. @GovRonDeSantis asked Dr. Bhattacharya about Fauci’s statements on masks, referring to a March interview in which Fauci said masks may make you feel protected, but people touch their faces and possibly increase infections.

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DeSantis: “All scientists were pretty much saying that. Now many say [it's] basically [a] mark of a good person, are you wearing it or not. It doesn’t seem like the underlying evidence has changed very much…

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"what is the average person [supposed to think] when they were literally tweeting at you ‘Don’t wear a mask,’ and [I don’t think] the explanation that we want to save them for healthcare workers… really flies because healthcare workers aren’t wearing cloth masks…

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"So something changed between March and probably about May or June; it doesn’t seem like there were any new RCT studies that had come out, though.”

Dr. Bhattacharya: “I agree; I haven’t seen a ton of evidence that suggests that…

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"I would have expected to see a lot more study about the kinds of masks people actually wear, and I haven’t really seen that… It would be a really good idea because that’s something the public health community is saying we should do to keep ourselves safe...

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"or keep others safe… Checking to see if the kinds of masks people actually use, not the kinds that we prescribe them to use, do they actually work? I don’t think I’ve seen any studies that suggest that the typical mask that people use,...

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"that they use and re-use, often without washing them or whatnot, are those effective? I think people like masks because intuitively you think, ‘I am giving droplets out to you that might have the virus, and so it’s got to provide some protection.’...

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"Intuitively, it might, but as a scientific matter, it’s still an open question whether they do or not. Often in science, we end up with results that are not intuitive; we’re surprised by the experimental results. I think this may be one area where…

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"you can probably hear my reticence to weigh in because I don’t know of a ton of studies that definitely say one way or the other on this, and that’s actually a problem. I think there ought to be more if we’re going to create this into this talisman...

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"that we have to wear in order to be a good person.”

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