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We have everything we need--right now, today--to halt the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. and save over 200,00 lives between now and December. And it doesn't require an emergency vaccine or a medical breakthrough. ...
Multiple surveys have demonstrated that Americans do not trust Donald Trump to deliver a safe and effective vaccine. As a result, the percentage of people likely to take a vaccine over the first few months is likely to be far too low to halt the spread of COVID-19. ...
As CDC Director Robert Redfield points out, a vaccine is likely to be far from 100% effective. In fact, the FDA has suggested that it will approve vaccines with an effective rate as low as 50%, potentially making the vaccine literally a coin-toss. ...
Even if a safe, highly effective vaccine becomes available, it will take a period of months for this vaccine to be delivered first to front line workers, then to high risk candidates, then to the general public. It will be a slow process lasting well into 2021. ...
Even if the FDA were to approve a vaccine by Emergency Use Authorization today (which it should not do), vaccination alone is highly unlikely to common enough across the community to significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 for months after it rolls out. ...
But we already have a solution that is cheap, available, and works instantly: Masks. Masks are likely a primary factor in explaining why nations like Japan—which did everything wrong in terms of testing and case management—have a rate of deaths 55 TIMES LOWER than in the U.S. …
Unlike vaccines, masks do not generate even a small risk of adverse reactions. Flu vaccines may have a one in a million chance at a serious reaction; masks don’t. Everything you’ve heard about masks reducing oxygen or some other "risk" is bullshit. ...
Masks are all benefit with very little downside. They are here right now. And they can have an immediate, measurable impact.
The best time for a national mask mandate was months ago. The second best time is today.
The best time for a national mask mandate was months ago. The second best time is today.
Need some links to some of the things in this thread? They're all in here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/16/1977865/-CDC-director-acknowledges-that-masks-can-be-more-effective-than-vaccine-against-COVID-19?_=2020-09-16T09:42:50.966-07:00
