake,” Gottlieb said Sunday on “Face the Nation” on CBS News. “They’re losing precious time I think they’re gonna have to [mandate masks].”
Collectively wearing masks is something we can do “to try reduce the spread. It’s really all we have and it’s not a very robust tool at that. But it’s a tool that we have [and] a tool has been demonstrated to have an impact if everyone does it, or most people do it,” Gottlieb said.
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